Summary: Data focussed Business Analyst needed to work within a client's team on Palantir based solutions, requiring security clearance. The role involves collaborating with stakeholders to gather and validate business requirements, translating them into user stories, and facilitating communication between technical and non-technical teams. The position emphasizes agile methodologies and continuous improvement in software development processes.

Key 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.

Key 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

Salary (Rate): £525

City: Portsmouth

Country: United Kingdom

Working Arrangements: hybrid

IR35 Status: outside IR35

Seniority Level: Mid-Level

Industry: IT