Principal Business Analyst (Functional Design Lead)

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Role Purpose

The role is the senior functional authority for a product or product area, responsible for defining how capabilities should work end to end and ensuring that the resulting solution is coherent, effective and fit for purpose.

Working closely with Product Managers, Product Directors, Business Analysts, Engineering, Architecture, UX and other stakeholders, the role translates product strategy and business outcomes into high-level functional designs and Functional Requirements Documents (FRDs) that guide delivery.

The role sits between product intent and detailed delivery, owning the high-level functional design that connects the two. It does not primarily own detailed specifications or user stories; these are elaborated by Lead/Senior Business Analysts and Business Analysts but an active steering role in elaboration is expected.

During delivery, the role provides functional decision-making and design authority, resolving ambiguity, addressing cross-component conflicts and ensuring the product works coherently end to end from a functional perspective.

LSEG Risk Intelligence increasingly uses AI and LLM-based capabilities both within its products and across the software delivery lifecycle. Experience in AI-enabled product design or AI-assisted delivery would therefore be advantageous.

Key Responsibilities

Functional Design

• Define and own high-level functional designs, FRDs and component scope.

• Translate product goals into functional behaviours, boundaries, workflows and component interactions.

• Maintain a coherent end-to-end functional view across the product area.

• Identify dependencies, constraints, assumptions and integration points.

• Provide the design basis from which BAs and SBAs develop detailed specifications, stories and acceptance criteria.

Product and Solution Shaping

• Partner with Product Managers and Product Directors to shape capabilities and solutions.

• Challenge proposals where they create functional gaps, unnecessary complexity or adverse downstream impacts.

• Determine how product outcomes should be realised functionally.

• Assess cross-product impacts and contribute functional insight to prioritisation and roadmap decisions.

Functional Authority

• Act as the senior point of authority for functional questions.

• Lead and arbitrate cross-component functional decisions where requirements conflict, gaps emerge or delivery teams require clarification.

• Convene appropriate collaborators as an ad hoc functional design authority where required.

• Resolve ambiguity during development while maintaining alignment with the intended end-to-end design.

• Escalate significant product, architectural or business decisions where appropriate.

Delivery and End-to-End Coherence

• Provide functional direction and clarification to BAs, SBAs and engineering teams throughout delivery.

• Review detailed specifications to ensure alignment with the intended functional design.

• Participate in design reviews, refinement oversight and delivery governance.

• Identify inconsistencies across components, teams and requirements and drive resolution.

• Balance immediate delivery needs with longer-term product coherence and maintainability.

Leadership

• Provide functional leadership and guidance to Business Analysts and Senior Business Analysts.

• Mentor analysts and support development of functional analysis and design capability.

• Promote consistent approaches to functional design and decision-making.

• Where applicable, provide day-to-day leadership to a small analyst team while remaining primarily focused on functional ownership.

Skills and Experience

Essential

• Significant experience in business analysis, functional analysis, product analysis or a related field within complex software environments.

• Demonstrated experience defining high-level functional designs for complex or highly integrated products.

• Strong understanding of how software components and capabilities interact end to end.

• Ability to translate product strategy into clear functional direction.

• Experience making or facilitating decisions across multiple components and delivery teams.

• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, particularly where requirements are incomplete, conflicting or ambiguous.

• Ability to influence senior stakeholders and challenge proposed solutions constructively.

• Experience working across Product, Engineering, Architecture and Business Analysis.

Desirable

• Previous experience as a Lead, Senior or Principal Business Analyst.

• Experience with enterprise-scale, platform or highly integrated software products.

• Experience mentoring or leading analysts.

• Familiarity with Agile delivery and AI-enabled product development.

Success Measures

Success is demonstrated through:

• Clear and coherent functional designs that enable effective delivery.

• Strong alignment between product intent, detailed requirements and delivered functionality.

• Fewer functional gaps, conflicts and late-stage surprises.

• Faster resolution of cross-component functional decisions.

• Improved consistency of functional analysis across teams.

• A product that works coherently end to end rather than as a collection of individually delivered features.

Career Stage:

Manager

London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG) Information:

Join us and be part of a team that values innovation, quality, and continuous improvement. If you're ready to take your career to the next level and make a significant impact, we'd love to hear from you.

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