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About REA Group:In 1995, in a garage in Melbourne, Australia, REA Group was born from a simple question: “Can we change the way the world experiences property?”Could we? Yes. Are we done? Never.Fast forward 30 years, REA Group is a market leader in online real estate in three continents and continuing to grow rapidly across the globe. The secret to our growth is staying true to that ‘day one’ mindset; the hunger to innovate, the ambition to change the world, and the curiosity to reimagine the future.Our new Tech Center in Cyber City is dedicated to accelerating REA Group’s global technology delivery through relentless innovation. We’re looking for the best technologists, inventors and leaders in India to join us on this exciting new journey.If you’re excited by the prospect of creating something magical from scratch, then read on.The Lead Business Analyst supports the teams in the following ways:Production Support: Helping the squad monitoring for Business-as-Usual issues, performing initial analysis, creating defect cards and helping prioritize them in the backlog. Requirement Elicitation: Collaborating with business users to gather requirements and clearly articulate business needs and use cases from a diverse group of business stakeholders during Discovery phase working closely with the Design team and Product.High-Level Solution Analysis: Working closely with Tech Leads, Lead Dev, QA and Developers to analyze data and systems, develop high-level solution and identify impacts.Analyzing business processes: workflows and user journeys using advanced techniques such as process maps, value stream maps and story boards. Documentation: Translating business requirements into clear, concise, testable and accurate user stories; creating business process flows, diagrams and other visualizations as needed to assist in understanding functional requirements.Communication: Liaising with stakeholders, including Senior BA, Product Managers, Designers in Australia, Engineering Manager, Engineers and Quality Analysts, to ensure that requirements are understood through story kick offs and consistent communication applying a variety of analysis and visualization techniques to enhance joint understanding of processes, functions and data.Development Support: Collaborating with the squad team to provide guidance on how the requirements are implemented while addressing any requirement-related questions or issues that arise during the delivery process.RAIDD Registration: Recording RAIDD (Risks, Assumptions, Issues, Dependencies, and Decisions) documents and communicating any requirement dependencies, issues or risks identified through the analysis process.Backlog readiness: Building and maintaining the backlog to ensure that the squad has stories ready for development at least 2 sprints in advance. Backlog Prioritization & Refinement: Contributing to the team’s understanding and prioritization of work during sprint planning and backlog refinement Estimation: Participating in estimation sessions by describing the requirements and clarifying any questions raised.Team Ceremony Participation: Facilitating and actively participating in team ceremonies including but not limited to sprint planning, daily stand-ups, retrospectives, and showcase sessions. BA Guild Contribution: Contributing to the REA Business Analyst guilds, sharing knowledge, best practices, and insights with the BA community.Agile practices: Contributing to incremental team process improvement.What we’re looking for:A minimum of 6+ years of experience in IT and at least 3-year experience in a product development environment.Strong analytical and creative problem-solving abilities. Demonstrate a keen technical aptitude with the ability to quickly grasp new concepts and provide fresh insightsExcellent written and verbal communication skills, including proficient in running workshops and effectively communicate with delivery leads, product managers, developers and stakeholders across the organization.Technical familiarity with mobile and web technologies Experience in gathering and developing detailed functional requirements.Ability to understand and document technical requirements.Embrace changes and work productively in a fast-paced agile environment.Experience working in Product led organizations.Ability to manage the competing demands of multiple projects in a timely manner.Ability to work autonomously and with collaboration, with highly developed communication skills to both tech and business stakeholderAbility to work autonomously and with collaboration, with highly developed communication skills to both tech and business stakeholder.Have an action orientated approach to take initiative when issues / roadblocks arise, in order to keep the squad empowered to deliver.Experience with agile project methodologies.Business, Commerce or Technical degree, or equivalent industry experience.Ability to explore and understand the wider REA context, with a strong commitment to collaborative learning.Experience working in a distributed Agile team (desirable).Prior experience in mortgage or lending enablement will be a plus.What we offer: A hybrid and flexible approach to working.Transport options to help you get to and from work, including home pick-up and drop-off.Meals provided on site in our office.Flexible leave options including parental leave, family care leave and celebration leave.Insurances for you and your immediate family members.Programs to support mental, emotional, financial and physical health & wellbeing.Continuous learning and development opportunities to further your technical expertise.The values we live by:Our values are at the core of how we operate, treat each other, and make decisions. We believe that how we work is equally important as what we do to achieve our goals. This commitment is at the heart of everything we do, from the way we interact with colleagues to the way we serve our customers and communities. Our commitment to Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion: We are committed to providing a working environment that embraces and values diversity, equity and inclusion. We believe teams with diverse ideas and experiences are more creative, more effective and fuel disruptive thinking - be it cultural and ethnic backgrounds, gender identity, disability, age, sexual orientation, or any other identity or lived experience. We know diverse teams are critical to maintaining our success and driving new business opportunities. If you've got the skills, dedication and enthusiasm to learn but don't necessarily meet every single point on the job description, please still get in touch.REA Group in India:You might already recognize our logo. The REA brand does have an existing presence in India. In fact, we set up our new tech hub in Gurugram to be their neighbors! REA Group holds a controlling interest in REA India Pte. Ltd., operator of established brands , and , three of the country’s leading digital property marketplaces.Through our close connection to REA India, we’ve seen first-hand the incredible talent the country has to offer, and the huge opportunity to expand our global workforce. Our Cyber City Tech Centre is an extension of REA Group; a satellite office working directly with our Australia HQ on local projects and tech delivery.