Role: Business Analyst
Experience: 8years
Location: Bradford, UK
Work mode: Hybrid
Job Description:
Note: Look for a BA with Water Utility exp.
Key Accountabilities:
- Lead Business Analysis activities on multiple change initiatives, delivering requirements specifications capable of being used to develop IT based services (bespoke software solutions, third party products and cloud-based solutions);
- Translating business needs into specific requirements including UI design; Data models; Business procedural changes and Interface designs
- Ensure thorough use of the Requirements Engineering model including elicitation, analysis, validation, documentation and traceability of requirements
- Use the appropriate elicitation techniques such as interviewing stakeholders, facilitating workshops, conducting surveys to capture requirements accurately
- Develop AS-IS and TO-BE business process models using defined standards, and use gap analysis to support delivery of any transition plans needed to reach the target situation
- Manage stakeholder communication at all levels
- Ensure that User Acceptance Testing takes place for all deliverables and support any associated testing activities
- Support the delivery of suitable solutions which meet business requirements
Preferred Skills
Essential:
- Ability to collect, evaluate and interpret information from multiple sources to identify and differentiate real user needs
- Strong analytical and reasoning abilities
- Ability to develop and maintain effective internal/external relationships at different levels within the organisation
- Some knowledge of application technologies and how best to exploit their use for business benefit
- Ability to prioritise and execute tasks in a dynamic and changing environment
- Strong organisational skills
- Possess a strong sense of purpose and proactively seek responsibility and ownership
- Creativity and lateral thinking
- Highly motivated and self-reliant with a personal drive for continuous development and able to demonstrate a strong customer service ethos, as well as a source of knowledge for others.
Desirable:
- Previous experience gained within the water or waste water sectors or within the broader utilities sectors
- Previous experience working on projects involving legacy platform replacement and data migration
- Professional qualification in Business Analysis (E.g. BCS Business Analysis certification / Diplomas, Lean Six Sigma)
- Professional qualification in Agile Methodology, ideally Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe)