Business Analyst Lead

https://smart-analytica.com

Role Title: Business Analyst Lead (Data Specialist)

Company: Smart Analytica Location: Tower 1, World Trade Center, Kharadi, Pune

Work Arrangement: Full-time, In-Office

No. of Positions: 1 (One)

Experience: 3 - 5 years

Role Summary

We are hiring a Business Analyst Lead (Data Specialist) for our Data & AI delivery team.

You will lead requirement workshops, document what the business needs, and do hands-on data analysis to shape clear, buildable specs. You will work on real client AI projects (mostly on-prem) and help take dashboards, pipelines, and reports to go-live with clean documentation and smooth user sign-offs.

Key Engagement

• Requirement Elicitation & Workshops run discovery sessions, capture use cases, and agree success metrics.
• Documentation Ownership write BRD/FRD, user stories, data dictionaries, and acceptance criteria in simple language.
• Client Communication manage day-to-day queries, send weekly updates, and align stakeholders.
• Stakeholder Management work with business users, product, and engineering to resolve gaps and close decisions.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead discovery

  and write crisp,

  complete requirements

  (BRD/FRD, stories, acceptance criteria).
• Map processes (as-is/to-be) and

  create simple dashboard/report

  mockups for user review.

• Run data profiling with SQL

  ; share sample outputs and reconcile with business rules.
• Coordinate with data engineers and BI developers; review deliverables against specs.
• Prepare UAT plans, support user testing, capture defects, and drive sign-off.
• Keep documentation current in Confluence; send weekly status and decisions log.

Tech Skills

• SQL & Data Analysis write queries for profiling, validation, and sample extracts; good Excel skills.
• Reporting/Dashboarding work with Power BI/Tableau/Looker; define wireframes and validate outputs.
• Data Basics – source-to-target mapping, simple data models (star/snowflake), data quality checks and lineage awareness.
• Nice to Have – basic Python/Pandas for quick checks; Jira/Confluence and Git basics.

Business Skills

• Business Analysis – convert needs into clear stories and process flows (as-is / to-be).
• UAT Readiness – prepare test scenarios, acceptance criteria, and support sign-offs.
• KPIs & Metrics – define what to measure (adoption, data quality, performance) with the client.

Other Skills

• Basic Project Management – maintain backlog, track status, note risks/issues (RAID), and support sprint planning.
• Ready to Travel – short domestic visits for workshops and go-lives.

Education

B.E./B.Tech/MCA or MBA (IT/Analytics) or equivalent experience in Data/Analytics and AI.

How to Apply Email your rsum to hiring@smart-analytica.com with subject “Business Analyst Lead (Data Specialist) – ”.