Business Analyst
Home Office Digital, Data and Technology - Manchester
Full-time (Permanent)
£37300 - £44191 per annum
Manchester
Manchester
Published on
12 November 2024
Deadline
26 November 2024
🚀 What you'll be doing 🚀
- Developing knowledge of key Business Analysis skills (e.g. requirements, engineering, workshops facilitation, process mapping etc) and understanding of BA resources/templates/best practice guidance.
- Developing breadth and depth of understanding of a variety of project approaches and software engineering lifecycles (e.g. agile, waterfall, incremental).
- Developing techniques and knowledge around developing acceptance criteria which are scenario-based within processes that support thorough testing.
- Understanding and defining the problem to be solved and ensuring strategic decision-making supports business outcomes as well as user needs.
- With support, identifying service and process improvement opportunities, contributing to the implementation of proposed solutions.
- Setting up and supporting workshops to enable requirements to be identified and clarified.
- Drafting requirements/user stories as required to support the delivery of features.
- Evidence gathering to support analysis of the business needs including user feedback sent in as the product progresses through its lifecycle.
- Supporting the production of periodic performance measures to inform stakeholders and drive discussion around the required service.
👀 About you 👀
You'll have a demonstrable passion for Business Analysis, with the following skills or some experience in:
- Analytical and problem-solving skills to help you assess and understand problems, break them down and devise and propose new solutions.
- Eliciting, analysing and validating subsets of business requirements before peer review from more senior business analysts, in the most appropriate and effective manner and format.
- Communicating in a variety of methods, knowledge of when to apply the appropriate method to each scenario/audience.
- Building strong relationships with a broad range of people from a varied background (technical and non-technical), and applying proven communication, and analytical skills to ensure the team's plans and objectives are achieved.
- Good interpersonal skills with the ability to understand, empathise, negotiate and influence individuals and groups.
- Working as a team player contributing ideas and innovation in a flat team structure.