Technical Business Analyst: Discovery, Prototyping & AI

Parall; Leeds; Hybrid; GBP 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Private medical insurance

Private dental care

Pension with Salary Sacrifice

Hybrid working

Flexible working

25 days annual leave

Enhanced parental leave

Enhanced sick pay

Hackathons

PD days and training

Free lunch in office Thursdays

Team socials

Job summary

Parallax is seeking a Technical Business Analyst to help clients understand challenges, map processes and explore technology-led solutions. You’ll engage from early sales conversations through delivery, translating business needs into actionable workstreams and tangible artefacts with AI-assisted tools to speed validation.

You’ll collaborate with engineering, design and QA to ensure outcomes align with client goals, balancing upfront analysis with iterative learning in an agile setting.

Qualifications

• Experience as a technical business analyst, or in a similar role connecting business needs with technical delivery
• Experience leading or contributing substantially to discovery, including stakeholder interviews, workshops, process mapping and problem definition
• The ability to understand a client's business and translate ambiguous challenges into clear opportunities, requirements and actionable workstreams
• Strong technical understanding of digital products and systems, including APIs, integrations, data models and architecture, with the confidence to investigate existing systems and discuss implementation options with engineers
• Practical experience using AI-assisted tools and prototyping approaches to explore ideas and test assumptions, with the judgement to assess their outputs critically
• Experience working with agile delivery teams, refining requirements as projects progress and balancing upfront analysis with learning through delivery
• Strong stakeholder management and facilitation skills, including the ability to explain technical concepts to non-technical audiences and advise senior clients
• The ability to define clear, testable functional and non-functional requirements at an appropriate level of detail
• Commercial awareness of scope, effort, value and trade-offs, and confidence helping clients prioritise

Responsibilities

• Support sales conversations by exploring client challenges, asking insightful questions and helping shape credible approaches, scopes and proposals
• Build a clear understanding of clients' businesses, including their users, processes, systems, data, commercial goals and operational constraints
• Plan and facilitate discovery workshops and stakeholder interviews to map current processes, understand root causes and define desired outcomes
• Work with engineering and design to identify and evaluate potential technical solutions, considering feasibility, value, effort, risk and ongoing support
• Use AI-assisted tools, lightweight prototypes and proofs of concept to explore options, test assumptions and make ideas tangible for clients and the team
• Translate discovery findings into clear workstreams, priorities and delivery plans, identifying dependencies and opportunities to deliver value incrementally
• Create practical artefacts that help people make decisions and build: process maps, user journeys, data flows, functional and non-functional requirements, and prioritised backlogs
• Stay involved throughout delivery, refining requirements, resolving questions and assessing the impact of new information or changing priorities
• Advise clients and colleagues on options and trade-offs, explaining technical considerations clearly and challenging assumptions constructively
• Work closely with delivery, engineering, design and QA to ensure work is well understood, testable and aligned with the intended outcomes

Skills

Technical BA

Discovery workshops

Business-IT translation

APIs & Integrations

Data models

AI prototyping

Agile delivery

Stakeholder management

Functional requirements

Non-functional requirements

Prioritisation

Tools

Cursor

Claude Code

v0

Azure DevOps

Jira

GitHub

TypeScript/Next.js

PostgreSQL

Azure

Job description

Parallax is seeking a Technical Business Analyst to help clients understand challenges, map processes and explore technology-led solutions. You’ll engage from early sales conversations through delivery, translating business needs into actionable workstreams and tangible artefacts with AI-assisted tools to speed validation.

You’ll collaborate with engineering, design and QA to ensure outcomes align with client goals, balancing upfront analysis with iterative learning in an agile setting.