Senior Business Analyst

Our client are a well established and growing ecommerce business.

They are now looking for a Senior BA to join the team.

The Senior Business Analyst role will work and liaise with business users, application developers, testers and project managers from the requirements gathering and design stages through to test and deployment. They will ensure the functionality being delivered meets the customer’s requirements and may also be involved in other related implementation activities such as helping the business deliver related business change.

The role will be the focal point of business requirements from the business and will be responsible for developing high level, often poorly defined requirements raised in business speak into well structured, technically considered user stories that are fully defined to the degree that they can enter the software development process. A minimum of 4 years Senior BA experience, as well as experience in different sectors and industries is strongly preferred for this dynamic role.

Requirements

• Gathering business requirements and understanding process (both current and future)
• Running client workshops to gather views and feedback on design concepts and functional designs
• Documenting detailed designs, typically using Agile user stories
• Building detailed knowledge of the business, processes and IT applications.
• Supporting the business through their acceptance testing of the software
• Delivering 'Train the trainer’ expert training, where required
• Working closely with IT delivery colleagues to provide a seamless and efficient service to the business
• Influencing the product roadmap from your client interactions and discussions
• Identifying issues and facilitating resolution
• To manage the IT aspects of project
• Undertake such tasks and duties as may be reasonably requested by your manager or other members of the management team.
• 'Right first time’ approach to requirements gathering, analysis and solution engineering
• Requirements prioritisation, in line with project deliverables
• Demonstrable use of BA tools and techniques - how successfully are the tools used?
• Suggesting and owning solutions or different approaches to work
• Does the BA strive to constantly improve and build BA tool kit?
• Does the BA apply lessons learned?
• Stakeholder satisfaction/feedback
• Acts as a role model to the rest of the team and constantly looks for ways to improve both self and the team
• Demonstrates clear understanding of project deliverables and subject matter
• High calibre communication and able to communicate to a broad range of stakeholders
• Excellent stakeholder engagement

Technical Knowledge

Industry Understanding & Involvement

Experience

Skills/Attributes

Relevant systems

Excel, Visio, D365, Jira, Confluence

Compliance & Legislation

Eg, Understanding of GDPR regulations

Excellent package on offer