Senior Business Analyst

Carnival UK is the operating company for P&O Cruises & Cunard. We provide unforgettable holiday experiences and operate a winning culture to achieve standout success.

As we return to service, our Technology team has never been busier and are committed to driving and supporting business improvements and change.

An exciting opportunity has arisen within our Technology department for a highly capable Senior Business Analyst to join the team here at Carnival UK on a permanent basis.

The Role

As a Senior Business Analyst, you will be responsible for reducing risk in project delivery and maximizing the returns that Carnival UK (CUK) receives from its investments in change projects.

You will adopt a hybrid role of Senior Business Analyst/Product Owner working across multiple projects including a Robotic Process Automation (RPA) Centre of Excellence, Data Warehousing, Analytics and Data Risk Reduction within our Data Services team. CUK has embarked on an Agile transformation and now has multiple teams at different stages of maturity. The Senior Business Analyst will help support the next steps in our transformation journey and shift in ways of working.

The Senior Business Analyst leads analysis within projects and products, scoping and prioritizing requirements in collaboration with Scrum Masters, Product Managers, and development teams to drive and deliver change in support of our ambitious CUK plans. You will work closely with scrum teams and business stakeholders to support the design and build of RPA packages and data warehouses through user story mapping, data modelling and transformation to automate key business processes and provide data solutions to elicit business value and enable faster data–informed decision–making within the business.

You will be accountable for the management, quality, and coordination of your own workload in an agile delivery environment that involves working alongside both onshore and offshore development teams.

About You

We would expect you to have previous experience in performing Business Analysis or Product Owner activities within large, complex portfolios of delivery that include an IT component and agile ways of working (scrum and Kanban).

You will have strong previous experience working in a complex matrix environment establishing credible relationships with both technical and business stakeholders, with the ability to communicate technical information and engage in continuous discovery to understand and anticipate business needs.

You will have a sound understanding of industry Business Analysis or Product Owner standards, techniques, and their application in a change environment together with a strong level of data literacy, ideally being familiar with databases, data visualization products, and automation technologies.

You will be a people focused professional with a proven ability to work enthusiastically alongside technical and business SMEs in a matrix environment to support cross functional delivery. You'll have an analytical mindset to identify issues and problems and develop solutions, as well as progress multiple incentives simultaneously. You will be a natural collaborator with a 'can do' attitude and will naturally strive in a fast–paced environment with changing priorities.

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