FEI Systems is a company focused on creating innovative technology solutions to enhance health and human services. They are seeking a Business Analyst Team Lead to manage a team of analysts, ensuring effective communication between clients and technical resources while driving internal initiatives to successful completion.
Responsibilities:
- Lead and coordinate a team of Business Analysts supporting FEI’s Blue Compass product
- Direct and prioritize work for multiple Business Analysts across concurrent initiatives
- Provide day-to-day guidance, oversight, and mentoring to ensure consistent application of requirements standards and best practices
- Collaborate with the Behavioral Health Leadership team from a strategic perspective to support product vision:
- Maintain a cohesive, shared understanding of vision across delivery teams
- Ensure stakeholders remain informed and aligned
- Validate solution feasibility relative to business objectives and constraints
- Understand the role of the system within the broader enterprise landscape and provide recommendations regarding system evolution and initiative interdependencies
- Own and manage the BA team backlog in collaboration with Scrum Masters, Client Executives, Product Management, and Project Managers
- Ensure a single, prioritized backlog aligned to product vision, features, and Program Increment (PI) objectives
- Validate that user stories and acceptance criteria support intended business outcomes
- Participate in solution demos to confirm delivered functionality meets requirements and expectations
- Work with Release Management and QA leadership to prioritize product needs
- Define and communicate project constraints
- Identify areas of flexibility to optimize sequencing of deliverables
- Determine timing and sequencing of features and enhancements across iterations
- Provide delivery-stage oversight to ensure requirements fidelity
- Participate in iteration and PI ceremonies as an engaged and contributing team member
- Decompose features into well-defined, prioritized user stories and enablers
- Collaborate with system architects and engineering teams to understand, prioritize, and sequence technical enablers
- Participate in program backlog refinement and preparation for PI Planning events
- Coordinate cross-team dependencies and contribute to feature definition for future PI Planning cycles
- Work with Behavioral Health Leadership Team, Client Executives, Project Managers, and IT governance to support release planning and ensure required environments are available
- Participate in the Preliminary Project Planning activities including intake, refinement of project requests, and development of business cases and concept proposals
- Produce project feasibility and cost benefit analysis reports to support executive decision-making
- Transition initiatives from idea or concept through preliminary planning into chartered projects
- Assist with project scope definition and development of management or delivery plans
- Communicate requirements development and management processes to project teams and stakeholders
- Analyze business activities to determine whether new or enhanced IT solutions will improve outcomes or productivity
- Elicit, document, and validate current and future-state business models and workflows with subject matter experts
- Provide solution recommendations aligned with business needs and technical constraints
- Create and present cost specifications and impact analyses using appropriate analytical tools
- Identify and define initial performance measures to assess project success
- Deliver well-organized, informative presentations to technical and non-technical audiences
- Provide post-implementation support to validate outcomes and resolve outstanding gaps
- Attend internal staff meetings as requested
- Perform other duties as assigned
Requirements:
- 5+ years of experience as a Business Analyst, with demonstrated experience leading analysis efforts for complex initiatives or products
- At least three (3) years of experience working within the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), including requirements through implementation and validation
- Prior hands-on experience with the following domains: Requirements elicitation and definition, Requirements planning and management, Gap analysis, Requirements documentation, Requirements verification and validation, Conducting feasibility studies, Preparing business cases, Solution assessment and validation
- Experience leading day-to-day business analysis activities, including task assignment, prioritization, and peer review of deliverables
- Ability to communicate impediments, progress, and requirements across program, team, and customer contexts
- Strong coordination, organizational, and facilitation skills to manage cross-functional dependencies
- Technical foundation in IT process management, development, testing, project management and/or business analysis
- Solid understanding of current and emerging IT products, services, processes, and methodologies, along with a continuing understanding of business functions and processes
- Content authority to refine, prioritize, and accept requirements and user stories to deliver maximum value to the customer
- Enforce established processes for requirements gathering, development, and user acceptance testing (UAT)
- A Bachelor's Degree from an accredited college or university with a major in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, Business, or other related scientific or technical discipline or three (3) years of equivalent experience
- Working knowledge of the Business Analyst Book of Knowledge (BABOK)
- 5+ years of experience working within the SDLC
- 2-3 years in a Business Analyst Team Lead or senior BA role providing delivery leadership and mentoring
- Master's Degree from an accredited college or university with a major in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, Business, or other related scientific or technical discipline
- Prior knowledge in healthcare software or regulated industry environments
- Prior experience creating and maintaining use cases and workflow documentation supporting system design, configuration, or customization efforts
- Experience leading or supporting initiatives where SDLC, Waterfall, Agile, and Hybrid methodologies were employed
- Experience working closely with Product Owners, Project Managers, and technical leads to support estimation, planning, and backlog refinement
- Professional Business Analysis or related certification, such as: IIBA CBAP ®, CCBA ®, or ECBA ®, PMI‑PBA ®, Scrum Master (CSM, PSM) or equivalent Agile certification
- Equivalent certifications may be considered if the candidate demonstrates comparable business analysis competencies, experience level, and practical application aligned with recognized industry frameworks (e.g., BABOK®, Agile Practice Guide)