Technical Business Analyst

Are you a Technical Business Analyst looking for your next exciting role?

Sopra Steria is looking for a number of Technical Business Analysts, for a unique opportunity to work on a digital transformation programme. The project will involve some of the newest technologies and approaches within the industry. The successful candidate will work closely with the other members of the Scrum Team to build a user-centred GIS mapping solution which integrates a number of features as specified and prioritized within the Product Backlog.

We can offer great career progression opportunities, ability to be based anywhere across the UK, benefits which you can flex to meet your needs and training and development opportunities.

What you'll be doing:

• Elicit, define and elaborate business requirements from end users, subject matter experts and other stakeholders.
• Capture, define, document, analyse and validate requirements.
• Identify and evaluate options for improving business processes.
• Support Product Owner by helping them to analyse the business domain, maintain a healthy Product Backlog and groom the Product Backlog.
• Ensure that requirements align with the product vision.
• Collaborate with other members of the Scrum Team to refine the Product Backlog.
• Ensure a level of documentation that allows the Scrum Team to have a clear and common understanding of requirements and business rules.
• Supports Product Owner to track requirements against priorities, identify gaps and ensure business value focus.
• Collaborate with User Experience Designers to ensure that the implementation is user-centric.
• Ensure that implementation aligns with business needs.
• Work very closely with Business Analysts and Product Owners in other Scrum Teams to complete a detailed analysis of the user journeys and business processes and translate these into user stories with acceptance criteria to help craft the product roadmap.

What you'll bring:

• Experience of working as a Technical Business Analyst within a Scrum team.
• Demonstrable experience of writing user stories, with acceptance criteria, and supporting Product Owner to prioritise the Product Backlog, etc.
• Excellent oral and written communication skills.
• A team player who works well with technical and non-technical resources
• Ability to see tasks through to completion without significant guidance.

It would be great if you had:

• Experience working on data driven projects.
• Experience working within the Transport Sector.
• Demonstrable experience of working as a Technical Business Analyst within a Scrum Team operating as part of an Agile Release Train (comprises multiple Scrum Teams).
• Demonstrable experience of working very closely with User Experience Designers.

If you are interested in this role but not sure if your skills and experience are exactly what we're looking for, please do apply, we'd love to hear from you!

Employment Type: Permanent

Location: Homebased with occasional travel to one of our offices

Security Clearance Level: BPSS

Internal Recruiter: Jen Whiteside

Salary: £35,000 - £50,000 per annum

Benefits: 25 days annual leave with the choice to buy additional days, life assurance, pension, and generous flexible benefits fund

Although this role is advertised as full-time, we support many ways of working and can offer a range of flexible working arrangements. So, if you're interested and need to work flexibly, we encourage you to apply and talk to us about what might be possible.

Loved reading about this job and want to know more about us?

We support the UK Government to tackle today's biggest challenges. We combine technical expertise and delivery capability with vision to accelerate change and reinvent the way that Public Services are designed and delivered. We work with energy and integrity to build intelligent, highly secure, joined-up solutions that make a difference to everyday lives. We've been helping Government to make a difference for 50 years, creating common systems and approaches, enabling government to work across multiple agencies and radically transform how Public Services are delivered. Empowering Government to make a difference to everyone, every day.

We embrace difference as a source of creativity, innovation and competitive advantage and are striving to become a more diverse organisation. We welcome applications from people with a diverse variety of backgrounds and identities. We are committed to equality of opportunity for all and do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, colour, gender, age, disability, sexual orientation or marital status. We have partnered with Vercida , the UK's largest diversity and inclusion focused careers site, where all our vacancies are available in an accessible format.
If you require any adjustments to the recruitment process, to enable you to perform to the best of your ability, please let us know when completing your application. We participate in the Disability Confident scheme and are committed to offering an interview to any candidate with a disability, who meets the minimum criteria for the role. If you believe this could apply to you, please let us know when completing your application.