IT Business Analyst

CACI Ltd; Cheltenham; Hybrid; GBP 40,000 - 50,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading software engineering consultancy in Cheltenham seeks a Business Analyst to gather and document system information while facilitating communication between users and developers. Candidates should have significant experience working in Agile environments on IT-based projects and possess strong relationship-building skills. The position offers a competitive salary along with benefits including flexi-time, training budgets, and a matched pension scheme. Remote working is also an option.

Benefits

Flexi-time

Learning budget for training

Social events

Matched pension and healthcare

Qualifications

• Previous experience in IT-based Government, Defence, or similar software projects.
• Experience with the project lifecycle from initial scoping to closure.
• Comfortable working with minimal supervision and organizing workload.
• Ability to understand Software Engineering and Agile methodologies.

Responsibilities

• Gathering, validating, and documenting system information and needs.
• Building client relationships to understand business challenges.
• Ensuring customers know how to use applications through various mediums.
• Identifying solutions through technology or process changes.
• Supporting the development of new products for clients.

Skills

Experience as a Business Analyst

Ability to build relationships

Agile methodologies (Scrum, Kanban)

Strong communication skills

Job description

Who we are:

Founded in 2006, CACI Information Intelligence Group (IIG) is an exciting, growing and progressive business unit within CACI UK. We currently have over 600 intelligent, professional and engaging staff. Through a rigorous emphasis on quality, the company has grown considerably to become one of the UK's most well-respected Software Engineering consultancies.

CACI IIG support government departments to use information intelligently to make mission critical decisions and advance the security, sustainability and prosperity for the UK.

The Role:

As a Business Analyst within CACI Information Intelligence Group (IIG), you will work with Senior Analyst's and other subject matter professionals in gathering, validating, and documenting various system information and needs. Working across a number of interesting and varied software development projects, you will play an senior role on projects, conducting in-depth evaluation and verification of the capabilities of systems, serving as a point of contact between the end-users and software developers, to ensure that product information is properly disseminated.

The IT Business Analyst role consists of a wide range of responsibilities including;

• Building relationships with clients to understand their business challenges and how we can help to deliver a solution to solve these issues.
• Prioritise key objectives to understand the importance of features and advise customers where appropriate.
• Ensure customers are aware of how to use our applications - this may be through Webinar's, face-to-face training, creation of YouTube content or updating online help materials.
• Understand elements of Software Engineering and AGILE methodology to translate those objectives into clear technical requirements with the support of the Engineering team.
• Guide the customer in implementing changes.
• Identify where problems are best solved by technology or process changes.
• Support the development of new products for the customer.

The Fit:

• The successful candidate have previous experience as a Business Analyst working on IT based Government, Defence or equivalent software projects.
• You will have experience at all stages of the project lifecycle from initial scoping through to closure and be comfortable owning Business Analysis related activities on your projects.
• You must have experience working in Agile environments using methodologies such as Scrum and Kanban.
• You will have strong relationship skills, able to build long standing trusted partnerships with our clients and be comfortable presenting to individuals at various levels of seniority.
• In addition you will be comfortable working with minimal supervision, organising your workload to meet deadlines as required.

Due to the industries we work in, we require all our team to be able to obtain security clearance. To qualify for this, you must be a British passport holder and have lived permanently in the UK for the last 5 years.

Benefits:

The IT Business Analyst role is an excellent opportunity, and CACI reward their staff well with a competitive salary and impressive benefits package which includes:

• Flexi-time: 37.5 hour weeks to structure how you want with working from home available
• Learning: Budget for conferences, training courses and other materials
• Social: Fantastic culture with monthly social events
• Future You: Matched pension and health care package

We have offices based in Plymouth, Cardiff, Bristol, Cheltenham, Manchester and London where you can work from, alternatively we are happy for you to work from home, occasionally visiting clients as required.

We understand the importance of getting to know your colleagues. Whole company meetings are held every quarter, and a training/work brief weekend is held once a year, amongst many other social events.

Equal Opportunities:

CACI is proud to be an equal opportunities employer. Embracing the diversity of our people, we are on a journey to build a truly inclusive work environment where no one is treated less favourably due to ethnic origin, age, sex, gender identity, veteran status, religion or belief, sexual orientation, marital status and disability or health condition, actively working to prevent discrimination.

As a Disability Confident employer, we will;

• Provide reasonable adjustments in the recruitment process where requested (contact a member of the recruitment team on 020 7602 6000 to discuss individual requirements further).
• Offer people with health conditions and disabilities, meeting the minimum criteria for a role, an interview.

Our people are unique and we encourage, and support them, to be confident in contributing to our inclusion journey.