Lead Business Analyst - Agile

Lead Business Analyst – 18 Month Fixed-Term Contract Location: Milton Keynes (Hybrid – 2 days in the office) Bonus: Up to 15% annual incentive Hours: Full-time, 35 hours per week (Monday to Friday) Start-up Allowance: £320 (pre-tax) Are you an experienced Business Analyst who thrives in complex environments and enjoys leading transformative change? As the Business Analyst, your role is to ensure that business processes and supporting systems continue to meet business project stakeholder needs. You will be a key liaison between the technical IT colleagues that implement business process management technology – based solutions and the line-of-business that performs the process work (manually or in conjunction with automated systems). You must be able to straddle the IT and business domains and communicate (or broker communications) between each side for complex business issues. Lead the BA practice within, ensuring that appropriate standards and techniques are adopted and introducing continuous improvement Understand and demonstrate through models how the business processes support business and strategies and objectives Via models, demonstrate the opportunities for business process improvement to the process owner and other key project stakeholders Suggest process flow, personnel resource, policy, goal and rule changes along with metrics to measure the impact of those changes Work within guidelines driven from enterprise architecture by the business process architect when determining the current \”as is\” state of a business process, and update current-state business process documentation as needed To lead the delivery of the BA elements of agile methodologies Define, document and agree business processes at all levels Proven experience in an agile and waterfall delivery environment ~ Scrum, Kanban, Time Boxing , Adaptive planning, Burn Down Lists ~ Intermediate level experience of Customer Journey and Value Mapping, Use Cases, Storyboarding, Sprint Design, Sprint Management, Retrospectives ~ Experience of leading BA delivery on complex projects or programmes ( ~£Background in root cause, bottleneck, impact and other process (not systems) analysis methods ~ Business case, business requirements and requirements elaboration experience ~ Can evidence visual and design thinking together with UX design Bonus scheme of up to 15% ~ Contributory stakeholder pension scheme ~ Life assurance cover ~25 days annual leave plus bank holidays ~ Holiday purchase scheme ~ Enhanced family leave (maternity, paternity, adoption) ~ Free access to digital tools supporting physical and mental wellbeing ~24/7 Employee Assistance Programme ~ IT kit provided for hybrid working