About the role:

Experienced Business Analyst required to deliver business led technology and product development projects for our businesses.  This role will provide a key link in the day-to-day relationship between the product and business owners and our technology partners.

The successful candidate will be working to deliver projects for a wide range of product and business owners and across diverse digital platforms and interfaces. The right candidate will have the personality to engage with people from all parts of the organisation and elicit requirements with a high level of detail.

Key Responsibilities:

• Discovery and documentation of business requirements through active investigation with operational personnel and the senior management team.
• Managing the project prioritisation process against available development resource allocation to deliver on the priorities and objectives as set out by the senior management team.
• Creation of user stories suitable for Agile/Scrum development teams and the provision of written design and technical specifications for the development teams through the JIRA project tracking system.
• Working with our technology partner(s) on a day to day basis through the software development lifecycle to ensure their delivery matches the business/product owners requirements and goals.
• Tracking, reporting and communicating on project progress against plans and budgets to the business/product owners and senior management team.

Key Accountabilities:

• Ensuring that the products and functionality delivered meet the requirements of the business.
• Responsible for sprint release planning and UAT sign off before delivery.
• Full project lifecycle (conception to production).
• Delivering complete use cases with sufficient detail to complete the full software development lifecycle.
• Working with Business/Product Owners, Development teams and QA team to agree acceptance criteria for all user stories.
• Analysing and prioritising change requests as they are received.

Experience

Required

• 2-3 years’ experience as a Business Analyst / Project Manager in a digital business.
• Experience of writing Agile/Scrum user stories
• Experience of writing Acceptance criteria

Preferred

• Experience of Mobile Apps as well as Web applications
• Basic knowledge of Java, JavaScript, HTML, XML and CSS

Qualifications

University degree or equivalent experience