Senior Senior Business Analyst
Posted Updated 1
view
Summary
A senior business analyst gathering and documenting business and technical requirements, writing user stories and acceptance criteria, and facilitating agile ceremonies for software delivery projects, ideally in a financial or regulatory setting. Key tools and methods include JIRA, Confluence, agile/scrum and BPMN 2.0 process modelling.
About the Role
Technical Skills & Responsibilities
- Educated to degree level ISEB / BCS BA Diploma certified, IIBA certification (e.g. CBAP) or equivalent
- Solid career track record as a business analyst with strong exposure to technical / software development projects ideally within a financial or regulatory environment
- Proven experience working with agile/scrum methodologies
- Deep understanding of the Software development lifecycle and its application in an agile context
- Familiarity with tools like JIRA and Confluence for Agile project management and documentation
- Capture, analyse and document business and technical requirements; write user stories and acceptance criteria; ensure alignment with the roadmap, sprints and delivery plans.
- Oversee/support work prioritisation across the team/wider stakeholders, working closely with the PM, Tech Lead and Team Manager
- Help facilitate ceremonies (sprint planning, reviews, retrospectives) and ensure the tech team remain aligned with product objectives and timelines.
- Awareness of operating models (both current and target state) and how to develop and use them on projects / programmes
- Experience of working on complex projects and programmes involving broad-based business change
- Excellent stakeholder management at all levels; both internally and externally. Able to manage large groups of stakeholders, under uncertain environments, providing challenge as and when required
- Producing outputs at various levels (high level to functional specifications) to a high quality within the standards set by the BA management team
- Experience of developing business processes using BPMN 2.0 and use of 'out of the box' thinking to challenge existing processes
- A proactive problem solver with the ability to exercise independent judgement and strong influencing skills , knowing when to act on any key issues that require escalation/support from the BA leadership team
- Experience of providing both functional and technical expertise to the Technology teams in producing detailed requirements documentation (e.g. detailed process maps, use case specifications, wireframes, logical data models, traceability matrices)
- Experience of managing complexity and change and an awareness of the associated technical impacts to the organisation
- Possess strong business insight, able to quickly pick up the context and business knowledge required, supporting the business through the requirements gathering, design and testing phases
- Proven experience of facilitating workshops with the business utilising a variety of business analysis methods
Desirable Experience (Desirable experience in two or more of the below areas)
- Awareness of business architecture and related principles
- Data Management (inclusive of data journeys, analysis, integration and migration)
- Supporting scaled Agile methodologies in Waterfall environments
- Certification in industry recognised delivery methods such as Agile, DevOps
- Understanding of Project Management - resource and time management