These are few career paths you can follow later on after reaching a position of BA. They are: 1. Project manager is a common route. After many years of filling up risks, issues, and project schedules, and knowing what it really takes to deliver to time/cost/quality, it is a logical move to manage projects. After some years, project managers may continue their development into program managers. 2. Generally one will come to this role after being a BA-Business process architect. You can say it is a logical profession. 3. Operations Head - Business Strategy Analyst who analyses the business need by analyzing their current products, services, process and operations, and recommends solution to improve the business. 4. A Business Analyst starting with Junior consultant, create a path towards Consultant, senior consultant and management consultant. 5. You can aim at becoming a Practice lead and be responsible for establishing the processes for business analysis activity in an organization and managing the BAs. 6. A Business Analyst starting a career as a Business analyst, and moving towards lead Business analyst, and a role of heading Business Analysis activities as an enterprise or Business Architect in an organizations. These are the options you can choose after you have attained a successful position as a BA.