Business Analyst

Job Title: Business Analyst

Location: D1, Onsite

Contract / Permanent: 6 Months, with further 6 months extension

Start date: Nov 2022

It is a mandatory requirement, that the Resource proposed has more than four years recent Business Analysis Experience including 2 years minimum of that time working as aBA in an Agile Project methodology environment.

Key Deliverables:

The candidate will be required to work on a number of different current and upcoming small changes and larger projects that are a various stage in their lifecycle, mainly within the ESMA Delivery Unit team but also on other teams. The BA will be required to produce some or all of the following deliverables

Refined product backlogs using AzDo to include Epics, Features and User Stories, in line with Agile best practice

Process flow diagrams of As-Is and To-Be processes

High Level and Detailed Requirements Documents covering both functional and non-functional requirements

Requirements Traceability Matrices

Key Experience/Competencies/Skillsets: The following Experience/Competencies/Skillsets are applicable to this Role.

i. Experience of working on several large and complex projects in a Business Analyst role that have been delivered using the Agile Methodology

ii. Experience of business analysis techniques particularly in the following areas:

a. Backlog refinement and backlog management

b. Requirements elicitation and management in an Agile environment (incl creation of Product Backlogs, writing user stories etc)

c. Business process analysis and modelling.

d. Workshop facilitation (including virtual and hybrid).

e. Producing detailed and accurate requirements specifications.

iii. Possessing well defined stakeholder management skills, including managing challenging stakeholders

iv. Having the following skills/competencies:

a. excellent interpersonal skills.

b. be comfortable working within a team environment.

c. be decisive, organized self-starters.

d. plan their work based on moving priorities, estimate their activities and deliver on commitments.

e. Identify the implications of the solution to be delivered.

f. consider other projects and initiatives - see the bigger picture.

g. a good understanding of formal project management processes

h. Comfortable to challenge constructively

i. Able to Identify and continuous improvement opportunities