Senior Business Analyst
Skills
Software DevelopmentAnalytical SkillsBusinessBusiness AnalysisDiagram DesignEmerging TechnologiesNegotiation
What the job involves
The main requirements, responsibilities and hiring steps.
Requirements
- Extensive business analysis experience or equivalent knowledge from recognised bodies such as BCS BABOK or Agile PO
- Experience leading analysis within a multidisciplinary team and selecting effective business modelling techniques
- Ability to recommend improvements to business structures processes and information flows using automation and technology
- Strong experience defining managing prioritising and scoping requirements across different change methodologies
- Ability to define or select standards and apply appropriate techniques to elicit and document requirements
- Experience managing traceability change and refinement of requirements including escalation of issues and omissions
- Experience delivering effectively in fast paced agile and waterfall environments and adapting practice to methodology
- Excellent stakeholder management with the ability to understand objectives and resolve tension and conflict
- Strong problem solving analytical written and verbal communication skills
- Pro-active approach to personal and professional development and mentoring other business analysts
Nice to have
- Lean practices
- Systems thinking
- Public services knowledge
- Business architecture
- Digital specialism
- Security data privacy
- GDS service standards
- Software development lifecycles
- API experience
- Data modelling
- Remote tooling
- Financial analysis
- Scrum experience
- Housing systems
Day to day
- Lead business analysis activities within multidisciplinary teams across agile and waterfall environments
- Analyse complex user and business needs and turn them into clear, testable requirements and user stories
- Map processes and information flows, manage stakeholders, and support transformation delivery with strong analytical insight