Business Analyst

ASA Recruitment’s client, a Public Sector organisation in Edinburgh, are currently looking to recruit 2x Business Analysts on a hybrid basis, for initial 12 month contracts (with potential extensions) on a rate c.£450-£475/day outside of IR35 (based on experience).

Our client is undergoing a significant digital transformation, brought about by its own ambitions. They are looking for 2x agile business analysts to work in the Change Department.

• Have a proven track record with a minimum of 5 years’ experience as an agile BA in software implementation or transformation projects, within multiple business contexts
• Ability to work alone, quickly get up to speed, identify key stakeholders and form strong working collaborations cross-department
• Ability to map current working processes across technologies, hardware, buildings; identify new working processes; and identify a route to achieve implementation of new processes including associated business change activities
• Understanding, influencing and collaborating with stakeholders, users, the business, across departments and within and across teams to identify and define need
• Leading understanding and definition of goals, benefits and needs, using a variety of techniques including facilitating single or multiple user research sessions and the analysis of data (quantitative and qualitative)
• Using user story / process mapping, identifying and defining business benefit, value and metrics, roadmaps, epics, features, user stories, including splitting and refining work, and ‘as is’ and ‘to be’ states, generating documentation to a good quality and standard, (required within the in-house LOAD methodology) including requirements / user stories
• Supporting the adoption of agile ways of working and solution delivery at pace, coaching others in the team in agile business analysis mind set, tools and techniques
• Delivering high quality results and decisions, within scrum cadence tight timescales whilst working under pressure and working with ambiguity