Hybrid Technical Business Analyst – AI-Driven Product

Oliver James Group; Manchester; Hybrid; GBP 45,000 - 65,000; Full time

Job summary

Oliver James Group in Manchester is seeking a Technical Business Analyst to bridge business requirements and software development for AI-led products. You will work with engineers, product stakeholders, data teams and QA in a hybrid setup.

Role involves translating technical concepts for non-technical audiences, maintaining the backlog in Jira/Confluence and using product analytics to drive evidence-based decisions.

Qualifications

• Proven experience as a Business Analyst or Technical Business Analyst in software development.
• Experience working within a Scrum team.
• Strong experience writing user stories and acceptance criteria.
• Experience managing and prioritising a product backlog.
• Strong understanding of software development lifecycles and Agile delivery.
• Experience using Jira and Confluence.
• Ability to understand technical solutions, including APIs, integrations, databases and data models.
• Strong requirements elicitation, analysis and process mapping skills.
• Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Elicit and document business requirements, user stories and acceptance criteria.
• Work with stakeholders to understand business processes, user needs and desired outcomes.
• Analyse and document complex processes, workflows and data flows.
• Maintain and prioritise the product backlog in Jira.
• Support sprint planning, refinement, reviews and retrospectives.
• Work closely with developers to understand technical solutions, integrations and data models.
• Translate technical concepts into clear language for non-technical stakeholders.
• Review APIs, data structures and system behaviour to ensure requirements are feasible and testable.
• Identify gaps, dependencies and risks early in the delivery process.
• Use product analytics and data to understand user behaviour and measure the impact of changes.
• Use SQL to query and validate data where required.
• Define success measures for new features and assess outcomes following release.
• Work with QA to develop test approaches and ensure acceptance criteria are testable.
• Support testing to validate that solutions meet stakeholder expectations.
• Maintain requirements, process maps, solution documentation and decision logs in Confluence.
• Use data and customer insight to support backlog prioritisation and product decisions.
• Identify opportunities to improve processes and ways of working.

Skills

Jira & Confluence

Stakeholder management

SQL

APIs & data models

Agile / Scrum

Tools

SQL

Job description

Oliver James Group in Manchester is seeking a Technical Business Analyst to bridge business requirements and software development for AI-led products. You will work with engineers, product stakeholders, data teams and QA in a hybrid setup.

Role involves translating technical concepts for non-technical audiences, maintaining the backlog in Jira/Confluence and using product analytics to drive evidence-based decisions.