AddressRest’s Data, Technology and Delivery (DTD) business unit is accountable for planning and preparing the organisation for the future through strategic technology innovation, as well as charting our business strategy and executing for today and tomorrow.
Situated in the Business Analysis Practice, the Senior Business Analyst has two main priorities:
- Supporting the Product Owner/Business Owner/Sponsors to ensure that business needs and solutions options are understood
- Ensuring the product/platform/project team have a shared understanding of the requirements, through written and verbal communication.
Key Accountabilities and Responsibilities
- Gathering and documenting requirements: Gather, review, analyse, validate, evaluate, and map business systems, processes and user needs and translate them into requirements/user stories with acceptance criteria
- Managing stakeholders: Engage, inform and negotiate with stakeholders to elicit and validate requirements and prioritise them
- Analysing and modelling: Analyse documents, programs, logic, process flows and specifications. Model the requirements using a range of techniques such as process mapping, story mapping, user stories and acceptance criteria, business rules
- Managing the requirements lifecycle: Ensure that requirements/user stories are prioritised based on their value, complexity, and feasibility, ensuring that the most critical items are delivered first
- Team communication and collaboration: Work closely with Engineers, Testers, Change Managers Third Party members within the product/platform/project team to ensure everyone understands business requirements to be able to develop a fit-for-purpose solution
- Risk and issue management: Identify risks and issues and develop effective mitigation/management strategies according to Rest’s risk framework, and communicate risk assessments and plans to the necessary stakeholders.
