Lead Business Analyst

Lead Business Analyst
Remote / Any UK office base (with some travel to client sites when needed)
UK you can choose from the following office base: London, Manchester, Birmingham, Bristol, Glasgow, Wales, Liverpool or Sheffield
Flexi Working Available
Global Consultancy
Full Time / Permanent
Salary circa £70-115k (flexibility depending on experience and multiple positions available) + excellent benefits package
We are currently looking for a Lead Business Analyst to join a highly regarded and well known global consultancy. Working within the digital customer engagement area, the successful Business Analyst you will work as part of an Agile Scrum Team, having responsibilityfor understanding user needs, working closely with key business partners, translating problems or requirements into user stories and defining acceptance criteria.
Role Description
As a Senior Business Analyst, you are highly customer focused and responsible for building collaborative relationships. You will represent the needs and desires of the stakeholder community to one or more Agile delivery teams, being the first source of informationabout the problem domain for teams.
Working with Scrum Masters, Business Analysts and Developers, you'll lead Agile delivery teams in turning user feedback into actionable insights that drive the design and prioritisation of product improvements and will champion the work of the Agile deliveryteams to the stakeholder community.
Working within our Business Analyst capabilities to drive first class Business Analysis practices and lead, mentor and train the next generation of Business Analyst talent.

**Responsibilities**:
*Being a leader, in terms of best practice for a Business Analyst but also as a people first manager.
*Building highly collaborative internal and external stakeholder relationships
*Developing the product vision with stakeholders and representing their needs to one or more Agile delivery teams
*Working with Agile delivery teams to design a prioritised Product Backlog and plan on how to deliver this
*Prioritising and maintaining the Product Backlog, collaborating with Business Analysts and Developers to create and refine User Stories according to business value and technical risk
*Leading efforts to evaluate, select, and implement appropriate software and system solutions that support and enable delivery
*Directing the development of user-driven prototypes to test potential new features with users to verify potential improvements
*Enabling your team to release frequent product improvements that deliver real value for users
*Supporting effective business analysis through analytical thinking, problem-solving and communication skills
*Identifying and leading process improvements for requirements gathering and documentation of those requirements
*Actively participating in networking and training with Product Managers to share Agile best practice and learning
*Performing other duties as required or assigned which are reasonably within the scope of the duties enumerated above
Minimum Qualifications
*5-6 Years product management experience in Digital services or business
*Eligible for Security Clearance or SC cleared
Beneficial Experience
*Knowledge of requirements capture methods and techniques, business systems and analysis, software development lifecycles and associated processes
*Proficient in the use of requirements capturing toolsets e.g. JIRA and Confluence
*Working with Agile approaches such as Scrum
*A track record of client facing consulting engagements or similar roles within industry