Lead Business Analyst - Digital Products

We are seeking a Lead Business Analyst - Digital Products to support our organisation in achieving its strategic objectives. As a Lead Business Analyst, you will identify business requirements and solutions that address business problems and opportunities.

Accountabilities:

• Identify and analyse business problems and client requirements that require change within the organisation.
• Develop business requirements that address business problems and opportunities.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to ensure proposed solutions meet their needs and expectations.
• Support the creation of business cases that justify investment in proposed solutions.
• Conduct feasibility studies to determine the viability of proposed solutions.
• Support the creation of reports on project progress to ensure proposed solutions are delivered on time and within budget.
• Create operational design and process design to ensure proposed solutions are delivered within the agreed scope.
• Support change management activities, including development of a traceability matrix to ensure proposed solutions are successfully implemented and embedded in the organisation.

Assistant Vice President Expectations:

• Advise and influence decision making, contribute to policy development, and take responsibility for operational effectiveness.
• Lead a team performing complex tasks, using well-developed professional knowledge and skills to deliver work that impacts the whole business function.
• Set objectives and coach employees in pursuit of those objectives, appraise performance relative to objectives, and determine reward outcomes.
• Demonstrate leadership behaviours to create an environment for colleagues to thrive and deliver to a consistently excellent standard.

Requirements:

• Demonstrated Business Evaluation experience delivering sophisticated, large-scale technology transformation.
• Demonstrated ability to elicit, evaluate, and document requirements using techniques including workshops, journey mapping, user stories, and process modelling.
• Ability to turn colleague and business needs into clear outcomes, problem statements, functional requirements, and value hypotheses that guide solution design and prioritization.
• Considerable collaboration skills, working with product owners, developers, solution architects, and other specialists.
• Excellent critical thinking and problem-solving skills, with the curiosity to question existing processes and identify opportunities for simplification, automation, AI, and continuous improvement.

Preferred Skills:

• Experience defining and measuring benefits, KPIs, and business outcomes to ensure solutions deliver demonstrable value.
• Experience with Agile delivery and collaboration tools such as Jira and Confluence.
• Familiarity with Microsoft Copilot, generative AI, automation, or other emerging technologies.

Salary: The minimum salary for this role is $115,000 and the maximum salary is $155,000 per year.

Benefits: Barclays employees are eligible for a suite of competitive and generous employee benefits, including medical, dental and vision coverage, 401(k), life insurance, and other paid leave for qualifying circumstances.