About the team
Join our team as a Senior Business Analyst - Data and be part of a supportive environment where your skills and expertise are valued, and your contributions make a difference. The role reports into the Data Product Owner and will work alongside other Senior Business Analysts to define desirable, viable, feasible, and sustainable data solutions to support development across the product life cycle. The role is key to work as an intermediary between the business stakeholders and the lab development teams, engineers, and other domain services to maintain alignment with the Product Owner's vision and goals and the prioritized backlog.
With a culture of continuous improvement and a commitment to delivering value to our customers, we embrace challenges with enthusiasm and creativity.
This role can be based from Wolverhampton or Chatham with some travel to other offices.
About Us
The OSB Group is a FTSE 250 specialist mortgage lender, primarily focused on carefully selected segments of the mortgage market. Our specialist lending is supported by our Kent Reliance and Charter Savings Bank retail savings franchises. Diversification of funding is provided by sophisticated securitisation platforms. OSB's unique cost-efficient operating model is supported by our wholly-owned subsidiary OSBIndia.
Alongside passion for our products and customers, we're passionate about our people and want to continue building a collaborative and engaging environment. Being dedicated to Diversity, Equity and Inclusion, we encourage differences and recognize that individuals from diverse backgrounds and experiences can bring valuable insights and enhance the way we work.
What you will be doing
As a Senior Business Analyst - Data, you will play a pivotal role in collaborating with stakeholders to gather and analyse data requirements underpinning our ambition for data-centricity and translate their needs into actionable requirements. Using your previous experience of working in an Agile environment, your primary responsibility will be to translate these requirements into actionable user stories and acceptance criteria. You will analyse complex data, gather and refine requirements and collaborate with the agile teams to deliver innovative data-driven solutions.
Your responsibilities will include:
1. Ensuring a DOR (definition of ready) status for all functional and technical user stories.
2. Identifying product improvement opportunities in line with business Outcomes and Key Results (OKRs), the Product Owner's vision and roadmap.
3. Facilitating workshops to capture and analyse business requirements, documenting potential solutions and liaising with stakeholders.
4. Refining user stories and breaking them down into smaller tasks, ensuring clarity and alignment with the overall vision.
5. Developing data models, data flows and other data-related artefacts to visualize data relationships and processes.
6. Conducting business impact assessments, feasibility studies and research into systems, processes and products as required, making recommendations for the best options available.
7. Assuring solutions through techniques such as data modelling, data lineage, data dictionary, and information quality requirements.
8. Ensuring end-to-end traceability against quality standards and regulatory requirements.
In return for your commitment
We offer a base salary dependent on experience and location between £65,000 to £75,000 and a competitive benefits package including:
1. Discretionary annual bonus opportunity of up to 15%.
2. 28 days annual leave plus bank holidays.
3. Contributory pension (8% employer 5% employee).
4. Life Assurance (4x salary) plus Group Income Protection.
5. Access to Private Medical Insurance and Medical Cash Plan.
6. Maternity & Adoption Leave - Occupational Maternity/Adoption Pay provided at 100% of salary for the first 26 weeks.
7. Paternity Leave - 8 weeks of paid leave to be taken within 12 months of birth or adoption.
8. Additional benefits such as Hybrid working, Cycle Purchase scheme, Technology Purchase scheme, Season Ticket Loan, Holiday purchase/sell schemes, Employee Perk Portals, Payroll giving and Save as you Earn scheme.
Could you be the one?
We are looking for talented individuals who have the experience and knowledge set out below:
1. Strong track record of working as a senior business analyst OR Product Owner within an agile environment, specifically on data-centric projects/programmes, including data migration.
2. Significant technical understanding of a business intelligence landscape including the fintech operational systems, data repositories, data services, data migration, data management and cloud storage is essential.
3. Proficiency in data analysis techniques, including working with large datasets and identifying trends.
4. Strong communication skills with the ability to work with stakeholders to define and document as-is and to-be journeys and business processes including facilitating workshops.
5. Experience writing functional and technical user stories and related acceptance criteria in alignment with business objectives.
6. Demonstrable experience working in an Agile transformation programme within Financial Services.
We also believe that your career and how you progress is as unique as your individual personality. We continually support our people so they can become the best version of themselves.
What to do next
If this sounds like you, please apply now! For internal applications please visit the internal careers page to apply. Alternatively, if you wish to have an informal and confidential chat please get in touch. Contact details can be found on our careers page.
OSB Group are dedicated to diversity in the workplace and committed to treating all our employees and job applicants equally. We embrace equal opportunities and are opposed to discrimination on any grounds.
All applicants must have rights to work in the UK and be willing to undertake the relevant pre-employment screening checks should your application be successful. #J-18808-Ljbffr