Agile Business Analyst

Are you an experienced Agile Business Analyst looking for a new challenge?
We are looking for a Agile Business analyst to join our well-established PPM team in our government sector.
In this role, you will undertake Agile business analysis on high complexity, high risk, business critical projects. This may involve the management of a team of Business Analysts. You may contribute to pre-sales assignments and proposals that may lead to significantrevenue opportunities.
We can offer great career progression opportunities, ability to be based anywhere across the UK, benefits which you can flex to meet your needs and training and development opportunities.
The work involves limited guidance and only general instructions from more senior colleagues. Therefore, initiative and judgment are required to address and resolve daily problems.
**What you will be doing**:

- Provide high-quality analytical solutions for the key stakeholders
- To increase the business value, collaborate with the Product Owner to create the product backlog by using Agile practices
- Develop business cases by working closely with Product Managers
- Provide user stories to multi-disciplinary teams and define the business-driven acceptance criteria
- Support Agile practices and encourage the improvement of service
- Facilitate various Agile processes such as Iteration / Release Planning, Backlog Refinement, Retrospective, Sprint Review, Daily Stand-up
- Create low or high-fidelity prototypes accordingly.

**What you’ll bring**:
As an Agile Business Analyst you will be business-oriented, eager to learn, empathetic, and flexible towards working in an Agile environment and should be innovative and goal-oriented. Other key attributes include:

- Provide high-quality analytical solutions for the key stakeholders
- To increase the business value, collaborate with the Product Owner to create the product backlog by using Agile practices
- Develop business cases by working closely with Product Managers
- Provide user stories to multi-disciplinary teams and define the business-driven acceptance criteria
- Support Agile practices and encourage the improvement of service
- Facilitate various Agile processes such as Iteration / Release Planning, Backlog Refinement, Retrospective, Sprint Review, Daily Stand-up
- Create low or high-fidelity prototypes accordingly.

**It would be great if you had**:

- Commercial sector knowledge
- Certified in one or more Agile methodologies and Business Analyst courses
- Extensive experience in using SAFe/ Agile

If you are interested in this role but not sure if your skills and experience are exactly what we’re looking for, please do apply, we’d love to hear from you
**Employment Type**: Full-time
**Location**: Anywhere
**Security Clearance Level**: SC
**Internal Recruiter**: Marion
**Salary**: Up to £60,000

**Benefits**:£5,400 car allowance, 25 days annual leave with the option to buy additional days, private days, private medical (family), life assurance, pension, and generous flexible benefits fund

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Sopra Steria supports the UK Government to tackle today’s biggest challenges. We combine technical expertise and delivery capability with vision to accelerate change and reinvent the way that Public Services are designed and delivered. We work with energyand integrity to build intelligent, highly secure, joined-up solutions that make a difference to everyday lives. We’ve been helping Government to make a difference for 50 years, creating common systems and approaches, enabling government to work across multipleagencies and radically transform how Public Services are delivered. Empowering Government to make a difference to everyone, every day.