As a Business Analyst you will be a key part of the team in delivering change within the department. You will work across the product delivery lifecycle to bring together business needs with technical capabilities, with the goal of defining solutions that deliver value. You will be experienced in a variety of business analysis tools and techniques in an Agile environment. 

You will be experienced in detailing requirements using industry best standard approaches, whilst being familiar with the process of detailing and communicating user stories and acceptance criteria. You will be given the opportunity to continue to grow your capabilities through working with Senior/ Lead BAs and continually growing your skills and knowledge through the support of the wider community of practice, additionally you will be, at times, responsible for managing Associate BAs to develop your management and coaching skills.


Skills & Experience:

• Previous experience of working for a government dept. 

• Can demonstrate experience of applying Agile principles to iteratively deliver increments of value.

• Can confidently elicit and define epics, user stories & acceptance criteria following best practice principles. This includes articulating the vertical and horizontal relationships between outcomes, epics and user stories.

• Can take high-level outcomes and collaboratively work with stakeholders to break them down into epics and user stories, detailing the least amount of work required to achieve the outcome.

• Can identify, elicit and define non-functional requirements using NFR catalogues or similar.

• A proactive, self-starter with the initiative to add value in ambiguous situations without close guidance.

• Highly adaptable to change in response to a range of stakeholders inputs.

Desirable:

• Can demonstrate an understanding of AWS and Azure services.

• Experience of IT automation, preferable experience of Ansible Tower.

• Experience of infrastructure as code.