Agile Business Analyst

AMS; United Kingdom; Hybrid; GBP 35,000 - 55,000; Full time

Job summary

AMS is seeking a Business Analyst to support the development of services. In this role, you will provide analytical support, collaborate across business units, and lead Scrum ceremonies. Ideal candidates will have experience in Agile environments, excellent communication skills, and a proactive mindset for problem-solving. This position offers a chance to enhance your career in a collaborative culture with significant training and development opportunities.

Benefits

Full training and support

Flexible working

Competitive reward and benefits package

Qualifications

• Experience as a Business Analyst in an Agile development team.
• Experience leading Scrum ceremonies.
• Strong decision-making and project management skills.

Responsibilities

• Providing analytical support for feature development.
• Collaborating with other business units to deliver business solutions.
• Leading Scrum ceremonies, including stand-ups and planning.

Skills

Agile development

Scrum leadership

Decision-making

Communication

Tools

DevOps

Visio

Job description

About Us

Pioneers from the start. And we're still at it.

At AMS, we believe in nurturing talent and fostering a culture where passion for success thrives. As part of our commitment to your growth and development, we encourage you to explore opportunities available within our organisation. Your talent is our greatest asset, and we're dedicated to providing avenues for you to reach its fullest potential. We do so by providing the environment, resources, networks, and career experiences essential for your progress.

Take the next step in your career journey and discover our exciting opportunities.

The Role

Do you consider yourself to be a solutions-focused, innovative thinker who thrives on overcoming obstacles? Then, we want to hear from you!

At AMS, we're always looking for ways to develop and enhance our services, and our Service Enablement function is no different. We're currently recruiting a Technology professional to join us as a Business Analyst supporting the development of new and existing services.

This role offers you the chance to grow your skills and become a subject matter expert in one of our key growth areas. While the role will challenge you at times, we offer significant training and development opportunities so you can help us advance what we do and offer to our diverse client portfolio.

Key Accountabilities

What you'll be doing:

As a Business Analyst within our Service Enablement function, your main responsibilities will include:

• Providing analytical support for feature development.
• Proactively investigating and assessing issues and trends and offering insight and recommendations to the team.
• Collaborating with other business units to deliver business solutions.
• Support the creation and management of User Stories.
• Supporting the testing of services and processes.
• Assisting Delivery Management in sharing updates on roadmap items and timelines, ensuring effective communication across Technology, Strategy, and Operational teams.
• Leading Scrum ceremonies, including stand-ups, refinements, and poker planning.
• Sharing information at varying technical levels to suit different stakeholders.
• Understanding and supporting the achievement of operational performance metrics.
• Compiling and reporting insights from defect reports, supporting action plans based on these insights.

Skills & Experience

Core Skills and Experience

To succeed in this role, you'll bring:

• Experience as a Business Analyst in an Agile development team.
• Experience leading Scrum ceremonies.
• Familiarity with backlog management tools (e.g., DevOps) and system modelling tools (e.g., Visio).
• Proven ability to define and refine backlog items.
• Experience in understanding customer needs and creating business requirements.
• Strong decision-making and project management skills, with the ability to resolve complex problems independently.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.

Desirable (but not essential)

We're especially keen to hear from you if you have:

• A technical understanding of the challenges of SaaS solutions.
• Experience running requirements-gathering workshops.
• Exposure to AI or machine learning concepts.
• A background in recruitment.

Other

Every one of us plays a pivotal role in our success, whether engaging directly with clients or shaping the value we add behind the scenes. Together, it means more insight and expertise for our clients and more exciting career paths and experiences for us.

Apart from our benefits package, you'll also get to enjoy the flexibility, autonomy, and trust to work in a way that works best for you. We just focus on providing the means to meet, collaborate, and support each other however you choose.

We offer:

• Full training and support
• High value and challenging work
• A vibrant, diverse, and collaborative culture
• Flexible working
• A competitive reward and benefits package*
• The opportunity to embark on a recruitment career with one of the world's leading recruitment companies

*Details may vary slightly depending on your location, local labour law, etc.

Our culture of inclusion and belonging.

We welcome applications from people of all backgrounds, and all aspects of employment are based on merit, qualifications, and business needs. We do not discriminate based upon age, disability, gender identity, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex, sexual orientation, or any other applicable legally protected characteristic.

If you require any accommodations or have any accessibility needs, please reach out via email [e-mail] or make a member of our Talent Acquisition team aware at any time.

Hit the Apply now button to get your journey started!