Business Analyst

Business Analyst - 12 months - Outside IR35Loriens 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.