[Hiring] Lead Business Analyst @Aker Systems

Aker Systems; United States; Remote; USD 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a remote Lead Business Analyst to join their innovative team. This role involves leading business, data, and systems analysis activities within Agile delivery teams, ensuring that technical solutions meet business requirements. The ideal candidate will have extensive experience with AWS S3 and a strong background in data analysis, along with excellent communication skills to engage with diverse stakeholders. This forward-thinking company values collaboration and offers a supportive environment where your contributions will help drive significant improvements in enterprise data management.

Benefits

25 Days Holiday

Company Paid Medical Insurance

Life Assurance (4x basic salary)

Pension Scheme

Cycle Scheme

Tech Scheme

Season Ticket Loan

Dental Insurance

Critical Illness Cover

Virtual GP

Qualifications

• 5+ years experience in a similar role as a Business Analyst or Data Analyst.
• Strong skills in data analysis and Agile delivery teams.

Responsibilities

• Lead data and systems analysis activities for projects.
• Create technical User Stories and manage project backlog in Jira.

Skills

Business Analysis

Data Analysis

Agile Methodologies

Stakeholder Communication

User Story Creation

Data Modelling

Education

Bachelor's Degree

Tools

AWS S3

Jira

Job description

Apr 07, 2025 - Aker Systems is hiring a remote Lead Business Analyst. Salary: competitive salary. Location: UK.

Aker Systems was founded in 2017 by a team of experienced technology professionals who recognised an opportunity to provide highly secure enterprise data platforms to large organisations. We build and operate ground-breaking, ultra-secure, high performance, cloud-based data infrastructure for the enterprise. Our proprietary technology solutions drive performance and reduce costs while helping our clients to improve the management and sharing of data across their organisations.

In 2024, Aker Systems won the Breakthrough Culture Awards highlighting growth companies putting culture first. In 2020 Aker Systems was recognised as a ‘One to Watch’ on the Sunday Times Tech Track. The Company was also recognised at the Thames Valley Tech Awards 2020; winning the Thames Valley Tech Company of the year, the Emerging Tech Company and High Growth Tech Business categories. We encourage people of all different backgrounds and identities to apply. We are committed to maintaining an inclusive, and supportive place for you to do your very best work.

Duties & Responsibilities

A UK Government Security Check (SC) clearance is required for this role. If you don’t hold SC clearance, we will support you to apply assuming you have lived and worked in the UK for a minimum of 5 years.

As a Technical Business Analyst working within our fast-paced client environments, you will lead the business, data and systems analysis activities for products and services, becoming a domain expert in your area. Working within Agile technical delivery teams, the role requires a combination of business analysis and technical analysis.

You will:

• Lead the data and systems analysis activities within the project, identifying the business and technical requirements and acceptance criteria.
• Conduct data analysis activities to identify detailed requirements including business transformation mappings.
• Create technical User Stories, including task breakdown and be able to explain them to the technical delivery team.
• Work with the Solution Architect to develop and document detailed User Stories for the project backlog – you will need to validate that the solution will meet the business requirements.
• Work with the data consumers and internal teams to create specifications including detailed data definitions & mappings.
• Take the lead on running workshops and data supplier engagement.
• Formalise the results of data and systems analysis into structured documentation and obtain approval from the key stakeholders.
• Form strong business relationships with suppliers and consumers of data.
• Build out patterns and processes that can be repeated.
• Manage the project backlog in Jira.
• Be part of the technical Agile scrum team – actively contributing to other activities including testing and validation of the end results.

Core Competencies

• The successful candidate will have a Bachelor's degree or greater.
• The successful candidate will have at least 5 years experience within a similar role - Technical Business Analyst, Technical Data Analyst, Product Business Analyst, Software Business Analyst.
• Extensive experience with AWS S3.
• Experience of working in an Agile delivery team.

You will have demonstrated the following competencies to the proficiency level appropriate to the seniority of the role:

• Experience communicating to a varied range of stakeholders across both technology and the business, building strong relationships.
• Skilled in collecting and interpreting data, analysing results to identify patterns and trends in structured and unstructured data sets.
• In depth understanding of creating User Stories and functional specifications (incorporating functional, non-functional and data definitions).
• Experience of working with data orientated requirements, including a good understanding of data modelling, mapping and workflow.
• Able to apply suitable analytical approaches to requirements discovery, documentation and solution delivery.
• Experience running requirements workshops to elicit User Stories, Workflow Diagrams, etc.
• Previous experience working within a data team on complex integration problems using public Cloud and messaging or streaming technology.

Aker Systems Attributes

At Aker we work as a team, we are collaborative, hardworking, open, and delivery obsessed. There is no blame culture here: try things, and take responsibility for the outcomes. You are always part of the wider Aker. We help out our colleagues and take pride in successfully achieving difficult tasks. We run towards problems and help solve them. Communicate always, do so accurately and in a timely fashion.

In return, we offer a competitive salary, 25 days holiday (excluding bank holidays), Company Paid Medical Insurance, Life Assurance (4x times basic salary), Pension scheme, Perks at Work, Cycle Scheme, Tech Scheme and Season Ticket Loan. Plus, a list of voluntary benefits including Dental Insurance, Critical illness cover and Virtual GP.

Equal Opportunities

Aker Systems fosters a diverse environment that encourages openness in its communications and is committed to providing equal employment opportunity for all people regardless of race, religion, gender or sexual orientation, age, marital status, national origin, citizenship status, disability, veteran status or other personal characteristics. We embrace differences of opinion and diversity because they help challenge us and find new groundbreaking technical solutions.