job description - Senior Business Analyst
- We’re looking for a Senior Business Analyst with proven senior-level experience to join the Equal Experts network. As a member of the team, you will work alongside our clients to help deliver products and solutions to meet business needs. And, of course, all this happens in a consultative, collaborative fashion – in keeping with our values.
Responsibilities
- Working with Product Owners and other subject matter experts to define the requirements (user stories) to build new functionality, including BDD/Gherkin style acceptance criteria
- Working with QA’s to validate the acceptance criteria, modify and split requirements as appropriate, and participate in estimation and iteration planning sessions
- Working with other Business Analysts to understand and define end-to-end or integration requirements across more than one project team, as well as systems within the client as required
- Owning all requirements to be built by the team, presenting stories and journeys, and facilitating requirement workshops
- Relationship management with the client Product Owners and the wider team
- Supporting the Development Managers and Project Leads as necessary
- Assisting the team with making appropriate commitments through story selection and task definition
- Identifying and removing impediments; preventing distractions that interfere with the team’s ability to deliver sprint goals
- Improving the productivity of the team in any way possible
Required Skills
- 8+ years of experience as a Business Analyst/Product Owner
- Confidence in performing data discovery; manipulating and reviewing large volumes of data in order to validate any data assumptions / check data completeness.
- Considers all aspects of data integrity including the business meaning of data, relationships between entities/attributes, data quality, where in customer journeys the data has come from and how it has been manipulated
- Confidence in analysing and articulating data analysis requirements i.e. attributes needed for reporting and/or interfaces.
- Data literate; confident in describing how data is ingested, manipulated, stored and performing calculations using that data
- Confidence in holding business and technical conversations with own project team including Solution Architects, Enterprise Architects and/or Senior Engineers, Operational and/or Delivery teams
- Able to describe data transformation logic required, based on business rules and an understanding of the data (i.e. columns and fields)
- Has used a variety of models to visualise complex problems within a given sphere (domain, technical, business) to build common understanding amongst different stakeholder groups.
- Is comfortable using different modelling techniques to understand integrations and dependencies between systems / domains.
- Proven commercial experience in delivering enterprise solutions
- Most aspects of software delivery and life cycle - including:
- gathering and developing detailed functional requirements
- breaking down complex requirements into independent user stories
- capturing detailed acceptance criteria
- building a release plan with user stories in collaboration with the customer
- managing the backlog, running showcases and incorporating user feedback
- Familiarity with some of the technical aspects of software development, including understanding the capabilities and limitations of programming languages, and a knowledge of testing (System, Unit, Integration, Interface)
- An understanding of data modelling, object modelling and OO design principle
- Opinions about how to build great software and being prepared to defend them
- Successfully applied Agile/XP/Scrum practices
- May have introduced Agile techniques and coached teams to apply them effectively
- Ideally (although not essential) experience of running distributed teams and distributed Agile
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Equal Experts develops personalized software for its clients. The company provides the user experience, product management, an inception phase, and DevOps Mindset. Equal Experts is a global network of technology shapers.