Business Analyst

We are an independent software and technology consultancy who have clients in the public and private sector. We pride ourselves on our ability to deliver exciting new digital services for our clients. We focus on understanding our client’s business and work with them to deliver change that makes their business more effective. We are able to support our clients with their strategy, technical design, user experience, software development and delivery into live service. Our multidisciplinary teams have the drive, talent and creativity to take strategies from inception all the way through to successful business adoption.

We operate as a flat organisation, and believe in trusting and supporting all of our team to operate independently, making the most of their expertise in their field. We believe in giving everyone an opportunity to continually learn and grow in the direction they choose, and we actively help and support people to shape the career that they wish to have. We take work-life balance seriously, enabling people to work flexibly where possible and we strive to create a fun and relaxed working environment that allows our team to thrive.

We believe that diversity makes us a stronger company and we seek to employ people with different ideas, styles and skill sets, each able to contribute in unique ways. This diversity engenders a richer, more creative environment – one in which our people develop and clients are served better.

The Role:
We are looking for a Business Analyst with proven industry experience in digital product
delivery. You will need to be a great listener and communicator with a creative, structured
and logical approach to problem solving.
You have some experience of working with a variety of stakeholders and experience of
digital delivery.

About you:
We are looking for people who have a background in critical thinking, enjoy tackling different problems in a structured way and are highly motivated self-starters. Our consultants should have great interpersonal and communication skills and a strong desire to deliver the best possible solutions for our clients. Our team is our strongest asset, you will be an excellent team player who recognises the
strength of the team as a whole and can find their role within the Solirius team.
The ideal candidates will share our values and be aligned with our ways of working and as your career progresses, you can expect to work across all areas of the development lifecycle, from strategy to implementation, and to take on assignments in different sectors. This will provide you with a broad base of experience from which to build an outstanding career.
Candidates should be open to working in different locations for different clients. Although most of our work is in London, candidates should be happy to travel as client needs dictate.

Key Responsibilities:
You’ll be:

• Working with the client business and your business and product management colleagues to understand the business requirements and translate them into technical specifications

• Constructively challenging the requirements to ensure that they are fit for purpose and remain inline with the corporate and project goals.

• Operating in an Agile delivery team and performing the normal BA duties.

• Writing good quality user stories and acceptance criteria so that a developer can work effectively.

• Acting as a first point of contact for the delivery team to clarify requirements.

• Developing effective ways of working with the engineering, development and QA teams.

• Facilitating communication with stakeholders to play back potential solutions and designs, technical feedback, user experience findings or delivery options.

Key Skills/Experience:

• Experience of capturing user needs and requirements in a number of ways e.g.

• workshops, structured interviews

• Experience of understanding a business or a process and presenting it in a

• structured way e.g. Business Process Modelling, Use Case modelling and/or User Story development.

• Ability to structure the analysis of a business or product e.g. SWOT or MOST analysis.

• Some experience of Agile Delivery across the whole lifecycle of technical projects/ service development.

• Experience of writing requirements (Functional and Non-Functional)

• Some experience in Agile scrum methodologies and delivering software in Agile teams

• An interest in technology and an understanding of its practical application

• Strong communication skills, both written and spoken word with an ability to successfully engage with managers and stak holders at all levels within a business

• A pragmatic approach to projects and requirements who can interpret and elaborate on clients’ needs

• Some appreciation of the dynamics of a technology development team

Benefits

Package and Benefits:

• Competitive salary, dependent on experience

• Flexible working / Work from home

• Generous annual discretionary bonus

• 25 days annual leave + bank holidays

• 10 days allocated development training per year

• Contributory pension

• Private Healthcare

• Gym membership

• Annual away days and social events