Technical Business Analyst (6 month FTC)

Purpose of the job

A Technical Business Analyst works as a key member of the product development team, responsible for specification of the system functions that deliver our clients’ business requirements and to provide support for development, testing and implementation of system solutions.

Technical Business Analysts perform a range of activities that span traditional business and systems analysis; defining scope and requirements, identifying opportunities, reviewing and proposing potential solutions. Technical Business Analysts are active advisors to both our clients, commercial and development teams and duties will include: stakeholder management, product management and solution implementation.

Key Responsibilities

· Taking commercial and client requirements into technical delivery through requirement gathering and into the raising of JIRA tickets for prioritisation.

· Contribute to the technical strategy to deliver system functionality and support the future development and expansion of Collinson’s Insurance division.

· Collaborate with internal and external stakeholders across business and technical functions, to understand objectives and requirements and translate these into the creation of new system features and enhancements

· Analyse business processes to identify requirements and process improvements

· Work with stakeholders to plan and complete requirement gathering and analysis activities

· Provide clearly defined acceptance criteria to development and QA teams to enable accurate development and testing

· Collaborate with development and QA teams to design and implement new features

· Maintain communication with stakeholders during development, testing and implementation of product improvements

· Contribute to regular team meetings to refine the product backlog, prioritise work items and discuss key decisions, risks and issues

· Provide cover for team members as required

· Define and follow analysis standards and be an active contributor to the progression of the analysis role within the Insurance division.

Knowledge, skills and experience required

· Proficient in the use of JIRA to refine product back-logs, including user stories and acceptance criteria, working in an Agile framework

· Proficient in translating business requirements into acceptance criteria ready for development and testing

· Ability to work collaboratively with stakeholders to engage and bring together process, functional and commercial owners

· Experience of onboarding new clients and business onto existing solutions

· Experience working with a variety of delivery models including Scrum, Kanban, waterfall etc

· An understanding of data feeds used for transfer of data between systems

· Effective communication with engineering development and testing teams to clarify and deliver solutions

· Experience in transforming processes, ways of working and applying continuous improvement

· Excellent interpersonal and organisational skills

· Excellent written and verbal communication skills

· Ability to work effectively with technology services groups and other management teams on a global, virtual basis

· Comfortable working on own initiative to support the objectives of the whole team

Collinson is an equal opportunity employer and welcomes differences in all their forms including: colour, race, ethnicity, gender identity, sexual orientation, neurodivergence, family status, age, individuals with disabilities and people from all backgrounds, cultures and experiences as we strongly believe this contributes to our on-going success.

We are focused on continually evolving our purpose driven, high performing culture, providing an environment where our people have the opportunity to achieve their full potential and do interesting and meaningful work. Our company values are: Take Action, Do the right thing, One team and Be insight led. These help guide everything we do internally in terms of how we think, act and interact, right through to how we deliver value to our customers and clients.

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If you need any extra support throughout the interview process, then please email us at ukrecruitment@collinsongroup.com