Business Analyst

Ellison Institute of Technology; Oxford; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

25 days annual leave

Pension 7.5%

Private Medical Insurance

Life Assurance

Cycle to Work Scheme

Nursery Salary Sacrifice

Employee discounts

Travel allowance

Job summary

Ellison Institute of Technology (EIT) in Oxford is seeking an experienced Business Analyst to bridge business needs with technology delivery. You will define requirements, prioritise delivery, and ensure business value is realised across Agile, Hybrid, and Waterfall projects.

You will own and manage product backlogs, collaborate with stakeholders and development teams, and support UAT planning and readiness activities. This hybrid role requires onsite presence in Oxford multiple days weekly.

Qualifications

• Proven experience as a Business Analyst.
• Experience delivering Agile, Hybrid, and Waterfall projects.
• Proven expertise with Jira and Confluence
• Strong experience with business process modelling, gap analysis, and requirement traceability.
• Excellent communication skills (verbal, written, and presentation).
• Ability to work independently and lead requirement efforts across multiple teams.
• Experience facilitating workshops and stakeholder engagement sessions.
• Excellent analytical and problem‑solving abilities with experience managing product backlogs and prioritisation.
• Experience supporting UAT and business readiness activities.

Responsibilities

• Elicit, analyse, document, and validate business requirements.
• Facilitate workshops, interviews, and discovery sessions with stakeholders.
• Analyse current and future state processes and identify improvement opportunities.
• Support business process re‑engineering initiatives.
• Ensure solutions meet business requirements and strategic objectives.
• Own and manage product backlogs.
• Work closely with the Business Stakeholders to prioritise features, user stories, and enhancements based on business value.
• Work closely with development teams to clarify requirements and acceptance criteria.
• Operate effectively within Agile, Hybrid, and Waterfall delivery environments.
• Collaborate with Delivery Leads to manage scope, risks, dependencies, and change requests.
• Ensure traceability from business requirements through to solution delivery and testing.
• Support UAT planning, execution, and sign‑off.

Skills

Jira

Confluence

Agile

Waterfall

Stakeholder management

Backlog management

Requirements tracing

Workshops

Tools

Visio

Lucidchart

Job description

Description

Join us at EIT:

At the Ellison Institute of Technology (EIT), we're on a mission to translate scientific discovery into real world impact. We bring together visionary scientists, technologists, engineers, researchers, educators and innovators to tackle humanity's greatest challenges in four transformative areas:

• Health, Medical Science & Generative Biology
• Food Security & Sustainable Agriculture
• Climate Change & Managing CO₂
• Artificial Intelligence & Robotics

This is ambitious work - work that demands curiosity, courage, and a relentless drive to make a difference. At EIT, you'll join a community built on excellence, innovation, tenacity, trust, and collaboration, where bold ideas become real-world breakthroughs. Together, we push boundaries, embrace complexity, and create solutions to scale ideas from lab to society. Explore more at www.eit.org .

Your Role:

At EIT we are seeking an experienced and detail orientated Business Analyst to bridge business needs and technology delivery. The successful candidate will work closely with stakeholders, business teams, development teams, and Technical Leads to define requirements, prioritise delivery, and ensure business value is realised.

The ideal candidate will have extensive experience delivering projects using Agile, Hybrid, and Waterfall methodologies, with strong stakeholder management skills and hands‑on experience using Jira for backlog management, requirements tracking, and reporting.

Your Responsibilities:

Business Analysis

• Elicit, analyse, document, and validate business requirements.
• Facilitate workshops, interviews, and discovery sessions with stakeholders.
• Analyse current and future state processes and identify improvement opportunities.
• Support business process re‑engineering initiatives.
• Ensure solutions meet business requirements and strategic objectives.
• Own and manage product backlogs.
• Work closely with the Business Stakeholders to prioritise features, user stories, and enhancements based on business value.
• Work closely with development teams to clarify requirements and acceptance criteria.
• Operate effectively within Agile, Hybrid, and Waterfall delivery environments.
• Collaborate with Delivery Leads to manage scope, risks, dependencies, and change requests.
• Ensure traceability from business requirements through to solution delivery and testing.
• Support UAT planning, execution, and sign‑off.

Stakeholder Management

• Build strong relationships across business and technology functions.
• Communicate effectively with stakeholders at all levels, including senior leadership.

Jira & Delivery Tooling

• Create and maintain Epics, Features, Stories, Tasks, and Defects within Jira.
• Manage and prioritise product backlogs using Jira.
• Work with Confluence to document project artefacts.

Requirements

Essential Skills, Qualifications & Experience:

• Proven experience as a Business Analyst.
• Proven experience delivering projects within Agile, Hybrid delivery approaches and Waterfall methodologies.
• Proven expertise with Atlassian tools - particularly Jira and Confluence
• Strong experience with business process modelling, gap analysis, and requirement traceability.
• Excellent communication skills (verbal, written, and presentation).
• Ability to work independently and lead requirement efforts across multiple teams.
• Experience facilitating workshops and stakeholder engagement sessions.
• Excellent analytical and problem‑solving abilities with experience managing product backlogs and prioritisation.
• Experience supporting UAT and business readiness activities.

Desirable Skills, Qualifications & Experience:

• Experience working within enterprise transformation programmes.
• Experience working with third‑party vendors.
• Data analysis and reporting experience.
• Knowledge of process modelling tools such as Visio, Lucidchart etc.

Benefits

We offer the following benefits:

• Competitive salary (dependent on experience) + travel allowance + bonus
• Enhanced holiday. Our annual leave allowance is 25 days plus 8 bank holidays and an additional 3 days between Christmas and New Year. You will also have the opportunity to purchase an additional 5 days annual leave in January and July.
• Pension - Employer contribution 7.5%, minimum employee contribution 5%
• Life Assurance.
• Income Protection
• Private Medical Insurance as standard for you, your partner and any dependents. Including hospital Cash Plan
• Employee discounts
• Electric car scheme
• Nursery Salary Sacrifice scheme
• Cycle to Work Scheme
• Family Planning
• Neurodiversity support including advise and assessments
• Coaching & Therapy services

Working Together - What It Involves:

• You must have the right to work permanently in the UK with a willingness to travel as necessary.
• You will live in, or within easy commuting distance of, Oxford (or be willing to relocate).
• Please note this is a hybrid working position where a minimum of 3 working days is required to be worked onsite in our Oxford office each week.