Job Description

Contract Senior Business Analyst

Department: Services

Employment Type: Contract

Location: Remote, UK

Key Responsibilities

• Gather and manage backlog of requirements
• Prioritise and plan sprints
• Facilitate scrum ceremonies
• Remove impediments and support the team
• Bridge business and technical team

Skills, Knowledge and Expertise

• Previous experience as a client facing Senior Business Analyst across diverse sized projects.
• Confident in challenging assumptions and working with the customers’ Product Owners to define an PoC/MVP for a product.
• Ability to effectively structure backlogs to define a product using epics and features aligning both business needs and technical architecture.
• Ability to write clear, testable user stories using Gherkin acceptance criteria.
• Ability to lead Stand-ups, Retrospectives, Showcases, Planning Sessions, Iteration Planning Sessions and Project Discovery Sessions, and Backlog Refinement Sessions.
• Expert understanding of Scrum.
• Solid experience working in an Agile team to agree and develop system/product designs based on user requirements and specify these as user stories.
• Ability to create and sustain effective stakeholder relationships, across all levels.
• Strong modelling skills across the data, application and business process domains using standard modelling conventions (i.e. UML, BMPN, etc).
• Excellent written and verbal communication in English.