Business Analyst - Advanced - Remote from EU - Deadline 13/11/26

Description

Evaluate business context, drivers, and expected outcomes to ensure alignment with strategic goals and stakeholder expectations. 

 Elicit, validate, and document business needs using structured techniques to ensure

clarity and traceability. 

Assess current and target business models to identify value streams, capabilities, and operational impacts. 

 Map and evaluate existing processes to identify inefficiencies, bottlenecks, and improvement opportunities using industry-standard techniques. 

 Create visual representations of workflows using standard notations to support analysis, communication, and solution design. 

 Compare current and desired states to identify capability gaps, improvement areas, and potential solutions. 

 Convert business requirements into functional specifications that guide solution design and development. 

 Identify, assess, and document risks related to business processes, systems, and change initiatives, including mitigation strategies. 

 Prepare and maintain functional and technical documentation, ensuring alignment with enterprise architecture and governance requirements.

 Develop clear deliverables such as Business Requirements Documents (BRDs), Functional Specifications, and User Stories with acceptance criteria. 

 Define and manage acceptance criteria; support test case design and user acceptance testing (UAT) to ensure requirements are met. 

 Maintain requirements traceability (e.g., story/feature with test case) and manage change requests throughout the lifecycle. 

 Document non-functional requirements (NFRs) (e.g., performance, security, usability) alongside functional requirements. 

 Facilitate cross-functional communication among stakeholders, developers, and testers to ensure shared understanding and alignment.

 Analyse system-to-system integration requirements, including REST APIs, message-based interactions and data mapping, and validate cross-system workflows.

 Perform impact analysis and assess change requests, maintain and refine the product backlog, and decompose requirements into prioritised user stories.

SPECIFIC EXPERTISE:

 Good knowledge of complex information systems and the software development lifecycle.

 Experience with Agile methodologies, including Scrum, and iterative software delivery approaches.

 Knowledge of requirements analysis and functional decomposition techniques, including functional specifications, user stories and acceptance criteria.

 Experience with requirements and product backlog management using Jira, including prioritisation and refinement of user stories.

 Experience with collaboration and documentation platforms such as Confluence and SharePoint.

 Knowledge of business process modelling using BPMN and modelling tools such as Enterprise Architect.

 Knowledge of procurement management workflows and the associated financial and contractual business rules.

 Experience with system-to-system integrations, including REST APIs and message-based interactions.

 Experience with data mapping, data modelling and validation of cross-system workflows.

Experience in defining business rules and validation rules for financial and contractual operations.

 Experience in impact analysis and assessment of change requests across interconnected information systems.

 Knowledge of SQL for data analysis, validation and investigation of application issues.

 Experience with API testing tools such as Postman and SoapUI.

 Understanding   of         Java-based      enterprise        applications    and      microservice architectures.

 Experience in preparing and maintaining functional and technical documentation aligned with enterprise architecture and governance requirements.

 Experience in supporting functional and integration testing and collaborating with product owners, architects, developers and testers.

Deadline 13/11/26

only EU Citizens can apply

Delivery mode: Remote (From EU)