Contract Senior Business Analyst

We are seeking an experienced, highly organised Business Analyst for a 6-week contract to support a critical Waterfall project. You will lead the requirements-gathering and process-design phase for a new AI-enabled drafting system. You will immediately take ownership of gathering requirements, mapping them to project milestones, facilitating alignment meetings, and proactively resolving project blockers to keep our delivery timeline strictly on track.

Key Responsibilities

• Gather and manage backlog of requirements
• Prioritise and plan sprints
• Facilitate scrum ceremonies
• Remove impediments and support the team
• Bridge business and technical team

Skills, Knowledge and Expertise

• Previous experience as a client facing Senior Business Analyst across diverse sized projects.
• Confident in challenging assumptions and working with the customers’ Product Owners to define an PoC/MVP for a product.
• Ability to effectively structure backlogs to define a product using epics and features aligning both business needs and technical architecture.
• Ability to write clear, testable user stories using Gherkin acceptance criteria.
• Ability to lead Stand-ups, Retrospectives, Showcases, Planning Sessions, Iteration Planning Sessions and Project Discovery Sessions, and Backlog Refinement Sessions.
• Expert understanding of Scrum.
• Solid experience working in an Agile team to agree and develop system/product designs based on user requirements and specify these as user stories.
• Ability to create and sustain effective stakeholder relationships, across all levels.
• Strong modelling skills across the data, application and business process domains using standard modelling conventions (i.e. UML, BMPN, etc).
• Excellent written and verbal communication in English.

Originally posted on Himalayas