Business Analyst (IT Portfolio)

We are seeking talented Business Analysts to support an IT portfolio of Infrastructure and Digital Transformation projects. This role requires strong organisational and communication skills to drive success in a dynamic environment.

The role has two components:

• Client Focused - delivering consultancy and analytical services to clients to co-create value
• Expleo - ensuring quality framework compliance, supporting the BA practice and working within others as part of a multidisciplinary delivery team

• For a client engagement:

  • Support projects from all IT disciplines (network, servers, security, data centre).
  • Understand IT strategy and technical standards.
  • Conduct stakeholder analysis and engagement.
  • Run workshops for detailed requirements gathering.
  • Manage business analysis work independently.
  • Create business cases and analysis documents.
  • Ensure solutions align with client’s business, infrastructure, systems, data, and regulatory constraints.
  • Focus on customer value and identify opportunities for innovation and efficiency.
  • Elicit requirements to create repositories, User Story maps, and prioritised backlogs.
  • Process modelling and improvement with an emphasis on automation.
  • Support development and QA teams with detailed requirements and acceptance criteria.
  • Identify impacts of changes on business teams and customers.
  • Prepare the business for change implementation (readiness plans, processes, training, etc.).
  • Support UAT and hypercare.
  • Comply with client project governance.
  • Manage client expectations.
  • Work with and understand data, data flow, and data mapping.

   

  For Expleo:

  • Network and work within multi-disciplinary teams.
  • Identify business development opportunities.
  • Comply with Expleo Delivery governance.
  • Share knowledge and experience with team members.
  • Support team success and maintain high morale.

• BCS Business Analysis International Diploma (or equivalent)
• A Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or other related field, or equivalent work experience

• Experience in IT environments and understanding of applications, infrastructure, and software projects.
• Advanced MS Excel and working knowledge of MS Power
• oint, MS Visio, and MS Word.
• Requirements gathering via multiple techniques.
  Facilitation skills (workshops, requirements walkthroughs, planning sessions).
• Requirements engineering using standard formats (User Stories, Epics, BDD).
• Business Process Modelling using UML and/or BPMN.
• Data Analysis and Modelling.
• Stakeholder relationship management.
• Familiarity with Agile and Waterfall methodologies.
• Use of requirements management tools (Jira, Confluence, Azure DevOps).
• Knowledge of Business and Systems Architecture, including TOGAF.

• Experience in IT environments and understanding of applications, infrastructure, and software projects.
• Experience in Infrastructure change management or rationalisation of the IT system portfolio.
• User Acceptance Testing experience (creation and execution).
• Commercial and regulatory awareness
• Consulting experience an advantage

• To be flexible to travel to, and work at, client sites across the UK as required

• Collaborative working environment – we stand shoulder to shoulder with our clients and our peers through good times and challenges 
• We empower all passionate technology loving professionals by allowing them to expand their skills and take part in inspiring projects 
• Expleo Academy - enables you to acquire and develop the right skills by delivering a suite of accredited training courses 
• Competitive company benefits
• Always working as one team, our people are not afraid to think big and challenge the status quo

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• As a Disability Confident Committed Employer we have committed to:
• Ensure our recruitment process is inclusive and accessible
• Communicating and promoting vacancies
• Offering an interview to disabled people who meet the minimum criteria for the job
• Anticipating and providing reasonable adjustments as required
• Supporting any existing employee who acquires a disability or long term health condition, enabling them to stay in work at least one activity that will make a difference for disabled people

“We are an equal opportunities employer and welcome applications from all suitably qualified persons regardless of their race, sex, disability, religion/belief, sexual orientation or age”. 

We treat everyone fairly and equitably across the organisation, including providing any additional support and adjustments needed for everyone to thrive