Business Analyst

Recruiter
Confidential
Location
United Kingdom
Salary
Competitive
Posted
03 Sep 2021
Closes
01 Oct 2021
Job Title
IT Director
Contract Type
Permanent
Hours
Full Time
Elevation Recruitment Group are please to be supporting a leading Professional Services business in York in their appointment of a highly analytical and Data Driven Business Analyst.

Working on a Hybrid basis the successful Business Analyst will play a key role in defining and analysing, functional and non–functional requirements translating them into detailed system requirements and technical design specifications for a range of Data Warehousing, Business Intelligence, Data modelling and Database design solutions. Working primarily on business change initiatives but contributing when needed with BAU support.

Duties & Responsibilities will include:

*Build strong productive relationships with the business, IT teams and external 3rd parties in order to deliver effective solutions based on a deep understanding of the business and technology
*Conduct requirements gathering sessions with various levels of the business & IT, ensuring that the Group IT strategic needs are being met while also realising incremental benefits for the business
*Produce high quality business analyst deliverables, such as user stories, acceptance criteria, functional & non–functional specifications, business cases etc
*Take full ownership of managing the product backlog of key systems on change initiatives
*Act as primary focus for questions related to business usage of systems within your sphere of influence
*Support the system and UAT test teams, helping with understanding of the change and reviewing test cases to ensure full coverage
*Support the on–going development of the Business Analyst function, developing standards, procedures, and knowledge transfer
*Design data lineage / data flows for the relevant interfaces and provide analysis of the existing and future data retention and security requirements that need to be adhered to
*Represent Group IT on change initiatives and ensure high business analysis standards are maintained

We are keen to speak with candidates with the following skills and experience:

*Demonstrable experience as a Business Analysis within a fast paced and dynamic environment
*Solution Design, Data Warehouse, Modelling and Business Intelligence experience
*Exposure to the full project life cycle, from inception to BAU handover
*Past experience in implementing new technologies or software
*Good experience of using Jira, Confluence, MS Teams or similar collaboration tools
*Experience and exposure to utilising process modelling software
*Experience with maintainable, extensible, high performance data warehouse application architectures
*Data mining capabilities
*Experience of data/system integration and a strong ability to identify dependencies
*Confident operating within an agile development processes
*Understanding and passion for data quality
*Exposure to large scale projects/programmes and working in a matrix environment with 3rd party suppliers
*Hold relevant industry qualifications (e.g. ISEB, PRINCE2)

To find out more about this opportunity contact us today

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