Senior Business Analyst
Dublin
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Negotiable
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Job Description
My Dublin based client is looking for an experienced Agile Business Analyst to join their team.
My Dublin based client is looking for an experienced Agile Business Analyst to join their team.
You will lead a team of business analysts, implementing and executing an effective business analysis methodology. You should be able to move seamlessly between waterfall, agile and bi-modal methods of project development.
Job Responsibilities
- Build a high level of trust and confidence with the business, strategic partners and of proposed solutions;
- Take a lead on requirement analysis and management activities within the Business Analysis team and Run meetings/workshops to drive out requirements ensuring solutions are comprehensive and of high quality to meet stakeholder requirements, incl. reviewing the Backlog & establishing MVP;
- Lead in the planning and monitoring of business analysis activities throughout the requirement process on medium and large projects;
- Lead Test analysis and Test management activities within the Scrum team. Run meetings/workshops to drive out testing requirements and ensure that solutions are tested comprehensively and of high quality to meet stakeholder requirements;
- Monitoring and managing outputs and taking preventative and corrective action where necessary;
- Contribute to project risk management to ensure that business delivery risks are captured;
- Drive process and delivery improvements, to ensure the continued development and enhancement of services provided;
- Build and develop relationships with internal and external stakeholders to ensure clients receive a high standard of business analysis service;
- Act as BA Subject Matter Expert providing coaching to others where required;
- Playing a key role/coordinator within the team and outside the team to drive improvements and change; and
- Strong documentation creation & management to all Organisational standards. Including, creating User Stories.
Experience Required
- IT Degree or equivalent, or strong relevant business or technical experience;
- Preferably 5+ years relevant business analysis experience;
- Proven ability to manage multi-disciplined client requirements and processes, across different system platforms with various integrated systems;
- Expert analytical, problem solving and decision-making skills;
- Expert organisational skills with the ability to prioritise across multiple tasks to tight timelines and to coordinate cross teamwork; and
- Expert communication, technical writing and influencing skills.
Essential and Desirable Skills
- Extensive experience of formal software development and process redesign methodologies;
- Delivering Cost – Benefit Analysis; Supporting long-term benefit tracking process; and
- Strong knowledge of Data Protection and GDPR in IT.
While the candidate must be committed to the principles of Agile, it is equally important that they can demonstrate real-world application.
