Principal Business Analyst

Role overview

Complex cross-domain analysis

• Scope major analysis initiatives by defining problems, scope, dependencies, approach, and BA capacity.
• Coordinate Domain Business Analysts through design and implementation.
• Maintain requirements coherence across domain boundaries.
• Lead requirements elicitation, feasibility analysis, options analysis, and senior-stakeholder recommendations.
• Manage stakeholder relationships and contribute to cross-domain UAT planning.
• Maintain analytical quality and act as the senior escalation point for ambiguous analysis problems.

Business architecture

• Serve as the primary BA contact for the Business Architect within the domain group.
• Ensure initiative work feeds current processes, organisational structures, systems, and data flows into the business architecture.
• Lead documentation of capability-level processes, structures, systems, and data flows.
• Support Business Decision Records and identify opportunities to simplify or unify processes.
• Validate alignment with the target architecture and domain model.

BA practice leadership

• Define and maintain BA methodology, standards, templates, artefacts, and shared vocabulary.
• Define the BA competency framework and progression model.
• Run the BA community of practice and address practice-wide skill gaps.
• Define requirements governance and UAT standards.
• Review BA outputs and coach Domain Business Analysts without direct line-management authority.

Required qualifications and experience

• Degree-level education or equivalent professional experience.
• Substantial business analysis experience in complex, multi-domain organisations.
• Experience leading complex analysis initiatives and coordinating multiple Business Analysts.
• Experience setting BA standards and methodology in distributed delivery environments.
• Experience working with enterprise or business architects.
• Strong senior stakeholder engagement experience.
• Coaching experience with junior or mid-career Business Analysts.
• Experience working across locations and time zones.

Preferred qualifications

• Business analysis certification such as BCS/ISEB or IIBA CBAP is desirable but not essential.
• Publishing, content, or platform business experience is advantageous.

Workplace

• The role uses a balanced working model with a minimum expectation of three in-person days per week.
• Candidates should live within commuting distance of the Bengaluru office.
• Remote or home working is available when colleagues are not working together in an office or other workplace.

Benefits

• Benefits include salary and bonus, annual leave, volunteering days, birthday leave, pension contributions, insurance coverage, social events, training, and remote-working equipment.