Technical Business Analyst

Technical Business Analyst

Agile / SDLC / UX

Manchester

2 Days a Month in Office

£40,000 - £50,000 (DOE)

Oscar Technology are partnering with a high-growth tech firm based in Manchester that is continuing to expand and is looking for another Technical Business Analyst to join the team.
Reporting to a Business Analyst Manager who operates as a chapter lead to a team of 18 Business Analysts, you will be working within a Squad, your role will involve a lot of classic BA work around requirements gathering with stakeholders but also speaking with technology partners to map APIs, plus partnering with the UX function to help map user journeys.
This role would be joining a squad developing a super powerful communications platform, so you will play a key role in helping the engineering team understand how to integrate this platform with partner products. Your requirements and User Stories will be organised into a Product backlog by the Product Owner. This role will be varied and challenging, particularly at a point when the firm are continuing to mature Agile practices, so you'll be awesome at getting buy-in from stakeholders on how Agile benefits them, but also helping to coach other team members on Scrum, where possible.

Career Development
Business Analysts have several career paths available to them at our client; over the next 12-18 months as the BA team expands, a layer of more Senior BA roles is expected to open up; they are possibilities to move towards Product Owner positions. They are developing new positions for Scrum Masters so for any Business Analysts who are interested in becoming a Scrum Master, this avenue is becoming an option too

Required experience

• At least 2 years of experience as a Business Analyst
• Strong SDLC knowledge, ideally able to talk tech with developers & help to map APIs for integration projects
• Experience in turning requirements into User Stories & breaking those down into EPICS
• Experience of Story Slicing
• Good knowledge of Scrum
• Good stakeholder management skills
• Excellent consensus-building skills

Nice to haves

CSPO or CSM qualifications
Experience in the telecoms sector

Salary & Benefits

• £40-50,000, with some flexibility to offer more for an exceptional candidate
• 10% performance-related bonus scheme
• Pension - 5% employees, 4% employers contribution
• Share save scheme
• Health care cover
• Flexible working - right now its 1-2 days a month in the office,
• 25 days holiday + BH

Oscar Associates (UK) Limited is acting as an Employment Agency in relation to this vacancy.

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