Business Analyst (Public Sector/Govt Experience Required)

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Agile Business Analyst (Public Sector Experience Required), Scotland, 6+ Months, Public Sector

The Agile Business Analyst must have a combination of strong business understanding and a creative yet analytical mindset to solve problems. They must be skilled at interviewing techniques and workshop facilitation.

* Work with Product Owners

* Work with the Design Authority function to continuously improve our business solution design capability and assisting in ensuring we are adhering to best practice

* Engender trust and authority through recurring engagement with the business and IT

Role Profile

* Propose and seek consensus on innovative business solutions

* Work with Product Owners to understand and model the capabilities of the business

* Work with Product Owners to elicit and prioritize requirements, define the product roadmap, develop our minimum viable product with corresponding storyboarding and the building and refining of product backlog

* Act as a Product Owner ambassador through being a proxy in ensuring business value is being delivered

* Support the identification, evaluation and tracking of project benefits

Key Skills / Experience

* Ability to elicit requirements to assist in developing product roadmap

* Ability to create effective user stories that follow the INVEST principles

* Ability to create and refine product backlogs and assist product owners to determine priorities

* Experience of working in agile teams using KANBAN and SCRUM delivery process frameworks

* Ability to agree effective acceptance criteria in collaboration with product owner

* Ability to create lo-fi conceptual wireframes

* Should feel comfortable in facilitating Product Backlog Refinement sessions

* Support the Product Owner to generate the Product Roadmap/Horizon and keep updated

* Work in a collaborative manner with the team to deliver value early and often

* Understands the importance of feedback and how to utilise the feedback to improve product quality

* Ability to develop excellent working relationships with stakeholders, subject matter experts and the wider team

* Effective workshop set up, facilitation and execution

* Ability to think creatively and be able to articulate innovative ideas to solving complex business problems

* Strong interview techniques and document analysis

* Proven oral and written communication skills, with an ability to communicate to and from stakeholders

* Excellent interpersonal and influencing skills and a positive approach to problem solving

* Ability to evaluate information and present it in such a way that it is easily understood by the target audience

* Actively contribute to Product Management community of practice

* Demonstrable Value Stream Mapping Experience

* Demonstrable experience writing User Stories

* Experience of LEAN UX design principles

* An understanding of the implications of system architectures in transition

* Experience of Domain driven design and leading edge techniques such as Behaviour Driven Development