Contract Senior Business Analyst

Posted 6 Hours Ago
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Hiring Remotely in UK
Remote
Senior level
Cloud • Information Technology
The Role
Lead requirements gathering and process design for an AI-enabled drafting system during a 6-week contract. Manage and prioritise backlog, plan sprints, facilitate scrum ceremonies, remove impediments, write Gherkin user stories, model data/application/process using UML/BPMN, and maintain stakeholder alignment to keep delivery on schedule.
Summary Generated by Built In
We are seeking an experienced, highly organised Business Analyst for a 6-week contract to support a critical Waterfall project.  You will lead the requirements-gathering and process-design phase for a new AI-enabled drafting system. You will immediately take ownership of gathering requirements, mapping them to project milestones, facilitating alignment meetings, and proactively resolving project blockers to keep our delivery timeline strictly on track.

Key Responsibilities
  • Gather and manage backlog of requirements
  • Prioritise and plan sprints
  • Facilitate scrum ceremonies
  • Remove impediments and support the team
  • Bridge business and technical team


Skills, Knowledge and Expertise
  • Previous experience as a client facing Senior Business Analyst across diverse sized projects. 
  • Confident in challenging assumptions and working with the customers’ Product Owners to define an PoC/MVP for a product. 
  • Ability to effectively structure backlogs to define a product using epics and features aligning both business needs and technical architecture.
  • Ability to write clear, testable user stories using Gherkin acceptance criteria.
  • Ability to lead Stand-ups, Retrospectives, Showcases, Planning Sessions, Iteration Planning Sessions and Project Discovery Sessions, and Backlog Refinement Sessions.
  • Expert understanding of Scrum.
  • Solid experience working in an Agile team to agree and develop system/product designs based on user requirements and specify these as user stories.
  • Ability to create and sustain effective stakeholder relationships, across all levels.
  • Strong modelling skills across the data, application and business process domains using standard modelling conventions (i.e. UML, BMPN, etc).
  • Excellent written and verbal communication in English. 


About
We are passionate about helping businesses navigate the rapidly changing and complex world of emerging technologies. We create well-structured, secure, scalable solutions at speed to provide the foundation for groundbreaking change.

Skills Required

  • Previous experience as a client-facing Senior Business Analyst across diverse sized projects.
  • Experience working with Product Owners to define a PoC/MVP.
  • Ability to structure backlogs using epics and features aligning business needs and technical architecture.
  • Ability to write clear, testable user stories using Gherkin acceptance criteria.
  • Ability to lead Stand-ups, Retrospectives, Showcases, Planning and Backlog Refinement sessions.
  • Expert understanding of Scrum.
  • Solid experience working in an Agile team to develop system/product designs and specify user stories.
  • Ability to create and sustain effective stakeholder relationships across all levels.
  • Strong modelling skills across data, application and business process domains using UML, BPMN, or similar.
  • Excellent written and verbal communication in English.
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The Company
HQ: Lincoln
923 Employees
Year Founded: 1998

What We Do

At Nasstar, we specialise in transformative technology. Our integrated suite of managed services delivers everything from cloud optimisation and application modernisation to networking, security and self-serve tools. With a consultative approach at our core, we modernise and manage technology to help our clients succeed in today's competitive business world. Through strategic consultation, to implementation and management, we provide the vision and the mechanics needed to create transformational change for our clients.

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