Job Description

Job Location: LISBURN BT28 2LUThe Company
As climate change forces the world to change priorities, we’ve changed ours.   LoweConex, a division of Lowe Corporation, is a patented, award-winning, cloud-based IoT software platform and hardware solution offering innovative energy management techniques and cutting-edge automation protocols. Our technology is helping our customers reduce their environmental impact and meet energy reduction and carbon emission targets ahead of schedule.   
The Job
As a Senior Business Analyst, you are a key contributor to our continued growth and success. You are a senior participant and leader within the agile scrum development team. You collaborate with a range of stakeholders including customers and technology teams to understand the customer's technical and business environment. You balance technical challenges against requirements which bring real value to our customers.
Key responsibilities include:
- Lead discovery, storyboarding, prototyping, and business analysis activities within a high-performing technology team
- Partner with senior stakeholders to ensure agile best practices
- Gather project analysis metrics and data on; user stories, interface specifications, data mapping specifications, UI specifications, report specifications
- Review QA test strategy and test plans
- Partner with development and QA on solution assessment and validation
- Accurately represent the needs of internal and external customers
- Travel to UK and other global offices as required.

QualificationsEssential Skills & Experience
As a people-orientated organisation, candidates must demonstrate a strong match for our vibrant entrepreneurial culture and our core values; Listen, Empower, Innovate and Accomplish. The successful candidate must be a self-starter with an ability to prioritise and work autonomously in a fast-paced environment.
Candidates should also possess the following skills and experience:
Essential Criteria:
- Bachelor’s degree (or equivalent) in in a relevant field (or alternative experience)
- 3+ years' experience as a technical business analyst working on enterprise software applications, preferably in SaaS development
- Skilled at negotiating consensus among departments/teams that request conflicting or inconsistent software requirements
- Strong understanding of Agile methodologies
- Understanding of SQL and database management
- Thorough knowledge and experience of agile methodologies
- Proven analytical abilities and a self-starter attitude
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with an ability to translate data into actionable insights
- Ability to manage time effectively and work on tasks with competing priority
- Familiarity with HTML, XML, SOAP APIs, UX Design.
Desirable Criteria:
- Experience in connected devices / IoT solutions
- Knowledge of relational databases, XML, or programming languages
- Experience using Atlassian products (e.g. JIRA, Confluence).
Exceptional candidates who do not meet these criteria may be considered for the role provided they have the necessary skills and experience. Lowe is an equal opportunity employer and committed to a diverse workforce. We are incredibly selective in our hiring and shortlisting for this vacancy will be completed on the basis of merit. Candidates should tailor their CVs to reflect our essential criteria