As a Senior Business Analyst in Kainos, you will be responsible for ensuring that your team has a good understanding of business needs so that our customer solutions meet the needs of them and their users. You will be responsible for articulating problems and processes in ways understood by all stakeholders - both business and technical, and for facilitating the analysis and design of cost-effective software solutions that impact users worldwide.
Minimum Requirements:
Experience in bespoke software delivery, operating as a part of an agile team working for an external customer (experience in a client-facing role in a consulting environment is a must-have)
UK public sector experience
Extensive experience in a relevant commercial or technical environment
Broad business and technology understanding and a proven awareness of industry trends
Proficient in stakeholder management, sensitive to the needs of each stakeholder yet comfortable to challenge where appropriate
Excellent user story creation skills, articulating the business needs in a format that is easily consumable by the scrum team (2 years, backlog management, refinement sessions, customers pre-sales, requirements, and priorities and value) talk to end users
Strong business process modelling skills, capturing existing processes, designing new processes and presenting processes to achieve buy-in
Competent facilitator of small groups to achieve focused outcomes. (dev teams, product approval committee, delivery manager
Highly effective at translating business requirements into cost-effective functional requirements
Good commercial awareness, always delivering within project constraints
A strong understanding of Agile and Waterfall Project Management delivery methodologies
Able to work flexibly and to tight deadlines
We all work in teams here in Kainos – a proven ability of strong team skills, including working in a multi-disciplinary team is crucial
Good verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to communicate with a variety of stakeholders
Desirable:
Experience of software development or related problem-solving discipline
Experience of working on client site, delivering high-quality digital products. Stakeholder management experience
We are passionate about developing people – a demonstrated ability in managing, mentoring and coaching members of your team and wider community is important
Experience mentoring customer on good story writing techniques
Agile and waterfall project experience across a range of methodologies (across a range of methodologies and frameworks (e.g. waterfall, scrum, Kanban, etc.)
Active participant in communities of interest (e.g. online groups, speaking at conferences etc.)
