Lead Business Analyst

Summary

Join us as a Lead Business Analyst and elevate the business analysis function across the organization. You will oversee analysis efforts across multiple projects, lead and mentor a team of business analysts, establish business analysis standards, and collaborate with various stakeholders. This role requires strong agile software development understanding, proven team leadership skills, excellent communication, and proficiency with business analysis and project management tools. You will facilitate workshops, refine business needs, and support agile teams. The ideal candidate will identify opportunities to streamline processes and deliver better business outcomes. Shape what comes next!

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience in business analysis, with at least 2 years in a leadership role
• Strong understanding of agile software development (Scrum/Kanban), product lifecycle, and modern tech stacks
• Proven ability to build and lead a team, including coaching and performance management
• Excellent communication, facilitation, and stakeholder management skills across technical and non-technical audiences
• Ability to lead workshops, drive consensus, and influence decision-making at senior levels
• Proficiency with business analysis and project management tools
• Experience writing detailed documentation, user stories, process models, and acceptance criteria
• Fluency in both Lithuanian and English

Responsibilities

• Oversee the analysis effort across multiple projects, ensuring consistency, completeness, and traceability
• Lead and mentor a team of business analysts: define team goals, training plans, and performance metrics
• Establish and enforce business analysis standards, tools, and documentation practices
• Collaborate with project managers, developers, QA, and stakeholders to ensure clear, actionable requirements
• Facilitate workshops, interviews, and analysis sessions to elicit and refine business needs
• Support agile teams by maintaining high-quality user stories, acceptance criteria, and backlog grooming
• Partner with solution architects and developers to align solutions with business goals
• Identify opportunities to streamline processes, improve team efficiency, and deliver better business outcomes
• Provide regular reporting and insights into analysis progress, risks, and team performance

Benefits

• A working culture that is high performing, ambitious, collaborative and fun
• Health insurance and a yearly training budget (local and international conferences, language courses), employee-led workshops
• Flexible working hours
• Unlimited WFH (work from home) policy
• Extra vacation days: 2 after working at NFQ for two years and 4 after four years on our team
• Bonus for referrals
• For those who dream of traveling: WFA (work from anywhere) possibilities in NFQ - approved countries
• Office perks and team activities