Agile Business Analyst - Edinburgh, United Kingdom - Lorien

Lorien

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Edinburgh, United Kingdom

1 week ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Agile Business Analyst

6 months - Outside IR35

Edinburgh - Hybrid

Our Public Sector client is taking on a significant digital transformation, brought about by its own ambitions, hastened by the current pandemic.

We are looking for an agile business analyst to work with our client on an initial 6-month contract.

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 qualityand standard, (inhouse LOAD methodology) 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 interpersonal 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)
Be able to use JIRA to manage own work