Senior Data Business Analyst

Tesco; Slough; Hybrid; GBP 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Annual bonus up to 20%

Holiday 25 days + personal day

Private medical insurance

Maternity leave 26 weeks (plus)

Paternity leave 6 weeks

24/7 virtual GP

EAP for you and family

Mental wellbeing support

Job summary

Tesco Mobile is seeking a Data Business Analyst to analyse and document business requirements, user stories and data flows across data platform and reporting solutions. You will collaborate with Product Owners, Tribe Leads and stakeholders to define, prioritise and deliver value through data capabilities.

You will coach and mentor junior team members, ensuring clear data requirements and effective delivery across cross-functional squads.

Qualifications

• Three or more years of Business Analysis experience.
• Experience applying agile frameworks (Scrum, Kanban, SAFe, LeSS).
• Strong analytical, business analysis, and process design skills.
• Experience modelling complex data flows and data platforms.

Responsibilities

• Act as primary link between the Data Tribe and stakeholders across Tesco Mobile."
• Scope initiatives and enhancements affecting Data Platforms, Power BI, and Analytics.
• Translate business requirements into clear data requirements for delivery teams.
• Elicit, gather, and refine requirements with stakeholders across Product Tribes and CoEs.
• Ensure traceability between business requirements and implemented solutions.
• Support data architecture alignment and participate in process improvements.

Skills

Business Analysis

Agile Frameworks

Data Modelling

Stakeholder Management

Process Mapping

Data Platforms

Tools

Power BI

Excel

Word

PowerPoint

Job description

What's in it for you

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• Annual bonus scheme of up to 20% of base salary
• Holiday starting at 25 days plus a personal day (plus Bank holidays)
• Private medical insurance
• 26 weeks maternity and adoption leave (12 months service required at the qualifying date) at full pay, followed by 13 weeks of Statutory Maternity Pay or Statutory Adoption Pay, we also offer 6 weeks fully paid paternity leave
• Free 24/7 virtual GP service, Employee Assistance Programme (EAP) for you and your family, free access to a range of experts to support your mental wellbeing

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About the role

As a Data Business Analyst within the Tesco Mobile Agile Tribe, you will analyse and document business requirements, user stories and data flows to support data platform and reporting solutions. Working closely with Product Owners, Tribe Leads and stakeholders, you will ensure requirements are clearly defined, prioritised and delivered effectively across complex initiatives. You will build strong cross-functional relationships, provide expert data analysis, and support the development of junior team members through coaching and mentoring.
You will be responsible for

• Acting as the primary link between the Data Tribe and stakeholders across the wider Tesco Mobile business.
• Scoping initiatives, features, and enhancements impacting Data Tribe squads, including Data Platforms, Power BI, Insight & Analytics, Data Science, and Marketing Platforms.
• Translating business requirements into clear, actionable data requirements for the Data Platforms squad, enabling the delivery of capabilities that support key business outcomes.
• Eliciting, gathering, and refining requirements with stakeholders across Product Tribes, Centres of Excellence (CoEs), and business functions to identify data, insight, and analytics needs.
• Collaborating with delivery squads to ensuring feature requirements and solutions are aligned, integrated, and deliver maximum business value.
• Partnering with Data Product Owners and delivery teams to providing the information and clarity required for successful feature delivery.
• Ensuring full traceability between business requirements, delivered solutions, and organisational Objectives and Key Results (OKRs).
• Defining and supporting business process improvements and operating model changes required to enable new data capabilities.
• Working closely with Data Architects to ensuring solutions align with Tesco Mobile's data architecture principles, standards, and strategic direction.
• Challenging stakeholder requirements and proposed initiatives to ensuring alignment with business priorities, agile principles, and strategic objectives.
• Demonstrating completed features to stakeholders, gathering feedback, and securing business acceptance.
• Supporting and influencing the wider Tesco Mobile Business Analysis community by improving the quality and consistency of requirements relating to data, insight, and analytics capabilities.
• Facilitating collaboration between technical and non-technical stakeholders, ensuring a shared understanding of requirements, dependencies, risks, and delivery outcomes.

You will need

• Demonstrating three or more years of Business Analysis experience, preferably within agile or hybrid delivery environments.
• Applying agile frameworks such as Scrum, Kanban, SAFe, or LeSS to support effective delivery and continuous improvement.
• Utilising strong analytical, business analysis, and process design skills to identify and deliver business value.
• Streamlining and optimising business processes through process mapping, modelling, and continuous improvement techniques.
• Managing and influencing stakeholders at all levels, including senior leaders, while gathering requirements, setting priorities, and resolving issues.
• Understanding and modelling complex data flows, ensuring clear visibility of data movement and dependencies.
• Applying knowledge of data platforms, data management principles, and industry best practices.
• Bridging the gap between technical data teams and business stakeholders through clear and effective communication.
• Evaluating outcomes, reflecting constructively on work delivered, and identifying opportunities to improve efficiency and effectiveness.
• Producing high-quality documentation, presentations, and analysis using Microsoft Excel, Word, and PowerPoint.
• Utilising business process modelling and data modelling tools to capture and communicate requirements effectively.

About us

A 50-50 joint venture between Tesco and VMO2 that was established back in 2003, Tesco Mobile has gone from strength to strength as we've launched into new services and markets. With more than 5 million customers, we're the largest mobile virtual network operator in the UK. We're proud to have an inclusive culture that's uniquely Tesco Mobile, with a strong sense of community, plus all the benefits of working for one of the shareholders.

We care for human connection and we keep our customers at the heart of everything we do, which is why we've embraced the Agile way of working. Agile is more than just a methodology - it's a liberating journey that puts customers and purpose first. It empowers us to self-organise, collaborate, co-create and rapidly inspect and adapt everything we do - allowing us to respond at pace to our customers' needs. It encourages variety of thought and enables us to thrive, both individually and collectively.

We are proud to have an inclusive culture at Tesco where everyone truly feels able to be themselves. At Tesco, we not only celebrate diversity, but recognise the value and opportunity it brings. We're committed to creating a workplace where differences are valued, and make sure that all colleagues are given the same opportunities. We're proud to have been accredited Disability Confident Leader and we're committed to providing a fully inclusive and accessible recruitment process. For further information on the accessibility support we can offer, please click here .

We're a big business and we can offer a range of diverse full-time & part-time working patterns across our many business areas, which means that we can find something that works for you. We work in a more blended pattern - combining office and remote working. Our offices will continue to be where we connect, collaborate and innovate. If you are applying internally, please speak to the Hiring Manager about how this can work for you - Everyone is welcome at Tesco.