Business Analyst

We have an exciting opportunity available for a Business Analyst to join our team. At OS we believe work is something you do, not somewhere you go. We embrace a hybrid working model where we believe the choice is with the individual on when they work from our fantastic office in Southampton, or from home. You will join us on a full-time, permanent basis and in return, you will receive a competitive salary of £36,414 - £42,840 per annum.

Ordnance Survey (OS) provides national mapping services for Great Britain and is a world-leading provider of geospatial solutions. OS location data and expertise has helped governments make smarter decisions, businesses gain valuable data insight, and everyone experience the world outside for over 225 years.

We offer fantastic benefits in return for joining us as our Business Analyst:

• Competitive salary plus performance-related bonus
• Competitive pension
• Flexible working options
• 25 days annual leave (30 days after five years), plus bank holidays and an extra 3 over Christmas
• A suite of excellent additional benefits

About the role:

We are seeking a hardworking Business Analyst to join our team to support our projects through the development lifecycle. As a Business Analyst, you'll shape and deliver OS's business change initiatives in an Agile development environment.

What you'll be doing as our Business Analyst:

• Working with employees at all levels of the company, external customers and wider stakeholders
• Building a solid understanding of their needs, requirements and priorities
• Advising key stakeholders on the results of analysis and present them with potential solutions to facilitate the decision-making process
• Consistently considering the benefits of change and challenging to ensure the minimum viable product is the immediate priority
• Together with the Technology and Design team, determining detailed requirements and delivering value iteratively in collaboration with the customer
• Being an active member of our Business Analyst community and staying on top of the industry and technical developments to ensure that you continue to deliver the best support possible to the business

What we're looking for in our Business Analyst:

• Experience of establishing rapport quickly with a wide variety of people from heads, business experts and development teams to understand the bigger picture, elicit and analyse requirements
• Experience of providing analysis to support the delivery of web platforms, mobile applications, APIs and customer-facing systems at a pace.
• The ability to shape business change initiatives to ensure there is a clear understanding of the wider business change considering processes and people needed to implement digital transformation
• Experience of working with Product Owners to help prioritise and roadmap the evolution of products and services
• Time management, planning and prioritisation skills
• Experience of influencing and challenging stakeholders to ensure deliverables meet business goals and are of value to our customers
• BCS International Diploma in Business Analysis is highly desirable

Our growing Technology and Design team plays a key role in ensuring OS is at the cutting edge of geospatial capability and is looking for people to join them. Its mission is to work across the business to provide customer centric design and technology services.

Closing date: Sunday 24th October 2021

If you would like to be a part of this, click 'apply' now to be considered as our Business Analyst -we'd love to hear from you!