Senior Business Analyst

Join us as a Senior Business Analyst

The Role

To join our Technology division to provide information and system technology services to all business areas in the part of Central Services. Our key objective is to support the policy and operational divisions to meet the stated objectives.

The Technology Division structure is designed to reflect the delivery lifecycle for technology. New technologies and investments are planned and designed and then handed over to be built, maintained and run. All of this activity needs to be conducted in a way that ensures information and data is kept secure, for which a separate operating function has been created.

This role sits in TSA which is responsible for ensuring IT changes are aligned to business priority, and that the technical architecture is right. The team is now split into several towers, each intended to cover specific areas of the company (PRA, M&B etc.). Within each tower, there is a tower lead, and a number of Business Analysts and Architects (including Business Architects, Solution Architects, Data Architects etc.)

Responsibilities

• Oversee/support work prioritisation across the team/wider stakeholders, working closely with the PM, Tech Lead and Team Manager
• Help facilitate ceremonies (sprint planning, reviews, retrospectives) and ensure the tech team remain aligned with product objectives and timelines.
• Awareness of operating models (both current and target state) and how to develop and use them on projects / programmes
• Experience of working on complex projects and programmes involving broad-based business change
• Excellent stakeholder management at all levels; both internally and externally. Able to manage large groups of stakeholders, under uncertain environments, providing challenge as and when required
• Producing outputs at various levels (high level to functional specifications) to a high quality within the standards set by the BA management team
• Experience of providing both functional and technical expertise to the Technology teams in producing detailed requirements documentation (e.g. detailed process maps, use case specifications, wireframes, logical data models, traceability matrices)
• Proven experience of facilitating workshops with the business utilising a variety of business analysis methods

Essential Criteria

• Educated to degree level ISEB / BCS BA Diploma certified, IIBA certification (e.g. CBAP) or equivalent
• Solid career track record as a business analyst with strong exposure to technical / software development projects ideally within a financial or regulatory environment
• Proven experience working with agile/scrum methodologies
• Deep understanding of the Software development lifecycle and its application in an agile context
• Familiarity with tools like JIRA and Confluence for Agile project management and documentation

The applicant will need either to be security cleared or obtain security clearance