Agile Business Analyst

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Spring Technology's client, a public sector organisation in Edinburgh, are currently looking to recruit an Agile Business Analyst an initial 6 month contract on a rate of c.£400/day (outside of IR35).

Responsibilities:

* Propose and seek consensus on innovative business solutions

* Work with Product Owners to understand and model the capabilities of the business

* Work with Product Owners to elicit and prioritize requirements, define the product roadmap, develop our minimum viable product with corresponding storyboarding and the building and refining of product backlog

* Act as a Product Owner ambassador through being a proxy in ensuring business value is being delivered

* Work with the Design Authority function to continuously improve our business solution design capability and assisting in ensuring we are adhering to best practice

* Engender trust and authority through recurring engagement with the business and IT

Support the identification, evaluation and tracking of project benefits

Requirements:

* Experienced Business Analyst with strong Agile methodology experience.

* Ability to create effective user stories that follow the INVEST principles

* Ability to create and refine product backlogs and assist product owners to determine priorities

* Experience of working in Agile teams using KANBAN and SCRUM delivery process frameworks

* Ability to agree effective acceptance criteria in collaboration with product owner

* Ability to create lo-fi conceptual wireframes

* Comfortable in facilitating Product Backlog Refinement sessions

* Support the Product Owner to generate the Product Roadmap/Horizon and keep updated

* Competency with understanding Entity Relationship Modelling, XML, web-services and standardised integration catalogues

* Ability to create business process diagrams using standardised notation in Microsoft Visio or similar package

Desirable Skills:

* Experience of LEAN UX design principles

* An understanding of the implications of system architectures in transition

* Experience of Domain driven design and leading edge techniques such as Behaviour Driven Development

If you would like to hear more about this opportunity please get in touch with Claire Lorden OR Chris Wallis on 0131 524 9027 or send your CV through to [email protected] OR [email protected]

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