Business Analyst
Edinburgh
Business Analyst - 12 months - Outside IR35 Loriens leading Public sector client is undergoing a significant digital transformation and are looking for an agile business analyst to work within the Change and Digital Innovation area.You will have the following experience and skills:
Ability to work alone, quickly get up to speed, identify key stakeholders and form strong working collaborations cross-department
Ability to map current working processes across technologies, hardware, buildings; identify new working processes; and identify a route to achieve implementation of new processes including associated business change activities
Understanding, influencing and collaborating with stakeholders, users, the business, across departments and within and across teams to identify and define need
Leading understanding and definition of goals, benefits and needs, using a variety of techniques including facilitating single or multiple user research sessions and the analysis of data (quantitative and qualitative)
Using user story / process mapping, identifying and defining business benefit, value and metrics, roadmaps, epics, features, user stories, including splitting and refining work, and 'as is' and 'to be' states, generating documentation to a good quality and standard, including requirements / user stories
Supporting the adoption of agile ways of working and solution delivery at pace, coaching others in the team in agile business analysis mind set, tools and techniques
Delivering high quality results and decisions, within scrum cadence tight timescales whilst working under pressure and working with ambiguity
Have a proven track record with a minimum of 5 years' experience as an agile BA in software implementation or transformation projects, within multiple business contexts
You will:
Be able to work on your own and take ownership of your work stack
Be able to quickly develop strong collaborative relationships within the scrum team, the lab teams, within Digital Services and outwith to our users and stakeholders
Be able to understand and define both the big picture service design and be detail orientated
Be experienced in bringing about new ways of working
Strong capability in business impact assessments & analysis across multiple business streams
Be able to build a compelling value proposition associated with an epic, and define the metrics to demonstrate delivery of that value
Have excellent inter-personal skills, coupled with strong influencing abilities and a can do attitude to keep focused on delivering the right business outcome
Have some experience of UX and user research
Have a good knowledge of agile ways of working (particularly Scrum events)
Carbon60, Lorien & SRG - The Impellam Group STEM Portfolio are acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.