Business Analyst

Job Description

Job Title: Business Analyst

Location: Dublin 1, Hybrid, 3 days per week onsite

Contract / Permanent: 6 months with further extension

Start date: June 2023

Experience Level Required:

It is a mandatory requirement, that the Resource proposed has in excess of four years of recent Business Analysis Experience which at least two years has been working as Business Analyst in an Agile Project methodology environment.

Key Deliverable:

The candidate will be required to work on a number of different current and upcoming small changes and larger projects that are at various stages in their lifecycle, mainly within the ESMA Delivery Unit team but also on other teams. The BA will be required to produce some or all the following deliverables:

• Refined product backlogs using AzDo to include Epics, Features and User Stories, story maps, personas in line with Agile best practice.
• Process flow diagrams of As-Is and To-Be processes.
• Value stream maps
• High Level and Detailed Requirements Documents covering both functional and non-functional requirements.
• Requirements Traceability Matrices
• UX Wireframes, user journeys

Key Experience/Competencies/Skillsets:

The following Experience/Competencies/Skillsets are applicable to this Role.

• Experience of working on a number of large and complex projects in a Business Analyst role that have been delivered using the Agile Methodology.
• Experience in business analysis techniques particularly in the following areas:

o Backlog refinement and backlog management

o Requirements elicitation and management in an Agile environment (incl. creation of Product Backlogs, writing user stories, personas, story maps, etc)

o Business process analysis and modeling.

o UI / UX experience

o Data mapping & data analysis

o Workshop scheduling and facilitation (including virtual and hybrid);

o Value stream mapping

o Producing detailed and accurate requirements specifications.

• Possessing well-defined stakeholder management skills, including managing challenging stakeholders.
• Having the following skills/competencies:

o excellent interpersonal skills.

o be comfortable working within a team environment.

o be decisive, organized self-starters.

o Independently plan their work based on moving priorities, estimate their activities and deliver on commitments.

o ability to work on multiple parallel changes.

o Comfortable working with data models and data mapping.

o Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills.

o Ability to identify the implications of the solution to be delivered.

o Consider other projects and initiatives - see the bigger picture.

o a good understanding of formal project management and Agile processes and ceremonies

o Comfortable to challenge constructively.

o Detail orientated.

o Able to Identify continuous improvement opportunities.