Business Analyst Senior (Agile)

Location: Remote
IR35: In scope
Rate: 450-600 per day
Duration: 6 months +


We are looking for a highly motivated, experienced Senior Business Analyst to supplement the existing team and lead the analysis for IT-enabled business change projects.


To be effective you will be familiar with a range of digital / web services and solutions, ideally where open source and cloud technologies have been applied with Agile development methods. You will be an excellent communicator and be able to rationalise complex information to make it understandable for others to work with.


The successful candidate will have:

• A proven track record of Business Analysis throughout the project lifecycle; from eliciting user requirements that accurately capture user needs in formats tailored to suit the intended audience(s), to procurement, delivery and implementation of successful solutions / services;
• Experience of working as part of a team, in an Agile project environment with user experience teams, product owners, designers and developers to deliver new digital products and services;
• Experience of user-centred design practices (e.g. user roles, personas, user journeys, user stories, storyboards, prototyping, etc.);
• Experience of leading business analysis to understand end user needs (e.g. workshops, focus groups, interviews, etc.).
• Experience of analysing user research findings into service needs - to support the design and development of services;
• A sound analytical mind and able to clearly structure and effectively communicate high level and detailed business requirements;
• Strong business process modelling skills.
• Excellent interpersonal, communication and influencing skills - managing relationships at all levels with business and IT subject matter experts, internal and external stakeholders (such as members of the public and professional partners), and service / product suppliers;
• he ability to prioritise and manage workloads within tight timescales and budgetary constraints;
• An understanding of Agile principles and software development methodologies;
• Experience of mapping out 'as-is' and 'to-be' landscape and undertaking gap analysis;
• Experience in business change, rationalisation and transformation;
• Experience of writing user stories that have formed part of commercial tenders, and evaluation of tenders;
• Ability to work independently, proactively and with versatility in responding to changing circumstances;
• An eye for detail, excellent communication skills and be able to interrogate reported information and challenge sources where inconsistencies are found.
• Sound understanding of IT principles, to be able to knowledgeably assess the potential business impacts of a proposed technical solution.
• As an expert in the field, be willing and able to take on mentoring and upskilling activities of internal staff BA's who are more junior/less experienced, as a part of your project role.

It would be advantageous to also have:

• Experience of delivering to the Government Digital by Default Service Standard (GDS)
• Public Sector / Government experience
• An appreciation of the roles of Architecture, Software Engineering and Test functions within the project lifecycle.

BUSINESS ANALYST, BUSINESS ANALYSIS, CHANGE, BUSINESS CHANGE, GOVERNMENT, PUBLIC SECTOR, GDS, GOVERNMENT DIGITAL SERVICE

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