Lead Technical Business Analyst

Aker Systems Limited; United Kingdom; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 80,000

Job description

Duties & Responsibilities

A UK Government Security Check (SC) clearance is required for this role. If you don’t hold SC clearance, we will support you to apply assuming you have lived and worked in the UK for a minimum of 5 years.

As a Technical Business Analyst working within our fast-paced client environments, you will lead the business, data and systems analysis activities for products and services, becoming a domain expert in your area. Working within Agile technical delivery teams, the role requires a combination of business analysis and technical analysis.

You will:

1. Lead the data and systems analysis activities within the project, identifying the business and technical requirements and acceptance criteria.
2. Conduct data analysis activities to identify detailed requirements including business transformation mappings.
3. Create technical User Stories, including task breakdown and be able to explain them to the technical delivery team.
4. Work with the Solution Architect to develop and document detailed User Stories for the project backlog – you will need to validate that the solution will meet the business requirements.
5. Work with the data consumers and internal teams to create specifications including detailed data definitions & mappings.
6. Take the lead on running workshops and data supplier engagement.
7. Formalise the results of data and systems analysis into structured documentation and obtain approval from the key stakeholders.
8. Form strong business relationships with suppliers and consumers of data.
9. Build out patterns and processes that can be repeated.
10. Manage the project backlog in Jira.
11. Be part of the technical Agile scrum team – actively contributing to other activities including testing and validation of the end results.

Core Competencies

1. The successful candidate will have a Bachelor's degree or greater.
2. The successful candidate will have at least 5 years of experience within a similar role - Technical Business Analyst, Technical Data Analyst, Product Business Analyst, Software Business Analyst.
3. Extensive experience with AWS S3.
4. Experience of working in an Agile delivery team.

You will have demonstrated the following competencies to the proficiency level appropriate to the seniority of the role:

1. Experience communicating to a varied range of stakeholders across both technology and the business, building strong relationships.
2. Skilled in collecting and interpreting data, analyzing results to identify patterns and trends in structured and unstructured data sets.
3. In-depth understanding of creating User Stories and functional specifications (incorporating functional, non-functional and data definitions).
4. Experience of working with data-oriented requirements, including a good understanding of data modeling, mapping, and workflow.
5. Able to apply suitable analytical approaches to requirements discovery, documentation, and solution delivery.
6. Experience running requirements workshops to elicit User Stories, Workflow Diagrams, etc.
7. Previous experience working within a data team on complex integration problems using public Cloud and messaging or streaming technology.