Data Business Analyst – OUTSIDE IR35 – SECURITY CLEARED
Start date: ASAP
Duration: 12 Months
Location: 2 days every 2 weeks in Portsmouth rest of the month working from home
Rate: £525 per day OUTSIDE IR35
SECURITY CLEARANCE REQUIRED
Summary:
Data focussed BA to work within our clients’ team on Palantir based solutions.
Responsibilities:
* Collaborate with stakeholders to gather, document, and validate business requirements for software development projects.
* Work with the Product Owner and engineering team to translate business needs into clear user stories and acceptance criteria, ensuring alignment with agile principles.
* Partner with designers and user researchers to understand user needs, conduct joint workshops, and translate insights into wireframes and design requirements.
* Facilitate effective communication between developers, designers, and non-technical stakeholders, ensuring mutual understanding of requirements and expectations.
* Lead and run refinement sessions with developers to review, break down, and clarify user stories and requirements, ensuring they are well-understood and actionable.
* Work with QA professionals to test engineering outputs and ensure that acceptance criteria are met on completed tickets.
* Participate in sprint planning, daily stand-ups, sprint reviews, and retrospectives to maintain continuous alignment with agile development cycles.
* Conduct business process modelling and analysis to identify potential improvements and best practices.
* Assist in user testing, validation, and gathering feedback to iterate and enhance delivered features.
* Support in defining and implementing lean development practices and ensuring processes are documented and followed.
Skills:
* Data Focussed
* MOD experience
* Excellent communication skills with ability to build relationships with all manner of customers.
* Proven experience working as a Business Analyst in agile software development teams.
* Experience working in the Ministry of Defence (MOD) or similar secure environments.
* Data focussed rather than an all-rounder.
* Familiarity with software engineering concepts to effectively communicate with developers and understand technical constraints and opportunities.
* Ability to collaborate with designers and user researchers to align on translating user needs into functional requirements and wireframes.
* Excellent communication skills for collaborating with diverse teams and stakeholders.
* Experience using agile project management tools such as JIRA or Confluence.
* Understanding of security best practices in software development projects.
Bonus Skills:
* Knowledge or experience of Palantir
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