Lead Business Analyst (PROJ-4617)

The Business Analyst will:

• Take responsibility for understanding client requirements, collecting data, delivering analysis and problem resolution.
• Identify, evaluate and recommend options.
• Collaborate with, and facilitate a wide range of stakeholder groups.
• Seeks to fully address client needs and implements solutions if required.
• Enhance the capabilities and effectiveness of the interventions (as above), by ensuring that proposed solutions are fully understood and appropriately exploited.
• Identify the communications and relationship needs of stakeholder groups and translate communications/stakeholder engagement strategies into specific activities and deliverables (in close liaison with the internal communications team).
• Facilitate open communication and discussion between stakeholders.
• Act as a single point of contact by developing, maintaining and working to stakeholder engagement strategies and plans.
• Provide informed feedback to assess and promote understanding of the business changes.

Essential Skills:

• Investigates enterprise data requirements where there is some complexity and ambiguity.
• Plans own data modelling and design activities, selecting appropriate techniques and the correct level of detail for meeting assigned objectives.
• Provides advice and guidance to others using the data structures and associated components.
• Provides advice, guidance and expertise to promote adoption of methods and tools and adherence to policies and standards.
• Evaluates and selects appropriate methods and tools in line with agreed policies and standards.
• Contributes to organisational policies, standards, and guidelines for methods and tools. Implements methods and tools at programme, project and team levels including selection and tailoring in line with agreed standards.
• Manages reviews of the benefits and value of methods and tools. Identifies and recommends improvements.
• Provides definitive and expert advice in their specialist area.
• Actively maintains recognised expert level knowledge in one or more identifiable specialisations.
• Oversees the provision of specialist advice by others.
• Consolidates expertise from multiple sources, including third-party experts, to provide coherent advice to further organisational objectives.
• Supports and promotes the development and sharing of specialist knowledge within the organisation.
• Selects appropriate techniques and tools to develop user stories and elicit user experience requirements in complex situations.
• Identifies and describes the design goals for systems, products, services and devices. Identifies the roles of affected stakeholder groups.
• Resolves potential conflicts between differing user requirements. Specifies measurable criteria for the required usability and accessibility of systems, products, services and devices.