Lead Technical Business Analyst

Aker Systems is a technology company focused on providing secure enterprise data platforms. They are seeking a Lead Technical Business Analyst to lead business, data, and systems analysis activities, working within Agile technical delivery teams to ensure solutions meet business requirements.

Responsibilities:

• Lead the data and systems analysis activities within the project, identifying the business and technical requirements and acceptance criteria
• Conduct data analysis activities to identify detailed requirements including business transformation mappings
• Create technical User Stories, including task breakdown and be able to explain them to the technical delivery team
• Work with the Solution Architect to develop and document detailed User Stories for the project backlog – you will need to validate that the solution will meet the business requirements
• Work with the data consumers and internal teams to create specifications including detailed data definitions & mappings
• Take the lead on running workshops and data supplier engagement
• Formalise the results of data and systems analysis into structured documentation and obtain approval from the key stakeholders
• Form strong business relationships with suppliers and consumers of data
• Build out patterns and processes that can be repeated
• Manage the project backlog in Jira
• Be part of the technical Agile scrum team – actively contributing to other activities including testing and validation of the end results

Requirements:

• A UK Government Security Check (SC) clearance is required for this role
• Bachelor's degree or greater
• At least 5 years experience within a similar role - Technical Business Analyst, Technical Data Analyst, Product Business Analyst, Software Business Analyst
• Extensive experience with AWS S3
• Experience of working in an Agile delivery team
• Experience communicating to a varied range of stakeholders across both technology and the business, building strong relationships
• Skilled in collecting and interpreting data, analysing results to identify patterns and trends in structured and unstructured data sets
• In depth understanding of creating User Stories and functional specifications (incorporating functional, non-functional and data definitions)
• Experience of working with data orientated requirements, including a good understanding of data modelling, mapping and workflow
• Able to apply suitable analytical approaches to requirements discovery, documentation and solution delivery
• Experience running requirements workshops to elicit User Stories, Workflow Diagrams, etc
• Previous experience working within a data team on complex integration problems using public Cloud and messaging or streaming technology