Business Analyst

Job Purpose

Davies Group is looking for an enthusiastic, experienced Business Analyst to join our Software Development Team. Our Agile squads are developing a range of services to deliver world class applications for regulated markets utilising cloud technologies. Your role will be to engage with stakeholders to understand and document requirements, processes, risks and objectives that allow for the delivery of a bespoke software product, and to work with the team to provide sizing/estimates for the work.

Duties and responsibilities:

• Elicit customer requirements and business rules through stakeholder engagement
• Document requirements into detailed user story format to be used for Agile development

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  Work with the team to provide estimates for effort as well as any dependencies.
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  Assist with driving Agile processes such as Backlog Refinement, Sprint Planning, Scrum, Sprint Reviews and Sprint Retrospectives

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  Provide a link between the customer, development team and any third party regarding software functionality
• Conduct any necessary impact analysis on customers’ requirements changes and on any environmental changes that can affect product delivery
• Work closely with the Product Owner to assist in prioritising the backlog and delivering changes into the business

Skills & Experience

• Ideally at least 3 years experience working as a BA in a software development environment
• Experience working within an Agile framework and user stories
• Experience working with Azure DevOps or a similar work management tool
• Self-motivated, result driven and business oriented
• Strong analytical skills and exceptional attention to detail
• Able to demonstrate a track record of delivering successful software implementations
• Strong interpersonal skills with the ability to host and attend meetings with a variety of stakeholders from across the business
• The ability to articulate business requirements clearly and effectively and present these requirements to a wide range of stakeholders from different levels within a business.