Technical Business Analyst

Vermelo RPO; Manchester; Hybrid; GBP 45,000 - 55,000; Full time

Job summary

A prominent UK insurance services firm is seeking an experienced Technical Business Analyst to join its dynamic IT development team. This hybrid role involves facilitating workshops, translating business needs into requirements, and collaborating with cross-functional teams in an Agile environment. The ideal candidate will possess proven experience in a similar role and strong stakeholder engagement skills. This is an opportunity to work in a supportive culture that values professional growth.

Benefits

Supportive agile culture

Professional development opportunities

Career progression

Qualifications

• Proven experience as a Technical Business Analyst in Agile settings.
• Strong facilitation skills for requirements gathering.
• Ability to build effective relationships with stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Facilitate workshops for requirements gathering.
• Refine, split, and map user stories.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams.

Skills

Technical Business Analyst experience

Agile environment

Facilitation skills

Stakeholder engagement

Workshop facilitation

Effective communication

Jira or similar tools

Collaboration

Tools

Jira

Job description

Technical Business Analyst

Location: This is a hybrid role and can be based from any of our offices in Manchester, Stoke, Southport, Peterborough, Chesterfield or Tunbridge Wells.

Are you a proactive and technically minded Business Analyst ready to thrive in an Agile environment? We re seeking an experienced Technical Business Analyst to join our dynamic IT development team, where innovation and collaboration drive everything we do.

About the Role

As part of a motivated, multi-disciplinary Agile development team, you ll play a key role in delivering high-quality software solutions aligned with business priorities, translating business needs into meaningful requirements. You ll work closely with business stakeholders, Delivery Managers, Senior Business Analysts and your development team to shape and refine user stories for both large-scale projects and smaller enhancements. Your insights will help ensure that every development delivers real value to end users.

You ll also be part of a vibrant Business Analyst community, sharing best practice, championing Agile values, and promoting continuous improvement and self-organisation.

Key Responsibilities

• Facilitate workshops to support requirements gathering and product backlog creation
• Apply a range of techniques to create, refine, split, and map user stories
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure clarity and alignment on requirements
• Support Agile delivery through active participation in ceremonies and sprint planning

Why Join Us?

• Be part of a forward-thinking organisation
• Work in a supportive, agile culture that values your input and growth
• Enjoy opportunities for professional development and career progression

What We re Looking For

• Proven experience in a Technical Business Analyst role within an Agile environment
• Strong facilitation and stakeholder engagement skills; Able to communicate effectively and accurately in a diplomatic manner
• Ability to build & maintain effective working relationships with internal and external personnel
• Workshop facilitation skills for requirements gathering analysis and product backlog refinement
• Demonstrates a variety of techniques to create, refine, split and map User Stories
• A collaborative mindset and a passion for continuous improvement
• Ability to work effectively across multiple change projects/incidents or change activities simultaneously
• Experience of using Jira or similar Agile delivery tools
• Highly self-motivated

About Us

Markerstudy Insurance Services Limited (MISL) is one of the largest Managing General Agents in the UK. With a strong presence in the UK motor insurance market, we specialise in niche motor cover, where our solid market knowledge and experience enables us to create highly targeted products.

Our success is underpinned by our underwriting strategy to identify and apply special risk factors to the customers advantage. That, and our skilled underwriting technicians who are friendly, accessible and empowered to make decisions.

We only transact business through professional UK insurance intermediaries and we take pride in fostering excellent working relationships. Our products feature prominently on Aggregators' sites, such as (url removed), Go Compare and Compare the Market, via our broker partners.