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Lead Business Analyst

Proactive Appointments
Posted 17 hours ago, valid for 18 days
Location

Windsor, Berkshire SL4 4AY, England

Contract type

Full Time

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  • Our client is seeking a Lead Business Analyst to start as soon as possible with a hybrid working model of two days in the office each week.
  • The role involves understanding business goals related to technology initiatives and ensuring successful project delivery through effective requirements analysis and communication skills.
  • Candidates should have demonstrable experience in a leadership role, particularly in API integration projects, with extensive experience in business analysis on large projects.
  • The position requires strong skills in Agile environments, particularly using JIRA for managing user stories and product backlogs, along with excellent facilitation and documentation abilities.
  • The expected salary for this role is competitive, and applicants should have a significant amount of relevant experience, typically around 5-7 years in similar roles.

Our client is looking for a Lead Business Analyst to join ASAP. Hybrid working – 2 days per week in the office. As a Lead Business Analyst you will be responsible for understanding the business goals that are to be addressed by technology-based initiatives and assisting in the delivery of projects that support my client in achieving these goals. Whilst each project will have its own success factors and require you to leverage a different set of skills, your key toolkit will include requirements & business analysis and excellent communication skills (both verbal and written).

Your drive to understand the real needs behind projects (and their success factors), will enable you to ensure that fit-for-purpose solutions are delivered on time and in full within our dynamic environment.

As an experienced Lead BA, you will excel at setting and meeting the expectations of your client-base and leading the business analysis activity on large, complex projects. Working in an agile environment, working with project teams to elicit requirements and document them as user stories with supporting artefacts, using JIRA to monitor progress

Expected experience & skills:

  • Demonstrable experience in a leadership role
  • Working with APIs and on API integration projects
  • Experience analysing API specifications and swagger documents to elicit requirements
  • Extensive business analysis experience on large projects and programs
  • High-level scoping activities and detailed requirements analysis
  • Strong experience working on feasibility and scoping activities for new or potential projects
  • Excellent knowledge in a wide variety of business analysis tools and techniques
  • Working in Agile environments and following the SCRUM framework
  • Excellent facilitation and requirements elicitation skills
  • Demonstrable experience documenting requirements for complex projects
  • Evidence of analysing and documenting complex business processes
  • Extensive experience of defining requirements and user stories in a digital environment, e.g., websites, apps, internal systems
  • JIRA to write user stories and manage product backlogs
  • Strong experience writing acceptance criteria in Gherkin format
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills

Due to the volume of applications received for positions, it will not be possible to respond to all applications and only applicants who are considered suitable for interview will be contacted. 

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In order to submit this application, a Reed account will be created for you. As such, in addition to applying for this job, you will be signed up to all Reed’s services as part of the process. By submitting this application, you agree to Reed’s Terms and Conditions and acknowledge that your personal data will be transferred to Reed and processed by them in accordance with their Privacy Policy.