Digital Business Analyst

Digital Business Analyst Contract role £400 per day Inside IR35 3-6 Months 3^rd of April latest start date Closing date for applications: Friday 17^th March Location: Northwest England (hybrid working)The Digital BA role will be responsible for understanding services business needs and be able to creatively shape and refine business solutions to meet those needs. You will create user stories and plan development activities to facilitate phased releases of software delivery.Main duties of the role:

• Understand services needs and be able to creatively shape and refine technology solutions to meet those needs with specific experience of Microsoft applications
• Lead and facilitate workshops as part of the Digital Programme and work closely with the Programme Manager / Lead
• Understand the business change needs, assess the impact of changes in relation to benefits and translate these into clearly documented requirements for new software applications and services
• Create user stories and plan development activities to facilitate phased releases of software delivery
• Work closely with services and a team of project managers, software developers and data analysts

Essential Skills and Experience:

• Qualification in Business Analysis
• A track record of working on IT development programmes with demonstrable experience of working on a variety of different IT delivery projects
• Exposure to a digital suite of systems such as CRM, Devops, Mobile Apps, BPM
• Experience of working in a GDS framework
• Experience of benefits definition and activity-based costing
• Experience of working with a recognised Agile or Iterative development methodology
• Experience of Agile documentation including Backlogs, Customer Journeys, Use Cases, User Stories, Acceptance Criteria etc.
• Experience of a variety of requirements elicitation techniques, (e.g. interviews, questionnaires, user observation, workshops, role playing and prototyping)
• Good facilitation and influencing skills with the ability to work with large groups of staff of varying level of seniority

Carbon60, Lorien & SRG - The Impellam Group STEM Portfolio are acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.