Business Analyst in Edinburgh

Business Analyst in Edinburgh

Edinburgh Full-Time 55000 - 65000 £ / year (est.) No working from home possible
ASA Recruitment

At a Glance

  • Tasks: Join a digital transformation journey as a Business Analyst, driving change and innovation.
  • Company: Public Sector organisation in Edinburgh with a focus on agile methodologies.
  • Benefits: Competitive daily rate, hybrid working, and potential for contract extensions.
  • Other info: Fast-paced environment with opportunities to coach and lead agile practices.
  • Why this job: Make a real impact by shaping processes and collaborating across departments.
  • Qualifications: 5+ years as an agile BA with experience in software implementation.

The predicted salary is between 55000 - 65000 £ per year.

ASA Recruitment’s client, a Public Sector organisation in Edinburgh, are currently looking to recruit 2x Business Analysts on a hybrid basis, for initial 12 month contracts (with potential extensions) on a rate c.£450-£475/day outside of IR35 (based on experience).

The Role:

Our client is undergoing a significant digital transformation, brought about by its own ambitions. They are looking for 2x agile business analysts to work in the Change Department.

Essential Experience:

  • 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.
  • 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, (required within the in-house LOAD methodology) 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.

Business Analyst in Edinburgh employer: ASA Recruitment

Join a forward-thinking Public Sector organisation in Edinburgh, where your role as a Business Analyst will contribute to a significant digital transformation. With a strong emphasis on collaboration and agile methodologies, the company fosters a supportive work culture that prioritises employee growth and development, offering opportunities to lead impactful projects while enjoying the flexibility of a hybrid working model.

ASA Recruitment

Contact Details:

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We think you need these skills to ace Business Analyst in Edinburgh

Agile Business Analysis
Software Implementation
Stakeholder Engagement
Process Mapping
User Research Facilitation
Data Analysis (Quantitative and Qualitative)
User Story Development