Technical Business Analyst

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As strategies, technologies, and innovation collide, we create opportunity from complexity. 

Our teams of interdisciplinary experts combine innovative thinking and breakthrough technologies to progress further, faster. Our clients adapt and transform, and together we achieve enduring results. 

We are over 4,000 strategists, innovators, designers, consultants, digital experts, scientists, engineers, and technologists. And we have deep expertise in consumer and manufacturing, defence and security, energy and utilities, financial services, government and public services, health and life sciences, and transport.  

Our teams operate globally from offices across the UK, Ireland, US, Nordics, and Netherlands. 

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At PA Consulting we define success as achieving exceptional results that have a lasting impact on businesses, communities, and people worldwide. Our Business Analysts play a key role in delivering the technical solutions which achieve these results. We are looking for Business Analysts across a variety of levels who wish to develop their career. You will be a part of a team providing direction, guidance and support to both the Client and PA's wider business. 
 
Business Analysts at PA work in some of the most exciting and diverse areas of the corporation. 
 
The scope of your involvement with projects will be vast and varied, helping organisations to define their needs and optimise their business. You will have the opportunity to: 

• Work with our clients to define and steer business analysis workstreams across programmes and projects 

• Tailor PA's business analysis framework to meet the specific needs of a client environment 

• Work with clients to ensure processes are defined and requirements are captured and managed effectively 

• Help clients build a compelling case for change and manage transformation in a controlled and effective way 

• Provide support to programme and project implementation 

• Perform assurance reviews of client's capabilities, drawing on PA's business analysis assurance framework and supported by your own business analysis experience 

• Develop personal knowledge and skills by attending and delivering role specific training 

As a Business Analyst you are part of a community of BA's who feed more widely into our Agile Capability. This will give you the opportunity to contribute internally to PA, by sharing your expertise and experience to develop a variety of areas within these teams. 

We are currently operating a discretionary hybrid working model which is designed to help you plan your work and your life. We want our people to come into the office at least two days a week.

Ideally, you will have: 

• A minimum of two years' experience of working as a Business Analyst, preferably in one or more of the following areas: Agile environment, process design and analysis, and / or information system transformation 

• The ability to articulate the approaches, tools, and responsibilities of a business analyst 

• Exceptional stakeholder management skills including technical support to business users 

• Exceptional interpersonal skills to build strong relationships with top-level stakeholders 

• Strong problem solving and critical thinking skills in troubleshooting and solution design 

• Excellent written skills 

• Ability to understand stakeholder objectives, processes and services to contribute to strategic change control and delivery management 

• A desire to support PA's internal capabilities and develop PA's Business Analysis expertise through training and knowledge sharing 

Desirable experience includes: 

• Experience in process modelling, capturing business requirements, performing gap analyses and devising strategies to rectify disparities 

• Practical know-how and knowledge in business analysis and industry recognised tools and techniques including JIRA and Confluence. 

• Ability to mediate between low-level technical detail and higher-level objectives 

• Experience working as a business analyst in a scrum team and supporting product owners to articulate business needs across epics, features and user stories 

• Ability to facilitate workshops and interviews with key stakeholders to elicit requirements and key information 

• Experience owning deliveries end to end from initial change request to go-live. 

• A thorough understanding of different delivery models including Waterfall and Agile 

• An understanding of test approaches and experience in supporting testing activities, including development and execution of test scripts 

• Certifications in Business Analysis e.g. BCS 

• Experience or desire to work on microservice architecture and cloud technologies e.g. AWS 

• Experience of defining the business analysis frameworks for large scale programmes and complex procurements 

• Experience of leading teams of business analysts to deliver programme outcomes 

• Experience of coaching and developing teams to adopt business analysis approaches and frameworks 

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Our purpose guides how we work with our clients and our teams, and support our communities, to deliver insight and impact, solving the world’s most complex challenges. We're focused on building a workplace that values human difference and diverse mindsets, and a culture of inclusion and equality that unlocks the potential in our people so everyone can be their best self. 

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We are dedicated to supporting the physical, emotional, social and financial well-being of our people. Check out some of our extensive benefits: 

• Health and lifestyle perks accompanying private healthcare for you and your family 
• 25 days annual leave (plus a bonus half day on Christmas Eve) with the opportunity to buy 5 additional days 
• Generous company pension scheme 
• Opportunity to get involved with community and charity-based initiatives 
• Annual performance-based bonus 
• PA share ownership 
• Tax efficient benefits (cycle to work, give as you earn) 

We’re committed to advancing equality. We recruit, retain, reward and develop our people based solely on their abilities and contributions and without reference to their age, background, disability, genetic information, parental or family status, religion or belief, race, ethnicity, nationality, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity (or expression), political belief veteran status, or other by any other range of human difference brought about by identity and experience. We welcome applications from underrepresented groups. 

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