Senior Business Analyst - Data

Senior Business Analyst Data

We are News UK Technology: using technology to innovate and lead the global conversation on the future of media and storytelling. We keep people at the heart of our business through valuedriven and inclusive practices enabling our staff to grow and thrive. As such we are proud members of Tech Talent Charter UK with 34% of our Tech roles filled by gender minorities. News UK Tech is an awardwinning team winning Team of the Year at the UK Business and Innovation Awards 2023.

The Team: We are Data a programme that comprises a number of agile crossfunctional teams between London Sofia and Bangalore. We grow data platforms build frontend data products and create predictive AI models for News UK. We focus on the capture management and utilisation of customer clickstream and content data in order to drive growth and increase revenue for our users. Our users include the newsroom editors marketing advertising and product teams associated with our worldleading digital and print publications. From operations and infrastructure support to data technology and software development we are committed to finding creative solutions to deliver essential news around the globe. We believe that technology will always be a tool thats driven by human intent. With great opportunity comes great responsibility and as we continue to use data in more sophisticated ways we also provide the necessary governance processes to ensure its safe and proper usage.

Your Role: Were looking for a Senior Business Analyst to join us. Your primary focus will be working on our 1st party data warehouse and data sources a key component of our data landscape. As a senior member of the team we will also expect you to support as necessary other workstreams which span AI and consumer facing data products data collection and data governance; and as an experienced practitioner we are keen to harness your experience towards developing our data BA function through mentoring of more junior members of the team.

You will be central to understanding and bringing clarity to requirements from our diverse range of stakeholders and supporting their successful delivery using our suite of modern technologies including BigQuery and Google Cloud Platform. Working closely with our technical teams product managers and stakeholders you will build a shared understanding of requirements and their wider context ensure that there is fluent communication to help development to progress smoothly and maintain strong relationships between all throughout. You will make sure that backlogs are high quality and reflect business value. You will carry out indepth analysis on prioritised initiatives so that they can be broken down into clear epics and stories for prioritisation. And once work is delivered you will help the team to present it and highlight its value to both business and technology stakeholders.

Business Analysis plays a key role in ensuring that our data technologies meet the needs of our organisation and you will be very much a part of growing our capabilities using industry best practice and promoting good ways of working across our team. Part of your role will also include contributing to the wider BA community within News UK to help maintain the quality of our wider BA standards and practices.

Day to day you will:

• Working with your squad(s) and stakeholders elicit record manage and refine requirements for implementation.

• Using BA techniques data and other analytical approaches assess the feasibility and viability of requirements and overall solutions.

• Working with your squad(s) and stakeholders throughout implementation ensure that all involved remain aligned on scope requirements and progress and resolve any issues around this as they arise.

• Build and maintain fluent collaborative relationships with your squad(s) stakeholders and others in the Data team.

• Play an active role in our BA discipline both within the Data team and more broadly within News UK.

What were looking for from you:

Business Analysis

• Experience of business analysis within Agile environments.

• Experience of business analysis within digital data environments such as reporting and data visualisation datadriven applications or AI/data science.

• Can independently initiate and lead complex analysis and discovery activities.

• Can elicit analyse and manage requirements with their wider commercial context using techniques appropriate to the task and stakeholders.

• Can clearly document requirements analysis and solutions for technical architectural and business stakeholders.

• Can fluently facilitate conversations between technical and business stakeholders to outline potential solutions and prioritise options.

• Can oversee and mentor more junior colleagues.

• Can contribute to developing the BA discipline and best practice within the Data team and the wider News UK BA Community.

Data Technologies

• Experience of any of analytics datadriven applications AI/data science or recommendation/personalisation data products.

• Experience of cloud based data warehouses and architectures e.g. GCP.

• A solid understanding of data warehousing (data flows ETL data marts dimensional modelling) data quality/data accuracy data operation.

• Strong SQL skills and a good understanding of how to interrogate diverse data sources.

• Can analyse and interpret data to understand costbenefit and feasibility validate requirements and support prioritisation.

Collaboration and Communication

• Can build maintain and manage excellent relationships with business and technology stakeholders.

• Can fluently promote collaborative ways of working between business and technology stakeholders.

• Can work closely and collaboratively with product and project managers.

• Can clearly present technical and nontechnical material to business and technology audiences.

• Can confidently represent technology teams to the wider organisation for scoping and prioritisation discussions.

Agile Delivery

• Experience of the technology delivery lifecycle from inception through development to release and maintenance.

• Experience of delivery in agile/iterative environments such as SCRUM or Kanban including MVP and prototyping.

• Can independently lead delivery of projects.

• Can work closely with and support technical teams through development whether local or remote.

• Can manage own and teams work through evolving requirements and priorities by keeping a focus on wider business requirements.

• Can support the delivery of multiple initiatives by understanding the purpose and value of their delivery increments.

If you think you have what it takes but dont tick every requirement on the list please do apply. We recognise that considering someones potential as well as their experience is a great way to hire. We want to hear from people who have a passion to learn and develop.

We are News UK: One of the leading media businesses in the UK and Ireland. Our newsbrands include The Times The Sunday Times The Sun The Sun on Sunday and The TLS. Our national broadcast brands include talkSPORT Times Radio TalkTV and Virgin Radio UK and we have marketleading local radio stations across Ireland. Our worldfamous brands provide news analysis opinion and entertainment to almost 40 million people each month. Spanning print and pixel audio and video events and experiences our multiplatform brands are home to a plurality of opinion representing the diverse communities we serve. News UK is wholly owned by News Corp.

Life at News: Driven by passion guided by principles and acting with purpose. We represent reflect and reach the nation telling the stories that matter. We inform our audiences so that they can make decisions based on trusted information.

To do this we believe our employees must represent different backgrounds perspectives and experiences. We strive to maximise and encourage every individuals potential and ensure everyone feels valued. We support this through our Diversity Equity and Inclusion Strategy which focuses on three main priorities attracting talent from a wider more representative pool developing equity programmes to drive better representation in our leadership and ensuring diversity and inclusivity in our workforce as well as the journalism and content we produce. We also currently have 12 employee led networks and groups that support our strategy and connect like minded employees socially.