Hybrid Senior Business Analyst

at Methods

• Job title: Senior Business Analyst
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Senior
• Salary: Not specified
• Degree requirement: Bachelor's Degree
• Tech skills: Azure
• Location requirements: Hybrid, London, United Kingdom

About the role

• Senior Business Analyst leading business analysis tasks in public sector transformations. Collaborating with multidisciplinary teams to deliver effective solutions in a hybrid work environment.

Responsibilities

• Analyse and understand complex user and business needs, including where material is conflicting and drawn from multiple sources
• Map complex processes and information flows into appropriate artefacts for communication with both stakeholders and the team
• Translate user needs into system functionality requirements
• Understand the internal and external situation and environment, eliciting and managing any non-functional requirements.
• Track, review and manage requirements with appropriate stakeholders to maintain records of traceability and prioritisation.
• Negotiate with and persuade stakeholders with a balanced consultative approach to ensure that the principles of user centred design are balanced against service requirements.
• Write clear and concise user stories with clear and testable acceptance criteria.
• Contributing to Methods Business Analysis Community of Practice and mentoring other business analysts

Requirements

• Extensive Business Analysis or relevant knowledge gained from recognised bodies (BCS, BABOK, Agile PO).
• Leading the analysis as part of a multi-disciplinary team.
• Demonstrably able to select the appropriate business modelling techniques that are most effective to help people understand the situations, problems, and solutions.
• Can recommend and influence improvements to business structures, processes and information flows supported appropriately with automation and technology.
• Breadth of effective techniques to define and manage requirements, prioritisation, and scope with others in a range of different types of change methodologies and situations.
• Defining or selecting standards and applying appropriate techniques to elicit and document requirements.
• Managing traceability of, change to and the refinement of requirements, identifying issues and omissions and managing escalations.
• Leading work that delivers effectively and efficiently in fast paced environments, in agile and waterfall project methodologies.
• Extensive experience of working in different project methodologies and awareness of how to adapt their practice.
• Excellent stakeholder management to understand objectives and resolve tension and conflict.
• Good problem solving and analytical skills, including the ability to create clear observations, analysis and conclusions based on customer interviews, published requirements and data.
• A confident written and verbal communicator.
• Pro-active approach to personal and professional development, and mentoring of others in Business Analysis Best practice
• Practical experience and knowledge of Lean practices.
• Systems Thinking.
• Understanding of public services and technology marketplace with knowledge of products, platforms and emerging technologies.
• Knowledge of Business Architecture (TOGAF, BIZBOK).
• Specialist knowledge in a business domain or other digital specialism.
• Specialist knowledge in security, data and privacy.
• Knowledge and understanding of GDS Service Standards.
• Knowledge and understanding of software development lifecycles.
• Experience in managing story development in tools such as JIRA, Azure DevOps or similar.
• Experience in collaborative and remote tooling (Teams, Slack, MIRO, Mural).
• Ability to understand complex financial issues combined with deep analytical skills.
• Experience of working in scrum environments with team definitions of ready and done.

Benefits

• Autonomy to develop and grow your skills and experience
• Be part of exciting project work that is making a difference in society
• Strong, inspiring, and thought-provoking leadership
• A supportive and collaborative environment
• access to LinkedIn Learning, a management development programme, and training
• 24/7 confidential employee assistance programme
• including home working and part time
• office parties, breakfast Tuesdays, monthly pizza Thursdays, Thirsty Thursdays, and commitment to charitable causes
• 25 days of annual leave a year, plus bank holidays, with the option to buy 5 extra days each year
• 2 paid days per year to volunteer in our local communities or within a charity organisation
• Salary Exchange Scheme with 4% employer contribution and 5% employee contribution
• based on company and individual performance
• of 4 times base salary
• which is non-contributory (spouse and dependants included)
• which is non-contributory (spouse and dependants included)
• Enhanced Maternity and Paternity Pay
• season ticket loan, cycle to work scheme