Senior agile business analyst
Posted 5 days ago by Adroit People Limited (UK)
Negotiable
Undetermined
Hybrid
London Area, United Kingdom
Summary: The Senior Agile Business Analyst & Lean Specialist role in London involves collaborating with stakeholders and development teams to enhance automation solutions and streamline processes. The position requires documenting processes, creating user stories, and mentoring junior analysts while ensuring effective communication and project management. This hybrid role emphasizes the application of Agile and Lean methodologies to improve efficiency and performance.
Key Responsibilities:
- Collaborate with stakeholders to identify and analyse business requirements, and translate them into clear and concise user stories
- Create wireframe for User stories as part of the Definition of Ready
- Write acceptance criteria using BDD
- Ensure there is a healthy backlog at times
- Prepare value statements for PI planning
- Work with the development team to ensure that user stories are implemented correctly and meet business requirements
- Support release schedules including UAT with business stakeholders
- Identify opportunities for automation across various functions and processes
- Analyse and evaluate current processes to determine feasibility and ROI of automation
- Develop and implement automation solutions using Lean methodologies
- Monitor and continuously improve automated processes to ensure optimal performance and efficiency
- Map end-to-end processes to understand process flow
- Develop value stream maps to identify opportunities for process improvement and automation
- Mentor Junior ABA’s on the team
Key Skills:
- Knowledge of Agile methodologies and principles, creating as is and to be end-to-end process value stream mapping
- Experience working in an Agile scrum development environment
- Writing user stories from requirements provided by Stakeholders
- Writing Acceptance criteria's for the requirements to be classed as definition of Ready
- Knowledge of Lean methodologies and principles
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
- Excellent communication, stakeholder management and interpersonal skills
- Ability to work collaboratively with cross-functional teams
- Ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously
- Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Computer Science, or related field
- Knowledge of Agile methodologies and tools such as Scrum, Kanban, and JIRA
- 3+ years of experience as an Agile Business Analyst or similar role
- Experience with automation tools and technologies
- Creating Epics and user stories in Jira
Salary (Rate): undetermined
City: London
Country: United Kingdom
Working Arrangements: hybrid
IR35 Status: undetermined
Seniority Level: undetermined
Industry: IT
Greetings ! We are Hiring Senior Agile BA & Lean Specialist position in London, UK 6 Months contract 2-3 days onsite, Hybrid Model
Senior Agile BA & Lean Specialist Role purpose
In this role, you will collaborate closely with stakeholders and development teams to identify automation solutions and streamline processes for greater efficiency. Your role will involve working closely with cross-functional Dev teams to pinpoint opportunities for automation, document end-to-end processes, and create value stream maps that can be translated into actionable user stories.
Key Responsibilities:
- Collaborate with stakeholders to identify and analyse business requirements, and translate them into clear and concise user stories
- Create wireframe for User stories as part of the Definition of Ready
- Write acceptance criteria using BDD.
- Ensure there is a healthy backlog at times.
- Prepare value statements for PI planning.
- Work with the development team to ensure that user stories are implemented correctly and meet business requirements
- Support release schedules including UAT with business stakeholders.
- Identify opportunities for automation across various functions and processes
- Analyse and evaluate current processes to determine feasibility and ROI of automation
- Develop and implement automation solutions using Lean methodologies
- Monitor and continuously improve automated processes to ensure optimal performance and efficiency
- Identify opportunities for automation across various functions and processes
- Map end-to-end processes to understand process flow and Develop value stream maps to identify opportunities for process improvement and automation
- Mentor Junior ABA’s on the team.
Key responsibilities & accountabilities
Essential Must have
- Knowledge of Agile methodologies and principles, creating as is and to be end-to-end process value stream mapping
- Experience working in an Agile scrum development environment
- Writing user stories from requirements provided by Stakeholders
- Writing Acceptance criteria's for the requirements to be classed as definition of Ready
Skills, knowledge, or experience
Essential Must have
- Knowledge of Lean methodologies and principles
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
- Excellent communication, stakeholder management and interpersonal skills
- Ability to work collaboratively with cross-functional teams
- Ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously
Should / nice to have
- Soft Skills
- Interaction with external stake holders / Customers
- Ability to embrace changes.
- Ability to identify and realise improvement opportunities.
- Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Computer Science, or related field
- Knowledge of Agile methodologies and tools such as Scrum, Kanban, and JIRA
- 3+ years of experience as an Agile Business Analyst or similar role
- Hard Technical
- Experience with automation tools and technologies
- Creating Epics and user stories in Jira