Business Analyst - GIS OAM Programme

Adecco are pleased to be recruiting for a Business Analyst to join Southern Water on their GIS OAM Programme (MapInfo Workstream).

Job Title: Business Analyst - GIS OAM Programme (MapInfo Workstream)
Location: Hybrid (Remote with occasional Falmer/Durrington Visits)
Contract Duration: 6 months (initially with potential for extension)
IR35 Status: Inside IR35
Day Rate: £500
Start Date: ASAP

Overview:
Southern Water's GIS OAM Programme is a major enterprise initiative to decommission the legacy GIS estate and migrate all spatial tools, data assets, and business functionality into a modern ESRI based enterprise GIS platform.

We are seeking an experienced Business Analyst to lead the discovery, analysis, and design activities for the MapInfo Workstream - focused on understanding and replacing a wide array of critical corporate tooling and corporate datasets.

This is a complex workstream involving legacy integrations, curated datasets, and rule-based GIS tools used across operations, asset management and engineering.

Key Responsibilities:

• Lead business engagement for the MapInfo Workstream, identifying how legacy spatial tools are currently used and what outcomes they support.
• Elicit, define, and document detailed business and functional requirements, including corporate tooling and datasets and custom built into legacy tools.
• Capture and model business processes, including AS-IS and TO-BE states to support enterprise holistic design.
• Facilitate workshops and interviews with SMEs across multiple departments.
• Collaborate with Architects, Other Analysts, Project Managers, Workstream Leads and GIS Developers to ensure requirements are translated accurately into ESRI tools and enterprise GIS datasets.
• Analyse and document dependencies between MapInfo tools and other upstream/downstream systems, ensuring nothing is missed in the replacement design.
• Support UAT and defect triage during the testing phases so that solutions meet business expectations.
• Fully defined, prioritised requirements backlog for MapInfo workstream.
• Traceable link between requirements, test cases, and system design decisions.
• Recommendations for future state function capability to replace legacy systems effectively.
• Adherence to Business Analyst Governance Standards and Programme Governance Standards.

Essential Skills & Experience:

• Proven experience as a Business Analyst.
• Demonstratable exposure to enterprise programmes.
• Ability to work independently and manage priorities in a delivery focused environment.
• Skilled in producing clear documentation and BA artefacts including process maps, use cases and user stories.
• Strong stakeholder engagement and workshop facilitation skills.
• Experience working within structured programme environments with Agile and Waterfall elements.

Desirable:

• Experience working with or around ESRI ArcGIS Enterprise platforms.
• Utilities or regulated industry experience, preferably in the wastewater domain.
• Familiarity with GIS.
• Knowledge of Southern Water systems or similar water utilities landscape.

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