Business Analyst

Role: Business Analyst

Duration: 6 months rolling contract

Work location: London/ Hybrid (fortnightly visits to office in Staines upon Thames)

Outside IR35 Contract

Previous government experience preferred

Essential skills and experience

7 years hands on experience of gathering user requirements from a wide range of stakeholders

Proven experience of converting requirements into user stories

Proven experience of analysing existing systems and business processes and documenting these

Experience of developing TOMs

Able to act as the SME on user story production within the project team

Nicetohave skills and experience

Experience of coaching mentoring and where required leading other BAs

Experience of improving business processes in relation to the transfer of data between IT systems

Experience of the education sector

What we are looking for: The interview will consist of both behavioural questions which follow the STAR methodology based on your past experience (see interview tips below) as well as detailed technical interview across our main technology stack described below. Must have: - Proven hands on track record experience managing large cloud based infrastructure deployments via IaC on Azure via terraform. - Proven hands on track record experience managing VM deployments on Azure and via Ansible. - Proven hands on track record experience implementing CI / CD pipelines to build, package, deploy, test and promote to higher environments infrastructure as well as applications, preferably via ADO. - Detailed understanding of infrastructure main building blocks and design, how they all fit together and how to manage them via code. That includes Virtual Networks, Routing, DNS, NSGs, Identity Management, Firewall Setup, Security Policies, Secrets and Certificates management. - Experience with configuring SecOps tools, preferably SonarQube, Checkmarx, PMD and using pre commit hooks across git based repositories to support shift left approach on the organisation deliverables. - Ability to resolve complex problems and work collaboratively with multiple technical and non technical teams with different skill sets and backgrounds. - Last but certainly not least: Excellent verbal and written communication skills. Nice to have: - Experience with Linux and Windows System administration including OS patching, permissions management, security settings, ssh / RDP enablement, using debugging and tracing tools to triage common problems. - Experience with at least one market leading monitoring tool, understand how it operates, configured and managed.