3 * Business Analysts

Salary: £480 – £540 per day

3 Business Analysts are required for 6 month contracts working within the Client Organisation responsible for the New High-Speed Rail project in the UK this is a multi-billion-pound high-speed railway to directly link the city centres of: London, Birmingham, Leeds and Manchester.

The Business Analyst works within the Digital, Data and Technology Department with is tasked in delivery quality IT platforms, products and services to provide the project with the latest Digital, Data and Technology services. This role is responsible for the delivery of business analysis services, ensuring outcomes are aligned with business strategy and user needs, supporting the business to deliver HS2 objectives.

The Digital, Data and Technology Department which currently manages 130 IT projects which varying greatly from New systems, updates, CI, transformation of data etc.

One of the Business Analyst will solely work on a large strategic project for Telemetry for assets where you will work the full project lifecycle – stakeholder analysis (mapping, identification), requirements management, Business Acceptance testing (UAT’s), services transition, incident & process mapping. Most likely delivery methodology is Waterfall.

The other 2 Business Analyst will work on a portfolio of small projects which will use both Agile and Waterfall delivery methodologies – when using Agile they use Azure DBox for requirements management

Working Situation – Hybrid

Role is office based from Snowhill, Birmingham coupled with Hybrid working – expectation is to work 5 days a fortnight from the Birmingham office and the rest of the time at home. Please note currently everyone is working from home due to Omicron probably for the next 2 months.

Successful candidate needs to be able to have a notice period of 2 weeks

Salary £480 – £540a day INSIDE IR35

Duties & Responsibilities

* To be responsible for supporting the business analysis activities in HS2, liaising with stakeholders across the business and responding to requests for support.

* To be responsible for working in collaboration with System Owner and Senior Business Relationship Manager to understand, elicit, analyse, document, and communicate program and platform/application requirements.

* To be responsible for ensuring that the priorities of the Business Analysis backlog are shared with IT Portfolio team and Performance and Capacity Analysts to align supply and demand of IT services.

* To be accountable for working ahead of the delivery team to elicit requirements for next iteration’s user stories.

* To be responsible for defining test condition requirements according to test plans to design, interpret and execute them analysing risks and results based on tests and activities.

* To be responsible for recommending, justifying and delivering improvements to the way HS2 operates, through changes to information systems, technology, business processes, practices and organisation.

* To be accountable for developing a good understanding of a specific work domain such as Platform or Product

* To be responsible to advance the Business Analyst community through the sharing of best practice and mentoring others.

Required Criteria

The Business Analysts will have experience on a range of delivery methodologies including agile & waterfall, have experience using requirements management tools (Azure Dbox, GEIA etc), track record of Business Analysis, Business process testing, requirement management coupled with strong stakeholder management skills

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* Agile working. Ability to identify and compare the best processes or delivery methods to use, including measuring and evaluating outcomes.

* Business analysis. Ability to investigate problems and opportunities in existing and new services, to help produce solutions.

* Business process testing. Ability to take responsibility for the creation of test cases.

* Requirements’ definition and management. Ability to facilitate the setting of business priorities for change initiatives of high complexity.

* Stakeholder relationship management. Ability to support stakeholders and manage relationships effectively.

Knowledge:

* Knowledge of a variety of project delivery methodologies (e.g. But not limited to, Agile, Waterfall)

* Knowledge of digital information technology, trends and the opportunities they present

Type of experience:

* Experience of conducting problem solving and analysis of services or processes and contributed to the implementation effective solutions.