Digital Business Analyst - Hybrid Working - Outside IR35

Lorien; City Of London; On-site; GBP 45,000 - 75,000; Full time

Job description

Digital Business Analyst - Hybrid Working - Outside IR35

Job Type: Contract/Temporary

Location: City of London, London

Negotiable

Job Ref: BBBH159413_1742402981

Date Added: March 19th, 2025

Consultant: Tom Vigors

Overview: Our client, a global Insurance broker, is currently looking to hire a Digital Business Analyst with Insurance sector experience to join the team on a hybrid working contract basis. This role would be Outside IR35.

In this role, you will be responsible for gathering, clarifying, and documenting requirements from various stakeholders, including business users, technology teams, and external partners. You will work closely with cross-functional teams to translate business requirements into deliveries, ensuring that the product meets the needs of our users and the business.

Key Accountabilities

Requirements Lifecycle

• Work with internal and insurer stakeholders to understand business requirements and translate them into business requirements.
• Document key business logic to support understanding of the requirements and provide a reference for the intended behavior or functionality.
• Break requirements down into the backlog as user stories and acceptance criteria.
• Work with the engineering team to estimate the effort/cost of requirements in support of client business case development.
• Refine the backlog collaboratively with the engineering team to ensure requirements are understood and uncover any gaps that need to be addressed to achieve the 'Definition of Ready'.
• Ensure sufficient requirements are refined prior to sprint planning to ensure engineering capacity is being used effectively.

Client and User Engagement

• Build trusted relationships with key clients and stakeholders.
• Communicate regularly with business stakeholders to gather feedback and discuss changes, new features or functionalities required.
• Keep stakeholders informed of the progress of new functionality and enhancements.
• Address any concerns or issues.
• Conduct user acceptance testing to ensure that the product meets the requirements and expectations of our customers.
• Update and maintain accurate release notes.
• Produce and provide supporting information and education with new functionality to all impacted user types to aid user understanding.

Team Management

• Participate in sprint planning, daily stand-ups, sprint reviews, and retrospectives to ensure that the team is aligned and working towards common goals.
• Work with the development team to ensure that user stories are properly groomed, estimated, and delivered within the agreed-upon sprint timelines.
• Act as a role model to drive a high-performance work environment focused on agreed deliverables.

Knowledge / Experience

• Proven experience of working as a business analyst through the whole lifecycle of projects from initiation to benefits realization.
• Experience of working in an Agile project environment.
• Experience with Agile tools such as Confluence, Azure DevOps, etc.
• Experience of planning and facilitating workshops and managing discussions with confidence and leadership.
• Previous experience of working in the insurance industry is advantageous, particularly in the London Market.

Skills / Behaviours

• Strong leadership qualities to bring clarity and guidance to the development team in a fast-moving environment.
• Ability to perform detailed analysis and apply creative problem solving to deliver efficient and effective solutions.
• Demonstrate the ability to elicit and articulate complex user and workflow requirements in a variety of ways to enable shared understanding across the development team.
• Strong written and spoken communication skills with the ability to influence others.
• Ability to build productive working relationships across the team and with key stakeholders.

Please apply!