Agile Business Analyst
- Recruiter
- Hays IT
- Location
- Winchester
- Salary
- Competitive
- Posted
- 05 Jun 2018
- Closes
- 19 Jun 2018
- Sectors
- Accountancy
- Contract Type
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full Time
Agile Business Analyst - Fareham - 47,000-58,000 Agile Business Analysis involves understanding user and business needs, breaking those needs out into constituent parts, analysing multiple solutions and supporting the communication and delivery of a solution to meet the user needs. Analytical thinking, problem-solving and communication skills are core to effective business analysis. Agile Business Analysts carry out a wide range of activities. These responsibilities include: * Lead and manage investigations into business processes, functions, information flows, data structures and software development processes, using various methodical and consistent techniques. * Define improvements to business processes, while evaluating potential solutions based on the impacts across the organisation. * Lead, understand and communicate the big picture while working to assure the overall goal is maintained in creation of the product backlog, in addition to working at a detailed level during sprints and iterations. * Lead in providing solutions to real business problems through influence, facilitation and communication. * Define scope whilst shaping and challenging business priorities and value through collaboration. * Elicit requirements using appropriate techniques, taking into account the nature of change and established practices. * Deliver at pace using agile methodologies and principles. * Responsible for the creation of requirements documentation to required standards. Use appropriate modelling techniques, considering requirement management and traceability ensuring traceability back to source, adherence to business objectives and their fitness for purpose. * Assist decision makers in gathering information to make informed decisions. * Promote a culture of assurance and security. * Help to quality assure test solutions and products. * Actively participate in the Business Analysis community and broarder communities to refine and develop standards, working practices and sharing of knowledge and understanding. * Line management of Business Analysts within the DST community. Essential Skills * Extensive and demonstrable experience of business and systems analysis working on at least 2 large agile, project based environments, including identification of business benefits, deconstructing user needs, business process modelling, requirements capture, prioritisation, facilitation, challenging business perspectives, sharing best practices and improving team processes and delivery and co-ordinating and leading other teams. * Extensive experiences of requirements capture using use cases / user stories / product backlogs / sprint backlogs / story maps / Impact Mapping etc. * Expert in requirements elicitation, using an extensive range of techniques. * Experience of guiding and mentoring other team colleagues in collaboration with others during requirements gathering. * It is essential that you have/can demonstrate the skills and experience as detailed in the attached role profile (at the end of the advert). Desirable qualifications BCS(ISEB) diploma in Business analysis and Solutions Development. What you need to do now If you're interested in this role, click 'apply now' to forward an up-to-date copy of your CV, or call us now. If this job isn't quite right for you but you are looking for a new position, please contact us for a confidential discussion on your career. Hays Specialist Recruitment Limited acts as an employment agency for permanent recruitment and employment business for the supply of temporary workers. By applying for this job you accept the T&C's, Privacy Policy and Disclaimers which can be found at hays.co.uk - provided by Dice AGILE, BUSINESS ANALYSIS, ISEB, SYSTEMS ANALYSIS