Business Analyst (m/w/d) Vollzeit, remote in Bournemouth

Methods Business and Digital Technology Limited is a £100M+ IT Services Consultancy that has partnered with a range of central government departments and agencies to transform the way the public sector operates in the UK. Established over 30 years ago and UK-based, we apply our skills in transformation, delivery, and collaboration from across the Methods Group to create end-to-end business and technical solutions that are people-centred, safe, and designed for the future.

Our human touch sets us apart from other consultancies, system integrators, and software houses. With people, technology, and data at the heart of who we are, we believe in creating value and sustainability through everything we do for our clients, staff, communities, and the planet. We support our clients in the success of their projects while working collaboratively to share skill sets and solve problems. Predominantly focused on the public sector, Methods is now building a significant private sector client portfolio.

The Senior Business Analyst will typically play a leading role in a DDaT multidisciplinary team, within agile and waterfall project environments. They will apply analytical and problem-solving tools to assess situations and understand problems, eliciting, analysing, validating, and gaining consensus on business requirements and user stories. The role will involve leading business analysts in small to medium sized projects and supporting the analysis of more complex transformations. They will be responsible for leading a variety of business analysis tasks, working independently to deliver the required outputs, managing stakeholder relationships, and developing others through sharing best practice and mentoring.

The ideal candidate will have experience applying business analysis skills in digital transformations across a number of different styles of transformation. In addition to business analysis skills, they will have experience in how emerging technologies and innovation can benefit the delivery of improved public services. The role will be home based and will include work on client sites. It is expected that the Senior Business Analyst will quickly acquire an understanding of Methods Portfolio offering to work effectively for our clients. The role will support the development of our Business Analysis Service and Community of Practice.

The Senior Business Analyst will have the following responsibilities:

• Analyse and understand complex user and business needs, including where material is conflicting and drawn from multiple sources.
• Contribute to Methods Business Analysis Community of Practice and mentor other business analysts.
• Extensive Business Analysis or relevant knowledge gained from recognised bodies (BCS, BABOK, Agile PO).
• Lead the analysis as part of a multi-disciplinary team.
• Demonstrably able to select the appropriate business modelling techniques that are most effective to help people understand the situations, problems, and solutions.
• Recommend and influence improvements to business structures, processes, and information flows supported appropriately with automation and technology.
• Lead work that delivers effectively and efficiently in fast-paced environments, in agile and waterfall project methodologies.
• Extensive experience of working in different project methodologies and awareness of how to adapt their practice.
• Good problem solving and analytical skills, including the ability to create clear observations, analysis, and conclusions based on customer interviews, published requirements, and data.
• Pro-active approach to personal and professional development, and mentoring of others in Business Analysis Best practice.
• Knowledge of Business Architecture (TOGAF, BIZBOK).
• Specialist knowledge in a business domain or other digital specialism.
• Specialist knowledge in security, data, and privacy.
• Knowledge and understanding of software development lifecycles.
• Experience in managing story development in tools such as JIRA, Azure DevOps, or similar.
• Experience in collaborative and remote tooling (Teams, Slack, MIRO, Mural).
• Ability to understand complex financial issues combined with deep analytical skills.
• Experience of working in scrum environments with team definitions of ready and done.
• Experience of working with APIs e.g. specifying API requirements/payloads, testing APIs.
• Experience of data modelling and working with logical data models (LDMs).
• Good understanding of data catalogues i.e. populating and maintaining them.
• Excellent communication skills with the ability to liaise between multiple product teams and relay clients' data needs.
• A creative approach to problem solving.

Be part of exciting project work that is making a difference in society.

Benefits:

• Development – access to LinkedIn Learning, a management development programme, and training.
• Wellness – 24/7 confidential employee assistance programme.
• Flexible Working – including home working and part time.
• Social – office parties, breakfast Tuesdays, monthly pizza Thursdays, Thirsty Thursdays, and commitment to charitable causes.
• Time Off – 25 days of annual leave a year, plus bank holidays, with the option to buy 5 extra days each year.
• Volunteering – 2 paid days per year to volunteer in our local communities or within a charity organisation.
• Pension – Salary Exchange Scheme with 4% employer contribution and 5% employee contribution.
• Discretionary Company Bonus – based on company and individual performance.
• Life Assurance – of 4 times base salary.
• Private Medical Insurance – which is non-contributory (spouse and dependants included).
• Worldwide Travel Insurance – which is non-contributory (spouse and dependants included).
• Enhanced Maternity and Paternity Pay.
• Travel – season ticket loan, cycle to work scheme.

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