Data Business Analyst

Data Business Analyst – OUTSIDE IR35 – SECURITY CLEARED

Start date: ASAP

Duration: 12 Months

Location: 2 days every 2 weeks in Portsmouth rest of the month working from home

Rate: £525 per day OUTSIDE IR35

SECURITY CLEARANCE REQUIRED

Summary:

Data focussed BA to work within our clients’ team on Palantir based solutions.

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.

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