Senior Business Analyst - Coventry, United Kingdom - Coventry Building Society

Coventry Building Society
Coventry Building Society
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Coventry, United Kingdom

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About The Role

As a
Senior Business Analyst (Release Train) you will undertake the coordination lead for business analysis aligned to an Agile Release Train.

Working closely with the Release Train Engineer, you will have responsibility for supporting theapproach, other SBAs and BAs within the teams inside the release train and supporting critical assessment of activity and helping to shape and create the train level backlog alongside the Product Manager.


A core part of the role will be:

  • To work closely with all other train level roles to ensure the clarity of and alignment to delivery and maintenance of features aligned to corporate strategy and committed outcomes as set through increment planning activity.
  • Significant interaction with business stakeholders and third parties to help ensure customer and valuebased outcomes are captured in the release train backlog of work.
  • Supporting the product strategy and roadmap, with the ability to translate the stakeholder's vision of the product into the business needs and communicate it to the team members to make them understand the expectations
  • Working with all teams within the train, helping embed BAs and SBAs by ensuring their work is aligned to the train level objectives and the analysis work contributing to the team back logs is of sufficient quality to enable teams to develop effectivelyand commit to goals.
  • Supporting the Practice in the continuous improvement of Business Analysis within the product model at the Society, helping ensure that the Practice is leading the way in collaborative, effective, straightforward and highquality Business Analysis.

You'll be a Servant Leader

An authentic 'servant leader' who takes responsibility for enabling your team's success and achieving the Society's shared goals through the CIDO function, ahead of your own objectives.

Excellent stakeholder management skills with the ability to influence business decisions and command credibility at all levels, building and managing relationships across the Agile Release Train.

Able to maintain an understanding of the overarching business strategy and the impact that design decisions have on stakeholders and customer value outcomes.

Responsible for leading the feasibility and shaping of activities and features on the Release Train backlog and play a key role in keeping the product backlog prioritised and refined to plan the subsequent iterations and tasks for the next program increment.

Excellent at being a people developer and coach - demonstrable experience of building and developing high performing teams.
With great resilience you'll maintain energy and enthusiasm and embrace situations positively.

Emotional intelligence helps you understand your impact on others, always taking time to help others to operate at their best.

Constantly creating a culture of continuous improvement, learning from mistakes and use the experience to change how you and the team respond to similar situations in the future.


About You

Essential Requirements:


  • Strong understanding of principles, theories, practices associated with Agile methodologies.
  • Demonstrable experience in an agile / scrum environment with an appreciation for working within a scaled environment, championing agility and agile principles both upwards and into the wider business and through into their Agile Release Train
  • Experience in Design Thinking and eliciting business outcomes and converting them to use cases, epics, and user stories with acceptance criteria.
  • Extensive process improvement experience, including experience that leverages technology as part of the solution.
  • Solid experience with process redesign methods (such as business process re
- engineering or Six Sigma).

  • Knowledge of relevant business process standards (for example, Business Process Modelling Notation) and other business process analysis tools and methodologies.
  • Experience of understanding how to identify and resolve team impediments.
  • Advocacy for career paths and identifying development opportunities for members of your team; an ability to incubate and grow the talent pool.

Hours:
Mon to Fri 9am to 5pm
Hybrid Working

About The Company -#BetheChange
Coventry Building Society has grown into the second largest building society in the UK. Despite being a national Society, it keeps its local values and loyalty, and its caring family ethos.

The best way to judge a company is based on what the people who work there say and our recent employee survey has resulted in us being named as one of the UK's Best Workplaces for Wellbeing by Great Place to Work.

We offer not only fulfilling jobs and exciting career opportunities but a place where everyone can be long and feel proud to work.

What makes us such a rich and progressive place to work is the huge variety of people that make up our workforce.

And of course, we don't pretend that what you do for us is all there is to you.

We want you to bring your whole self to work - parent, carer, artist, triathlete, introvertwhatever it is that makes you YOU.

We offer the balance to make sure you have plentyof time to do the things you need or want to do alongside work, because we know that's how you are able to be your best
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