Business Analyst

TrueNorth are looking for a Business Analyst who can sit between the technical delivery teams and the senior Leadership to support a number of business critical projects.

This role is HYBRID based in either Newcastle or Leeds offices and you will need to be within a 90minute commute.

Business Analysts with big government sector experience and experience with GDS delivery will be highly desirable for this programme.

Rate for this role is £ per day Inside IR35 and is an initial 3 month contract.

The right Business Analyst will be able to -

• Facilitate technical discussions to ensure the right design solutions are determined
• Analyse complex business and technical processes considering any opportunities, benefits, and risks and apply lean thinking to optimise value
• Map and validate requirements
• Scope and detailing requirements and associated user stories that meet the definition of ready and provide ongoing clarification throughout development and testing
• Eliciting stakeholder/user needs and identifying constraints, ensuring these are managed to enable development
• Ensuring solution requirements are reflective of stakeholder/user needs
• Supporting high quality evaluations of ideas and proof of concept/capability activity, including ideation, discovery, scoping, success factors, risks, assumptions, proposals and value realisation plans with appropriate metrics
• Engaging a wide range of stakeholders, primarily Product Managers, DevOps, software engineering, data engineering/science, architecture and security, to establish requirements and priorities
• Assimilating technical/technology requirements quickly and challenging effectively while building and retaining strong working relationships in both one-to-one and group settings
• Working closely with technical team members to ensure shared understanding of requirements for implementation
• This role is ideal for a TECHNICAL BA who enjoys sitting between the business and the engineering teams and is able to speak credibly across the workstreams from both a business and techie perspective.

Key Skills & Focus:

• Strong technical background - you do not need to be able ot code but you must be able to understand digital domains, software development, QA/testing approaches.
• Work involves engineering requirements, not traditional BA tasks.
• Ability to write technical user stories, enable tech platforms, and support behind-the-scenes engineering.
• Discovery and problem framing
• In this programme, Stakeholders are primarily lead engineers ( not end-users)