About the role
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As a Senior Business Analyst, you will:
1. Document functional and non-functional requirements to deliver tangible business outcomes within an agile delivery environment
2. Discover new use cases for process automation within other Professional Services directorates of Manchester Met
3. Articulate the business value to be gained through the automation of manual processes
4. Drive high quality requirement capture through the use of outcome focused 3-Amigos sessions, working closely with developers and testers
5. Develop, train and support sprint team members in documenting effective requirements
6. Identify, communicate and manage risks within analysis and implementation phases of delivery
7. Contribute to continuous improvement initiatives within the Software Engineering department and Business Analysis community
About the candidate:
You will:
8. Have a strong foundation in Business Analysis and the ability to capture and articulate business requirements and outcomes.
9. Have a background working with teams who are implementing process automation solutions.
10. Be comfortable in specifying example-based scenarios to validate understanding with business stakeholders.
11. Be comfortable in contributing to technical solution and testing discussions around appropriate approach to testing.
12. Have experience working with an agile environment along with the ability to accurately support, estimate and plan within teams.
13. Be conversant with the concept of user stories and demonstrable experience driving and contributing to 3 Amigos sessions and the capture of detailed acceptance criteria.
It is also desirable that you will:
14. Have experience working in or around the Higher Education sector and exposure to related business processes
15. Have experience in teams using Blue Prism but other process automation tools will be considered (eg UIPath, Microsoft Power Automate).
To learn more about this exciting opportunity and the benefits we offer, please read the Job Description and Candidate Pack provided.
As IT&D, we help to create the University of the future by co-designing new ways of working, enhancing productivity, reducing complexity, supporting innovation, and providing the insights to drive continual improvement. Embracing a digital future in an evolving modern university, you will be working in partnership with our academic and Professional Services colleagues to deliver digital services that help the University achieve its strategic objectives in teaching and research, nationally & globally.
We are invested in continuous innovation and improvement within our ways of working and our people with a key focus on process automation, particularly in the quality assurance space.