Lead Business Process Analyst - 7027

??All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, religion, national origin, disability, veteran status, age, marital status, pregnancy, genetic information, or other legally protected status. Univest Financial Corp Lead Business Process Analyst US-PA-Souderton Job ID: 7027 Type: Full Time # of Openings: 1 Category: Operations Univest Financial Corporation Overview The Lead Business Process Analyst manages a team of Business Analysts and owns the quality of the practice's requirements and process work. This role is a working leader: someone who can personally facilitate complex process design and requirements discovery, then coach others to do the same. This is not a data or reporting analyst role; the focus is business process, requirements leadership, stakeholder facilitation, and delivery readiness. Responsibilities Provide day-to-day oversight, prioritization, workload coordination, and quality review for a team of Business Analysts while remaining hands-on for the practice's most complex or high-priority initiatives. Set and reinforce Business Analysis standards, templates, quality expectations, signoff requirements, and lifecycle gates across the team. Review project scope with sponsors and business owners to confirm objectives, outcomes, assumptions, dependencies, constraints, and ownership. Lead and coach the team through structured discovery, including gathering, documenting, validating, and prioritizing business and technical requirements. Own backlog readiness and refinement by sequencing work, closing gaps, confirming entry criteria, and keeping unclear or unapproved scope out of development. Review Business Analyst deliverables for clarity, completeness, traceability, testability, and alignment to approved business outcomes before work advances to development or testing. Partner with sponsors, business owners, Product or Platform Owners, Project Managers, Technology teams, and vendors to resolve ambiguity, confirm feasibility, and maintain delivery alignment. Ensure requirements, decisions, risks, dependencies, and changes are documented and traceable throughout the delivery lifecycle. Maintain requirements alignment through build, testing, and implementation by supporting technical clarification, test and user acceptance testing readiness, defect resolution, business signoff, and operational readiness. Lead stakeholder conversations View the full job description on the employer's website. Equal employment opportunity, including veterans and individuals with disabilities. PI287244089 / 13-1111.00 Management Analysts