Technical Business Analyst
Location: This is a hybrid role and can be based from any of our offices in Manchester, Stoke, Southport, Peterborough, Chesterfield or Tunbridge Wells.
Are you a proactive and technically minded Business Analyst ready to thrive in an Agile environment? We're seeking an experienced Technical Business Analyst to join our dynamic IT development team, where innovation and collaboration drive everything we do.
About the Role
As part of a motivated, multi-disciplinary Agile development team, you'll play a key role in delivering high-quality software solutions aligned with business priorities, translating business needs into meaningful requirements. You'll work closely with business stakeholders, Delivery Managers, Senior Business Analysts and your development team to shape and refine user stories for both large-scale projects and smaller enhancements. Your insights will help ensure that every development delivers real value to end users.
You'll also be part of a vibrant Business Analyst community, sharing best practice, championing Agile values, and promoting continuous improvement and self-organisation.
Key Responsibilities
Facilitate workshops to support requirements gathering and product backlog creation
Apply a range of techniques to create, refine, split, and map user stories
Collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure clarity and alignment on requirements
Support Agile delivery through active participation in ceremonies and sprint planning
Why Join Us?
Be part of a forward-thinking organisation
Work in a supportive, agile culture that values your input and growth
Enjoy opportunities for professional development and career progression
What We're Looking For
Proven experience in a Technical Business Analyst role within an Agile environment
Strong facilitation and stakeholder engagement skills; Able to communicate effectively and accurately in a diplomatic manner
Ability to build & maintain effective working relationships with internal and external personnel
Workshop facilitation skills for requirements gathering analysis and product backlog refinement
Demonstrates a variety of techniques to create, refine, split and map User Stories
A collaborative mindset and a passion for continuous improvement
Ability to work effectively across multiple change projects/incidents or change activities simultaneously
Experience of using Jira or similar Agile delivery tools
Highly self-motivated
About Us
Markerstudy Insurance Services Limited (MISL) is one of the largest Managing General Agents in the UK. With a strong presence in the UK motor insurance market, we specialise in niche motor cover, where our solid market knowledge and experience enables us to create highly targeted products.
Our success is underpinned by our underwriting strategy to identify and apply special risk factors to the customers' advantage. That, and our skilled underwriting technicians who are friendly, accessible and empowered to make decisions.
We only transact business through professional UK insurance intermediaries and we take pride in fostering excellent working relationships. Our products feature prominently on Aggregators' sites, such as Confused, Go Compare and Compare the Market, via our broker partners.