Senior Business Analyst - SC Cleared at Axiologik, London/Remote, 6 Months, £650 per day

Axiologik is looking for a Senior Business Analyst to join the team on a hugely engaging piece of work with one of their financial clients, having a huge impact on those who use their services.

£650 Inside IR35

6 months

January start date

SC Clearance

Hybrid - once a week in Leeds OR London (whichever site is easiest to get to)

Skills:

• Strong exposure to technical / software development projects within a financial or banking environment.
• Proven experience working with agile/scrum methodologies.
• Deep understanding of the Software development lifecycle and its application in an agile context.
• Experience with tools like JIRA and Confluence for Agile project management and documentation.
• Capture, analyse and document business and technical requirements; write user stories and acceptance criteria; ensure alignment with the roadmap, sprints and delivery plans.
• Oversee/support work prioritisation across the team/wider stakeholders.
• Help facilitate ceremonies (sprint planning, reviews, retrospectives) and ensure the tech team remain aligned with product objectives and timelines.
• Previous experience of operating models (both current and target state) and how to develop and use them on projects / programmes.
• Experience of working on complex projects and programmes involving broad-based business change.
• Excellent stakeholder management at all levels; both internally and externally. Able to manage large groups of stakeholders, under uncertain environments, providing challenge as and when required.
• Producing outputs at various levels (high level to functional specifications) to a high quality within the standards set by the BA management team.
• Experience of developing business processes using 'out of the box' thinking to challenge existing processes.
• A proactive problem solver with the ability to exercise independent judgement and strong influencing skills , knowing when to act on any key issues that require escalation/support from the BA leadership team.
• Experience of providing both functional and technical expertise to the Technology teams in producing detailed requirements documentation (e.g. detailed process maps, use case specifications, wireframes, logical data models, traceability matrices).
• Experience of managing complexity and change and an awareness of the associated technical impacts to the organisation.
• Possess strong business insight, able to quickly pick up the context and business knowledge required, supporting the business through the requirements gathering, design and testing phases
• Proven experience of facilitating workshops with the business utilising a variety of business analysis methods.

Desirable Experience

• Awareness of business architecture and related principles.
• Data Management (inclusive of data journeys, analysis, integration and migration).