Business Analyst

Manchester
January 22, 2024

Job Description


Job title: Business Analyst

Company: Yolk Recruitment

Job description: Business Analyst

Location:

Manchester

Sector:

Job type:

Salary:

£70000 – £80000 per annum

Contact:

Stephen Sutton

Email:

Stephen.Sutton@yolkrecruitment.com

Job ref:

BBBH34071

Published:

3 months ago

Expiry date:

17 January 2024

Start date:

asap

Business Analyst – Cloud Focus – Enhanced Clearance Required – UP TO £80k – 2 Stage Interview Process – Manchester – Cheltenham

Only Applicants with active clearance will be considered,

Yolk Recruitment are working with a Global Defence Company looking to grow their National Security division in the UK. They’re looking for an experienced Business analyst to join their Manchester office.

As Business Analyst you will work closely with stakeholders (internal & external) particularly during the initial phase of projects to gather requirements & assist the technical leadership in formulating workable technical solutions. To be successful you will need Strong experience working as a Business Analyst within a secure environment as well as strong understanding of Agile / Scrum process.

This role is based at their Manchester location & they offer flexible hybrid working dependent on the project needs. Active security clearance is essential for the role.

As a Business Analyst, you will;

  • Be deployed to work alongside delivery teams working in an agile manner to act as the key interface between the delivery teams and the core customers business.
  • Be responsible for building a mature understanding of the customer’s organisation to capture, manage, and facilitate sign off of business requirements for your core delivery area, developing an agile backlog of requirements.
  • To be achieved through leading / facilitation of key workshops, meetings, and interviews with a range of stakeholders from business users through to engineering leads capturing these requirements at both the business and technical levels.
  • Ensure these requirements are correctly translated into structured form such as use cases, functional requirements, and interface designs etc for delivery to be effectively undertaken.
  • Support the incremental delivery of the defined capability in accordance with the Agile methodology including using SAFe.
  • Work with the customer business to build a short term roadmap for the products you are supporting, articulating all associated risks and dependencies in order to drive the correct prioritisation of the captured requirements.
  • Support the Customer through the lifecycle of a product, understand product dependencies, and be able to adapted to the ever changing prioritises, analyse the impact of these changes on the current development roadmap.
  • Act as a proxy product owner where necessary to plan and prioritise work on behalf of the Customer.

Essential / experience

  • Knowledge of analytical techniques and methodologies to define business problems;
  • Experience of requirements capture and management
  • Strong verbal and written communications skills
  • Skills in influencing and negotiation methods and techniques
  • A good understanding of available and emerging IT technologies
  • An ability to understand how IT supports our customers’ requirements
  • Capable of dealing with conflicting priorities between different specialist groups within a fast paced Agile environment
  • Ability to communicate effectively at different levels within the organisation, including senior management, operations personnel and customers

Expected salary: £70000 – 80000 per year

Location: Manchester

Job date: Wed, 20 Dec 2023 07:13:58 GMT

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