Generic Business Analyst - Power BI & Azure

eTeam, Inc.; City Of London; On-site; GBP 45,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A technology consulting firm in the City of London seeks a Business Analyst to identify and document the needs of clients and stakeholders. You will translate these needs into functional requirements, assess risks, and collaborate closely with teams to deliver effective business solutions. Strong Agile experience and interpersonal skills are essential for this role which offers a dynamic work environment.

Qualifications

• Understanding of systems engineering concepts.
• Agile experience is an asset.
• Good understanding of Agile frameworks.
• Experience educating stakeholders in Agile practices.
• Attention to detail and analytical problem solving.

Responsibilities

• Capture business needs and requirements precisely.
• Translate requirements into functional specifications.
• Model processes and data flows for improvement.
• Ensure documentation is clear and traceable.
• Work with software suppliers to meet business needs.

Skills

Agile project experience

Interpersonal skills

Analytical problem solving

Understanding of systems engineering

Data modeling concepts

Experience with VSTS

Knowledge of SQL

Familiarity with Alteryx

Proficient in Power BI

Familiar with Microsoft Azure

Tools

VSTS

SQL

Alteryx

Power BI

Microsoft Azure

Job description

Projects Business Analysis is responsible for identifying and documenting the business needs of their clients and stakeholders, and helping to determine feasible solutions to meet business needs or resolve business problems.

This position has the following accountabilities:

• Precisely capture business problems, value drivers, and functional/non-functional requirements, including health, safety, security, usability, data, and supportability considerations.
• Translate business requirements into functionality and assess the risks, feasibility, opportunities, and business impacts of various solution options.
• Assess and model processes, data flows, and technology to understand the current value and issues, and identify opportunities for improvement.
• Create clear documentation to communicate requirements and related information; keep updated to align with the solution over the project lifecycle.
• Ensure traceability of requirements from business needs and requirements, through testing and scope changes, to final solution.
• Interact with software suppliers, designers and developers to understand software limitations, deliver elements of system and database design, and ensure that business requirements and use cases are handled.
• Configure and document software and processes, using agreed standards and tools.
• Create acceptance criteria and validate that solutions meet business needs through defining and coordinating testing.
• Seek guidance from more experienced Client and be open to learning on-the-job.
• Have solid understanding of data modelling concepts and data mapping.

Special Challenges:

• Guide business stakeholders to gain acceptance / sign-off. Manage requirements to the smallest set that will provide the biggest impact in advancing business objectives and end-user buy-in.
• Describe technology in terms easily understood by business customers and set realistic customer expectations for the project outcome. Adjust customer expectations in accordance with changes in scope.
• Generate innovative approaches to existing problems or new opportunities.
• Work closely with stakeholders to build trust and understand their goals, motivations, constraints, risks, and operating environment.

Requirements:

• Understanding of systems engineering concepts.
• Agile project experience is an asset.
• Good understanding and experience of the various Agile frameworks
• Experience working in Agile projects and educating stakeholders including Product Owners and Business partners in Agile ways of working
• Experience in Agile tooling (ex -VSTS) is a must.
• Agile certifications/trainings preferred
• Ability to take a systematic and analytical approach to problem solving and pay close attention to detail.
• Strong interpersonal skills.
• Skills : VSTS, SQL, Alteryx, Power BI, Microsoft Azure