Business Systems Analyst
Posted 1 week ago by Hancock & Parsons Ltd
£62 Per hour
Outside
Hybrid
Buckinghamshire, England, United Kingdom
Summary: A leading software provider is looking for an experienced Business Systems Analyst for an initial 12-month contract. The role involves working in an Agile environment, collaborating with Developers, Testers, and Architects to translate and define requirements for product re-engineering. The position requires strong stakeholder management skills and the ability to work independently. The contract offers a hybrid working arrangement with a competitive day rate.
Key Responsibilities:
- Work closely with Developers, Testers, and business stakeholders to ensure requirements are clear, agreed, and actionable.
- Lead sessions with Developers to understand existing system functionality.
- Translate technical requirements into clear business language for stakeholder review.
- Facilitate workshops and walkthroughs to capture needs and ensure alignment.
- Build strong relationships across technical and business teams.
- Produce user stories, acceptance criteria, process maps, and supporting documentation.
- Maintain a clear audit of requirement changes and decisions in Azure DevOps.
- Participate in backlog refinement, sprint planning, and review sessions.
Key Skills:
- Experience working for a software house.
- Experience with systems re-engineering, complex system migrations, or modernization projects.
- Experience working closely with technical teams (Developers, Architects, & Testers).
- Comfortable working within an Agile delivery environment.
- Familiarity with tools such as Azure DevOps, Jira, or similar.
- Strong communication and stakeholder management skills.
- Desirable: Experience with legacy systems and translating existing functionality into modern solutions.
- Exposure to software development concepts (no coding required).
- Familiarity with workflows in Azure DevOps.
- Knowledge of test planning and UAT processes.
Salary (Rate): £62.00/hr
City: Buckinghamshire
Country: United Kingdom
Working Arrangements: hybrid
IR35 Status: outside IR35
Seniority Level: undetermined
Industry: IT
A leading software provider is seeking an experienced Business Systems Analyst to join their team on an initial 12 month contract. You'll be working within an Agile environment and collaborating closely with Developers, Testers and Architects to translate and define requirements, to aid in re-engineering their current products.
Work Type: Hybrid working, 4 days in office, 1 WFH with some flexability on this once settled in.
Day Rate: Outside IR35 contract paying £400 - £500 per day
Responsibilties: You'll work closely with Developers, testers and other business stakeholders to ensure requirements are clear, agreed, and actionable. This is a highly collaborative role requiring excellent stakeholder management skills and the ability to work with minimal supervision.
- Lead sessions with Developers to understand existing system functionality
- Translate technical requirements into clear business language for stakeholder review
- Facilitate workshops and walkthroughs to capture needs and ensure alignment
- Build strong relationshios across technical and business teams
- Produce user stories, acceptance criteria, process maps and supporting documentation
- Maintain a clear audit of requirement changes and decision in Azure DevOps
- Partcipate in backlog refinement, sprint planning and review sessions
Required Skills & Expereience: Experience having worked for a software house Experience with systems re-engineering, complex system migrations or modernisation projects Experience working closely with technical teams (specifically, Developers, Architects & Testers) Comfortable working within an Agile delivery environment Comfortable using tools such as Azure DevOps, Jira or similar Strong communication and stakeholder management skills
Desirable: Experience working with legacy systems and translating existing functionality into modern solutions Exsposure to software development concepts (no coding requireed) Familiarity with workflows in Azure DevOps Knowledge of test planning and UAT processes