Hybrid Technical Business Analyst – Agile & Jira

Markerstudy Group; Salford; Hybrid; GBP 42,000 - 60,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health care cash plan

Yearly bonus scheme

24 days annual leave plus Bank Holiday

Life Assurance 4x annual salary

Vibrant, modern offices

Job summary

Markerstudy Group is seeking a proactive Technical Business Analyst to join one of our agile product teams. This hybrid role allows base from several offices across the UK and requires translating complex business needs into clear user stories and acceptance criteria.

You will work with Product Owners, developers, testers and stakeholders, facilitating workshops, refining the backlog and driving continuous improvement to deliver high‑quality digital solutions for colleagues and customers.

Qualifications

• Proven experience as a Business Analyst or Technical BA in an Agile delivery environment.
• Strong requirements elicitation, analysis and documentation skills.
• Experience facilitating workshops and engaging effectively with stakeholders at all levels.
• Ability to translate complex business needs into clear user stories, requirements and acceptance criteria.
• Experience working collaboratively with engineers, testers and other technical stakeholders.
• Strong communication, influencing and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to communicate accurately and diplomatically.
• Experience using a variety of Business Analysis techniques to refine, split and map user stories.
• Ability to work effectively in a fast-paced environment with evolving priorities and ambiguous requirements.
• Experience using Jira or similar Agile delivery tools.
• Ability to build and maintain effective working relationships across business and technology teams.
• Ability to manage multiple projects, initiatives or change activities simultaneously.
• Highly self-motivated, organised and proactive, with a strong focus on delivery and outcomes.
• A collaborative mindset and passion for continuous improvement.

Responsibilities

• Facilitate workshops to elicit and validate requirements.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to understand objectives, challenges and opportunities.
• Create, refine, split and map user stories using Agile techniques within Jira.
• Define clear acceptance criteria to support development, testing and validation.
• Work with cross-functional teams to ensure requirements are understood and delivered.
• Analyse system integrations, data flows and dependencies for successful delivery.
• Assess existing processes to identify improvement opportunities.
• Support backlog refinement, sprint planning and other Agile ceremonies.
• Manage and communicate requirements, assumptions, risks and dependencies throughout delivery.
• Contribute to continuous improvement of BA practices and standards.
• Build strong relationships with internal stakeholders, suppliers and delivery teams.

Skills

Agile analysis

Requirements elicitation

User stories

Stakeholder management

Jira

Communication

Documentation

Cross-functional collaboration

Backlog refinement

Tools

Jira

Job description

Markerstudy Group is seeking a proactive Technical Business Analyst to join one of our agile product teams. This hybrid role allows base from several offices across the UK and requires translating complex business needs into clear user stories and acceptance criteria.

You will work with Product Owners, developers, testers and stakeholders, facilitating workshops, refining the backlog and driving continuous improvement to deliver high‑quality digital solutions for colleagues and customers.