Senior Business Analyst

• Lead the BA activities for a fast-growing e-commerce business with significant IT projects
• Excellent opportunities to develop your career in a tech driven company

Client Details

The client are a fast growing online retail business who are expanding their IT function to allow them to drive forward their commercial aims. Based in East Yorkshire, they are an easy commute from York, Leeds and Doncaster, they have onsite parking. There is also a plan to open a Leeds based office later this year and can consider candidates who would want a mixture of office and home based working.

Description

The Senior Business Analyst role will lead the activities for the BA function and act as bridge between the business and IT to gather and document key requirements, set expectations and agree a pragmatic schedule for delivery

• Facilitate workshops and one-to-one sessions to capture, elicit and understand user requirements
• Produce user stories, epics and acceptance criteria, documenting requirements clearly and concisely
• Obtain stakeholder priorities for upcoming work and use this to organise the product backlog
• Contribute to scrum team activities to ensure delivery of team goals
• Be responsible for building highly collaborative internal and external stakeholder relationships
• Escalate any potential issues, risks or defects uncovered as appropriate
• Report project delivery dates to key stakeholders
• Mentor junior team members

Profile

The successful candidate will have strong experience in a Senior Business Analyst role in a fast paced technology driven environment and have the following experience:

• Have worked as a Lead BA / Senior BA working on multiple projects
• Expert and passionate about business analysis
• An inquisitive mind, able to analyse complex problems and break them down into clear business requirements
• Highly organised with meticulous attention to detail
• Able to work collaboratively and confidently to facilitate workshops and meetings
• Able to build credibility quickly with stakeholders from all levels of the business
• Strong process mapping and requirements documentation skills.
• Mentoring / leading of junior BA's would be advantageous

Desirable

• E-commerce experience
• Warehouse / logistics experience
• Agile & waterfall SDLC experience

Job Offer

Joining a really fast-paced, growing IT department you will have exposure to innovative projects. With a relatively new IT Director and huge amount of investment being pumped into IT this is an opportunity to truly progress your career.

In addition to an excellent basic salary, the following benefits are included:

• Free onsite gym
• Fantastic working environment.
• 25 days holiday.
• Development training from the top IT Brands in the world. HPE, Cisco, Microsoft to name a few.
• 5 year project plan.
• Subsidised canteen
• Free parking
• Medical cover
• Discounts for online retailers