Technical Business Analyst

Waterloo - Hybrid Working
Full Time
Fixed Term Contract (12 Months)
Grade 4

At Currys we’re united by one passion: to help everyone enjoy amazing technology. As the UK’s best-known retailer of tech, we’re proud of the service our customers receive – and it’s all down to our team of 25,000 caring and committed colleagues. Working as one team, we learn and grow together, celebrating the big and small moments that make every day amazing.

We are looking for an enthusiastic, energetic and versatile Technical Business Analyst to join our team and assist us with an ambitious transformation portfolio.

This role is ideal for an experienced Technical BA who is looking for more than a standard BA role, and will work within our Technical Business Analysis team, which is part of our Software Engineering function.

This is a technical role and the Technical Business Analysis team work closely with Solution Architecture, contributing to solution design and integrations. Our focus is to ensure that solutions are fit for purpose, complexity is discovered early, gaps are identified, and that solutions are not over engineered.
The team are the bridge between non-technical business requirements, actionable designs, and implementation-ready user stories to ensure successful and predictable delivery. Concentrating on technology and what is required, with an emphasis on understanding the requirements (‘what’), working collaboratively with Solution Architects, (‘how’) and Agile Delivery Managers (‘when’). To succeed you will be comfortable speaking the 3 languages of business, architecture, and technical delivery.

Job description:

Technical Business Analyst

Waterloo - Hybrid Working
Full Time
Fixed Term Contract (12 Months)
Grade 4

At Currys we’re united by one passion: to help everyone enjoy amazing technology. As the UK’s best-known retailer of tech, we’re proud of the service our customers receive – and it’s all down to our team of 25,000 caring and committed colleagues. Working as one team, we learn and grow together, celebrating the big and small moments that make every day amazing.

We are looking for an enthusiastic, energetic and versatile Technical Business Analyst to join our team and assist us with an ambitious transformation portfolio.

This role is ideal for an experienced Technical BA who is looking for more than a standard BA role, and will work within our Technical Business Analysis team, which is part of our Software Engineering function.

This is a technical role and the Technical Business Analysis team work closely with Solution Architecture, contributing to solution design and integrations. Our focus is to ensure that solutions are fit for purpose, complexity is discovered early, gaps are identified, and that solutions are not over engineered.
The team are the bridge between non-technical business requirements, actionable designs, and implementation-ready user stories to ensure successful and predictable delivery. Concentrating on technology and what is required, with an emphasis on understanding the requirements (‘what’), working collaboratively with Solution Architects, (‘how’) and Agile Delivery Managers (‘when’). To succeed you will be comfortable speaking the 3 languages of business, architecture, and technical delivery.

• Contribute to solution proposals and architecture, identify areas of concern and work to resolve these with the wider team, challenge solutions and suggest alternatives where a simpler option could be utilised.
• Assess the technical impacts, plus business or change impacts, that are as a result of the proposed technical solutions and integrations.
• Have awareness of the wider Currys architecture and future technical vision. Be able to look at the proposed solution outside of the scope of the current programme, and the impact and fit to the wider estate, and also to the wider strategic future state.
• Work within a collaborative team, in conjunction with Enterprise and Solution Architecture, ensuring that we have technical solutions and Architectural artefacts that deliver the requirements.
• Within proposed technical solutions identify edge cases, functional gaps, or logic flaws so that…