Business Analysis Manager - Agile & Strategy

DLA Piper LLP

Leeds

On-site

GBP 65,000 - 90,000

Full time

11 days ago

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Job summary

DLA Piper LLP is recruiting a Business Analysis Manager to lead a team delivering business analysis across IT, working with Product and Platform Teams. The role focuses on high‑profile data analysis, shaping change initiatives and coaching others in analysis methodologies.

You will embed agile practices and provide commercially insightful reporting to stakeholders. You will plan work across the BA team, balance stakeholder demands, and ensure alignment with IT goals, driving effective change

Qualifications

Experience of leading and managing Business Analysis teams.
Pro‑active, helping to guide and steer both the analysis and approach.
Extensive knowledge of systems, development methods, techniques and standards.
Experience of working in an enterprise environment and a broad understanding of application architecture and the underlying hardware infrastructure.
Skilled in using Business Analysis techniques and Information Modelling tools.
Good understanding of different development approaches e.g. Agile, XP, TDD, SCRUM, Waterfall and how to apply these.
Familiarity with Lean Agile thinking / ways of working, and DevOps.
Knowledge of and able to work with application development tools, Big Data, Data Analytics and AI.
Planning and Control Techniques - Methods and techniques associated with planning and monitoring progress of change initiatives or projects.
Excellent presentation skills, either face‑to‑face or online within various contexts and to a variety of audiences.
Stakeholder Management - establishing relationships, analysing perspectives and managing stakeholders from a variety of backgrounds and disciplines.
Strong commercial and strategic awareness
Advocate and champion open and transparent communication with the department and team, ensuring success is celebrated and impediments are learned from. Encourages team collaboration with others to achieve a common goal

Responsibilities

Leads a Business Analysis team, providing guidance, support and strategic direction, prioritising and planning activities, and ensuring that delivery is completed on schedule and to a professional standard
Developing and coaching the Business Analysis team
Liaising with stakeholders in Product Teams, Platform Team and other stakeholders in IT and/or the business to investigate and shape change/project definition, the analysis approach and resource planning
Championing and embedding agile ways of working across the Business Analysis team
Ensures the vision, drivers, objectives and benefits are understood, documented, managed and traced throughout the lifecycle of initiatives
Takes responsibility for work to investigate business problems and opportunities, and specify required changes to business processes, people skills, information, technology and organisation structures and roles, utilising Customer Experience / Journey Mapping techniques where appropriate
Works effectively with senior business and IT stakeholders, conducting investigations at a strategic level and assuring the feasibility of proposed solutions
Ensures that a holistic view is taken of the business situations investigated and that business objectives and requirements are understood
Advises senior stakeholders on business change priorities within the context of the organisational strategy and objectives
Utilises business knowledge and experience to assess and advise on the feasibility and relevance of proposed options for business and technical change
Takes responsibility for the detailed specification and modelling of holistic solutions using standards, methods and techniques as required
Engages effectively with senior stakeholders to develop and review models, communicate modelling results and resolve any issues or disagreements
Models, simulates or prototypes the behaviour of proposed systems components to enable approval by stakeholders
Undertakes impact analysis on major design options and trade‑off. Makes recommendations and assesses and manages associated risks
Plans and performs all types of user experience evaluation to check and confirm that usability and accessibility requirements have been met. Selects appropriate use of formative or summative evaluations