Business Analysis Capability Leader

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Business Analyst Capability Leader

The Business Analyst “BA” Capability Leader is a strategic and operational leader responsible for architecting and driving BA capability within the Digital Solutions group. The BA Capability Leader will lead and evolve the Business Analysis discipline within the firm’s Digital Solutions organization, ensuring a team strategy that proactively aligns with business objectives and 18-month rolling roadmaps.   This leader will ensure the BA function delivers high-quality, innovative, and standard-driven assurance solutions that support business objectives in an Agile SAFe environment.  This leader will create an environment where Business Analysis professionals thrive – combining technical excellence with a culture of continuous learning, collaboration, and innovation.  The ideal candidate will have deep experience building high-performing analysts who deliver high-quality requirements, streamlined processes, and rapid value realization across digital programs. This leader will create a team who can deliver complex enterprise engineering and low-code/no-code solutions, and foster a culture of technical excellence, agility and innovation. The role requires balancing hands-on technical credibility with strong leadership and people's development skills. The role demands visionary leadership, fostering a culture of collaboration, innovation, and continuous improvement, while building robust processes and accountability mechanisms that enable predictable, efficient, and high-quality delivery across all digital initiatives. The BA Capability Leader is accountable for achieving success metrics, setting discipline expectations, and holding the team to the highest standards of quality and delivery. This leader ensures BA teams operate with excellence in an Agile SAFe environment, driving consistency, efficiency, and automation within the BA practice to enable fast, accurate, scalable digital solutions aligned with creating high priority value for the firm. 

ESSENTIAL DUTIES:

Organizational and People Leadership

• Create and execute a comprehensive talent strategy for each discipline, ensuring optimal skill mix, clear roles, and progressive career paths to support enterprise BA needs and proactively align with 18-month rolling roadmaps.
• Support planning processes to understand business goals and align future BA goals and strategies
• Recruit, lead and mentor a diverse and high-performing team of BA with the right capability mix for the firm’s evolving portfolio. 
• Build and scale BA capabilities to support business growth, digital transformation, and modernization initiatives.
• Build and maintain BA competency frameworks and targeted training programs that drive excellence in Agile delivery and provide accelerated growth for early-career and mid-level professionals.
• Foster a collaborative, learning-oriented culture focused on innovation, quality, continuous improvement, curiosity, and peer mentoring are core expectations.
• Develop and execute structured career paths and training programs that accelerate growth for early-career and mid-level developers

Process and Standards Management

• Define and implement the BA strategy, standards, methodologies, and operating procedures across all product lines and technology platforms, ensuring alignment with the firm’s Digital Solutions vision and SAFe framework.
• Lead the adoption of modern BA tools, automation frameworks, and AI-driven testing solutions to enhance speed, accuracy, and scalability.
• Oversee the development and execution of automated test strategies covering functional, performance, and security testing.
• Continuously evaluate emerging technologies and industry trends to improve BA effectiveness and drive innovation.
• Define and implement the development capability strategy in partnership with Digital Solutions leadership, ensuring alignment with the SAFe operating model.
• Implement governance and quality control mechanisms to uphold high quality standards across products, projects, and programs
• Collaborate closely with other capability leaders, including Solution Architecture, Development, Business Analysis, Data, and Operations—to ensure end-to-end delivery efficiency, consistency, and quality.
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