IT Business Analyst - Oil & Gas

Role Overview:

We are looking for experienced IT Business Analysts with strong exposure to the Oil & Gas industry. The selected professionals will work closely with business teams, technology stakeholders and implementation partners to understand business processes, gather requirements and support the delivery of technology-enabled solutions.

Key Responsibilities:

- Conduct workshops and discussions with business teams to understand their processes, challenges and technology aspirations.

- Gather, analyse and document business and functional requirements.

- Prepare BRDs, FSDs, process documents, user stories and acceptance criteria.

- Translate business requirements into clear functional specifications for technology teams.

- Obtain requirement and solution sign-offs from relevant business units.

- Participate in backlog refinement, sprint planning and sprint-grooming sessions.

- Provide functional clarification and domain expertise throughout the development lifecycle.

- Coordinate with business, development, testing and support teams.

- Assist with user acceptance testing, defect resolution and production releases.

- Conduct source-to-target, process and functional validation wherever applicable.

- Prepare user manuals, FAQs, process documents, system architecture documentation, data architecture documents and data-model descriptions.

- Conduct training sessions for client users on newly developed or enhanced solutions.

- Facilitate knowledge transfer between implementation and L2 support teams.

- Track market trends, emerging technologies, regulations and new business models relevant to the Oil & Gas industry.

- Support benchmarking exercises covering technology, processes, people, functional innovations and industry best practices.

- Coordinate with external agencies and statutory authorities when required for time-sensitive implementations.

Mandatory Skills and Experience:

- Minimum 3 years of experience as a Business Analyst.

- Minimum 2 years of direct experience in the Oil & Gas domain.

- Strong experience in requirement gathering and stakeholder workshops.

- Hands-on experience preparing BRDs, FSDs, user stories and functional documentation.

- Experience with Agile/Scrum delivery methodologies.

- Experience in sprint grooming, UAT, production releases and stakeholder sign-offs.

- Strong understanding of business-process mapping and gap analysis.

- Excellent stakeholder-management, presentation and communication skills.

- Ability to work from the Mumbai office five days a week.

Education - Mandatory:

Candidates must have either:

1. B.Tech in Computer Science/Information Technology; or

2. B.Tech in any other discipline along with a full-time MBA/PGDM.

Profiles that do not meet the mandatory education or Oil & Gas experience criteria will not be considered.

Preferred Skills:

- Understanding of downstream, upstream, retail-fuel or energy-sector business processes.

- Experience with digital-transformation or technology-modernisation projects.

- Knowledge of industry regulations and emerging Oil & Gas technology trends.

- Experience working in a consulting or client-facing environment.