Technical Business Analyst

Technical Business Analyst - Bristol - 2 days WFH - Global Manufacturing - Next Generation Technologies - £45,000

Yolk Recruitment are working with a Leading Asset Management company to find a Technical Business Analyst who has a solid technical understanding and mindset.

The ideal candidate for this role will be responsible for ensuring the successful delivery of high-quality software solutions to new and existing clients to meet client requirements. This role involves understanding client business objectives, processes, and requirements, and translating these into technical specifications that the Business Development Team and Developers can deliver against.

Key Responsibilities

• Collaborate with client users and conduct research to gather and analyse requirements, including prioritisation.
• Create detailed requirement specifications/ User stories and supporting documentation.
• Liaise with Business Development and software developers to assess options, clarify concerns and agree solution designs.
• Manage change requests and evaluate their impact on existing features and requirements.
• Support testing addressing queries that arise during the testing process and carrying out functional testing against stories
• Implement customer requirements by creating tables, columns, forms and workflow in our application (similar to designing a MS Access application)
• Adhere to best working practices as defined in ISO & Policies.
• Any other task as directed by the Line Manager.

Key results/objectives

1) Generate defined and agreed User Stories/requirements with clear understanding of how they meet client needs and the underpinning solution design.

2) Work closely with Business development and Software developers to design robust solutions and architectures.

3) Build and maintain strong relationships with clients to build trust and confidence in the company and products.

4) Work to improve the quality, reliability and performance of the product solutions to:

1. Meet client and company expectations.
2. Develop robust, reliable solutions in new sectors.
3. Create an outstanding/intuitive user experience.
4. Produce an outstanding quality product in the competitive market.

Qualifications

• Proven eligibility to work in the UK.
• Minimum HND or NVQ Level 3/4 in a science based subject.
• A Level Maths, or similar
• A Level English, or similar, with good grammar and attention to detail.

Desirable

• A degree in Computer Science or equivalent.

Expertise/Skills

• Ability to confidently communicate technical/non-technical issues with clients.
• Experience in capturing client requirements and generating quality User stories.
• Logical and Analytical mindset to understand business needs and translate to technical solution.
• Knowledge of testing principles/concepts/ techniques.
• Familarity with Relational Database design

Desirable

• Agile PM experience
• SSADM Practitioner or equivalent.

• Ability to confidently communicate technical/non-technical issues with clients.
• Experience with JIRA or Similar software.

Previous experience/ knowledge

• Ability to accurately specify client technical requirements for Development Team.
• Experience troubleshooting technical issues or documenting for Dev Team to resolve.
• Testing across Microsoft Windows, Web, iOS and Android Platforms.
• Previous experience working with ISO (9001 & 27001) would be advantageous.

Desirable

• Proven experience as Business Analyst in Software Sector or as Technical Business Analyst.
• Working knowledge of programming and/or query language.

Experience Required

• Minimum of 3 years experience in a similar role.
• Excellent written/verbal communication skills.
• Knowledge of relational Database designs
• Knowledge of software testing methodology.

Desirable

• Query language (SQL).
• Working with MS Azure

Special attributes

• Ability to self-motivate and self-manage working both independently and within the wider Business Dev Team.

Personal qualities

• Team Player who enjoys working in a dynamic, fast-paced environment.
• Ability to multi-task, prioritise & keep calm.