Business Analyst - Fixed Term Contract (Mat Cover)

Olive Jar Digital; London; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading digital consultancy is seeking a Business Analyst for a fixed-term contract. You will utilize Agile methodologies to guide public sector clients through their digital transformation journey, leveraging your experience in business analysis and stakeholder engagement.

Qualifications

• Experience in public sector digital product delivery using GDS.
• Ability to lead analysis in multi-disciplinary Agile teams.
• Comfortable designing process improvements supported by technology.

Responsibilities

• Lead business research initiatives and analysis for digital transformation projects.
• Work with stakeholders to strategically shape complex projects.
• Map business processes and identify pain points.

Skills

Agile methodologies

Business analysis

Stakeholder management

Data modeling

Digital transformation

Process improvement

Communication

Job description

Business Analyst - Fixed Term Contract (Mat Cover)

Understanding, analyzing, and validating clients' pain points. Can you exercise these Business Analyst fundamentals whilst helping clients navigate complex project landscapes?

Would you relish the challenge of understanding the complexities of each stage of a project lifecycle, helping clients achieve their Digital Transformation goals, and establishing internal best practices?

You'll join a project team and draw upon your consultancy or GDS (Government Digital Service) experience to navigate our clients through each phase of the project lifecycle from Discovery to Live. Being a champion of the Agile methodology and thriving on the flexibility of consultancy work will be qualities that empower you to be a success for not just Olive Jar Digital but our clients too.

What you'll be doing

• You'll be working in multidisciplinary teams utilizing Agile methodologies on Public Sector projects abiding by the Government Digital Standards (GDS).
• You'll be working closely with key stakeholders at our Public Sector clients and enabling them to strategically shape and analyze their complex Digital Transformation projects.
• You'll be leading business research initiatives, mapping end-to-end business processes, conducting data modeling, and identifying known frictions and pain points.
• You'll be responsible for shaping the culture of practice around your domain internally at Olive Jar Digital.

About you/Experience

• You can strategically shape and lead analysis as part of multi-disciplinary teams operating within programme, portfolio, or scaled agile methodologies.
• You have demonstrable experience of successfully contributing to the delivery of Digital products and projects in the Public Sector using GDS.
• You can select the appropriate business modeling techniques that are most effective to help people understand situations, problems, and solutions.
• You are comfortable designing and influencing improvements to business structures, processes, and information flows supported appropriately with automation and technology.
• You are a confident and clear communicator, comfortable working with strategic stakeholders to establish and deliver goals efficiently.

About Us

As we grow, we empower our teams to develop their roles and functions and offer support to get you from where you are now, to where you want to be.

This has enabled us to become recognized as the 'UK's fastest growing digital consultancy of the year 2021'. Moving towards our 9th year, we are now an established brand, building digital products and services and championing the provision of expert talent to enhance customer and in-house teams, satisfying all user needs.

We are a professional, fun, fully inclusive, and diverse digital agency, valuing everyone's opinion. Our team is small in quantity but with a huge growth plan over the next two years, we are looking to expand our client-facing delivery team with designers, developers, and testers as we continue to expand our project portfolio.

• Locations include Albany, New York, United States of America, and London, UK.