Business Analyst; Snowflake

Business Analyst (Snowflake)

WEG Tech Coventry, England, United Kingdom

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Recruitment Manager - WEG Tech | University of Warwick

• Flexible Hybrid Working Arrangement – Avg 3 Days on-site per week
• 42 Days Holidays (Including Bank Hols)
• On-site Parking
• Great Public Transport links direct to Campus

We are seeking an experienced Business Analyst to assist with the delivery of an enterprise-scale data platform programme – Snowflake (Design Stage). This will involve working at a leading University, engaging with a wide range of stakeholders, and collaborating with BI and Data Engineering Teams.

The Business Analyst will be responsible for collaborating with cross-functional teams to gather, define, and document data requirements. They will translate business needs into platform features and actionable user stories. They will ensure alignment of platform capabilities with business processes and enterprise architecture. They will support metadata management, data quality initiatives, and compliance with data privacy and regulatory standards.

• Develop a deep understanding of customer processes, strategies, priorities, and constraints.
• Identify opportunities for process and performance improvement using business and process analysis techniques. Drive and challenge customers’ assumptions about the way they will successfully introduce new business processes and solutions and contribute to robust process change, solution selection and implementation.
• Initiate and contribute to the ongoing development of technical documents for systems requirements, support models, etc. Produce documents including: process maps, data flows diagrams, functional requirements documents, etc.
• Work independently with a diverse group of staff from both business and technical areas, and external suppliers, creating opportunities to listen to customers and understand their needs, building relationships across the University. Work with the customer to determine the root cause of issues to identify the underlying true requirements and distinguish these from user requests.
• Play a leading role to analyse, document, propose and recommend solutions for technological and non-technical change initiatives.
• Work with the project sponsor to develop accurate, meaningful and measurable business cases.
• Draw on previous analysis experience and use a variety of business analysis methods (e.g. interviews, document analysis, requirements workshops, business process analysis, use cases, task, workflow analysis and facilitation) to elicit requirements and document business processes.
• Critically evaluate the requirements gathered from various sources and, where necessary, reconcile any conflicts.
• Prepare and present the business case, requirements and solution options at the levels appropriate to different audiences and for different deliverables, deconstructing high level information into details and abstracting up from low level information to a general understanding as needed.
• Deliver the relevant documentation as required, including functional specification; business requirements specification; detailed requirements specification; use cases and process documentation.
• Lead in the production of IT requirements documentation and support formal procurement activities.
• Identify and appraise solution options, carrying out options and gap analysis, to inform recommendations for implementation.
• Produce written reports and present recommendations to project/governance groups, including senior stakeholders and project sponsors.
• In the context of allocated project work, use expertise to act as liaison between the business and project teams, technology suppliers, technical and support teams to ensure the solution meets user requirements and that issues are identified and addressed as early as possible.
• Develop proposals for service improvements and new solutions with Service Owners for technical and…