Business Analyst

Adecco are pleased to be recruiting for a Business Analyst to join Southern Water.

Job Title: Business Analyst
Pay rate: £550.00 per day inside IR35
Programme: OAM GIS
Location: Hybrid (Travel to Worthing/field sites in WW operating area as needed)
Reports To: Lead Business Analyst / Workstream Lead
Contract Required for: 3 months initially with opportunity to extend as required.

Role Overview:
The GIS OAM Programme at Southern Water is undertaking a transformation of its geospatial capability, including a critical mobile workstream aimed at replacing legacy solutions such as GeoField and enhancing mobile GIS functionality used by Wastewater field operatives.

The Business Analyst will be deployed to this Mobile Workstream, supporting the design, development, and implementation of new mobile GIS tools and integrated workflows, alongside those interfacing with SIRF, PIRF, and other wastewater operational processes.

This role is critical to understanding the current challenges, clarifying operational boundaries and responsibilities, and capturing accurate, testable requirements for delivery teams.

Key Responsibilities:

• Conduct discovery workshops and field observations with Wastewater operational teams (WW Collection, East, West, Central) to understand current usage of GeoField on GETAC devices, shared device logistics.
• Analyse and document the 'as-is' and 'to-be' workflows for SIRF and PIRF integration, including unknown or inconsistent steps in current processes.
• Capture detailed requirements for:
  o Mobile GIS functionality (e.g. redline, asset lookup, approval workflows).
  o Device sharing and user login behaviours in the field.
  o Data flows
  o Operational boundary ownership and localised approval processes.
• Work with developers and solution architects to ensure mobile solutions meet offline, usability, and integration requirements.
• Clarify unknowns (e.g. PIRF) through discovery and stakeholder engagement.
• Create and maintain artefacts such as UML diagrams, process flows, data flow diagrams, user stories, and acceptance criteria.
• Collaborate with Product Owners / Workstream Leads / Design Leads and delivery teams to manage and prioritise a clear, value driven backlog.
• Support UAT.
• Ensure alignment with the broader GIS data governance model and Utility Network architecture.

Required Skills & Experience:

• Proven experience as a Business Analyst.
• Demonstrable experience in discovery, process modelling, requirement elicitation, and stakeholder engagement with non-technical field users.
• Understanding, or experience in utilities / regulated industries, preferably in the Wastewater Industry.
• Strong analytical and documentation skills, using tools such as Visio, JIRA, Confluence, or similar.
• Excellent communication and facilitation skills, with the ability to liaise across technical and operational domains.
• Fully defined, prioritised requirements backlog for mobile GIS and supporting workflows.
• Traceable link between requirements, test cases, and system design decisions.
• Recommendations for future state mobile capability to replace legacy systems effectively.
• Adherence to Business Analyst Governance Standards and Programme Governance Standards.
• Knowledge within the ESRI Suite of applications including ArcGIS Enterprise and Field Maps is desired but not essential

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