Business Analyst

Blend360

Business Analyst

Washington, DC +1 location
Full Time
Paid
  • Responsibilities

    Job Description

    1. Planning & Roadmap Ownership

    • Lead quarterly and annual NBA planning, consolidating inputs from business owners and aligning with organizational goals.

    • Define prioritization criteria (value, effort, feasibility) and facilitate prioritization forums with senior stakeholders.

    • Develop and maintain the NBA release calendar, sequencing launches and ensuring dependencies are tracked.

    • Socialize roadmap decisions, trade-offs, and pipeline changes with executive stakeholders.

    • Deliver executive-ready roadmap documentation, including a rolling three-quarter view of Pega NBA plans.

    2. Backend Alignment with NBA Roadmap

    • Map backend dependencies (data models, propensity models, eligibility services, segmentation attributes) to NBA releases.

    • Partner with data engineering and modeling teams to prioritize enabling capabilities that unblock future NBA use cases.

    • Validate alignment between backend data roadmap and NBA release pipeline.

    • Identify and escalate capability gaps that may delay or constrain NBA launches.

    • Produce dependency mapping and technical readiness assessments for each release.

    3. Pega Implementation & Delivery Governance

    • Manage the full lifecycle of NBA launches in PEGA, including intake, requirements gathering, dependency tracking, and delivery.

    • Capture business objectives, eligibility rules, channel needs, data requirements, and KPIs.

    • Develop detailed project plans and maintain timelines, identifying critical path items and cross-team dependencies.

    • Act as a bridge between business teams, the Pega core team, QA, data, and operations.

    • Lead sprint planning, backlog grooming, readiness gates (Definition of Ready/Done), and change control.

    • Own delivery governance, providing visibility into risks, blockers, and Go/No-Go decisions.

    • Publish regular status reports and communicate risks/issues with mitigation strategies.

    • Serve as the day-to-day Pega point of contact for stakeholders, managing intake and triaging Pega-related questions.

    • Ensure escalation paths and SLAs are clearly defined and adhered to.

  • Qualifications

    Qualifications

    Required Qualifications

    • 7+ years of Business Analyst experience with large-scale technology projects.

    • 4+ years working specifically with PEGA CDH/NBA programs in a BA, delivery, or roadmap ownership role.

    • Strong background in roadmap planning, governance, and intake/prioritization frameworks.

    • Expertise in aligning backend data capabilities with business and marketing roadmaps.

    • Proven experience managing end-to-end delivery lifecycle in Pega, including sprint planning, backlog management, and stakeholder communications.

    • Ability to function effectively as a conduit across business, data, and technical teams.

    • Strong stakeholder management and communication skills, with the ability to present roadmaps and prioritization outcomes to executives.

    Preferred Qualifications

    • Experience in Healthcare, Insurance, or Government verticals.

    • Familiarity with propensity modeling, segmentation attributes, and eligibility services.

    • Hands-on knowledge of Agile delivery methodologies, including Jira/Confluence or similar tools.

    • Experience working with distributed or offshore delivery teams.

  • Locations
    Washington, DC • New York, NY