Business Analyst – Upstream Digital Transformation

About the role

EPAM is seeking a Business Analyst to join its Al Khobar office and work on upstream digital transformation projects for a leading global energy client. You will help modernise workflows, improve operational efficiency and enable data‑driven decision‑making across the organisation.

Key responsibilities

• Engage with SMEs, engineers and stakeholders to elicit and validate business requirements for upstream systems.
• Translate functional needs into user stories, use cases and acceptance criteria.
• Analyse and model current versus target workflows for multiple integrated systems.
• Define KPIs, reporting requirements and data attributes.
• Prepare business requirement documents, functional specifications and process diagrams.
• Maintain traceability of requirements throughout the delivery lifecycle.
• Support UAT by defining scenarios, preparing test cases and validating deliverables.
• Manage change requests, identify risks and ensure compliance with security and governance standards.

Required profile

• 5+ years of experience as a Business Analyst in Oil & Gas, Energy or large‑scale IT transformations.
• Strong knowledge of upstream processes such as permitting, tie‑in projects, technology approvals and facilities shutdowns.
• Familiarity with GIS systems, SAP integrations and enterprise workflows.

Required skills

• ARIS
• Business process modeling
• Enterprise workflow design
• SAP integrations
• Requirements management tools
• Java
• JIRA
• BPMN
• Angular
• GIS systems
• Oracle DB
• UML
• Confluence
• Azure DevOps