Lead Business Analyst

Aker Systems was founded in 2017 by a team of experienced technology professionals who recognised an opportunity to provide highly secure enterprise data platforms to large organisations. Aker builds and operates ground-breaking, ultra-secure, high performance, cloud-based data infrastructure for the enterprise. Our proprietary technology solutions drive performance and reduce costs while helping our clients to improve the management and sharing of data across their organisations.

In 2022, Aker Systems was proud to win the 'Scale up Business of the Year' award by the British Business Excellence Awards. In 2020 Aker Systems was recognised as a 'One to Watch' on the Sunday Times Tech Track and was also recognised at the Thames Valley Tech Awards 2020; winning the Thames Valley Tech Company of the year, the Emerging Tech Company and High Growth Tech Business categories.

Most recently in September 2021, we were successfully acquired by a new investor (Abry Partners) who have a deep industry expertise in our field to support us in the next part of our journey and as we continue to grow and diversify as a business.

We encourage people of all different backgrounds and identities to apply. We are committed to maintaining an inclusive, and supportive place for you do your very best work.

Duties & Responsibilities

A UK Government Security Check (SC) clearance is required for this role. If you don't hold SC clearance, we will support you to apply assuming you have lived and worked in the UK for a minimum of 5 years.

As a Technical Business Analyst working within our fast-paced client environments, you will lead the business, data and systems analysis activities for products and services, becoming a domain expert in your area. Working within Agile technical delivery teams, the role requires a combination of business analysis and technical analysis.

You will:

• Lead the data and systems analysis activities within the project, identifying the business and technical requirements and acceptance criteria
• Conduct data analysis activities to identify detailed requirements including business transformation mappings
• Create technical User Stories, including task breakdown and be able to explain them to the technical delivery team
• Work with the Solution Architect to develop and document detailed User Stories for the project backlog – you will need to validate that the solution will meet the business requirements
• Work with the data consumers and internal teams to create specifications including detailed data definitions & mappings
• Take the lead on running workshops and data supplier engagement
• Formalise the results of data and systems analysis into structured documentation and obtain approval from the key stakeholders
• Form strong business relationships with suppliers and consumers of data
• Build out patterns and processes that can be repeated
• Manage the project backlog in Jira
• Be part of the technical Agile scrum team – actively contributing to other activities including testing and validation of the end results
  
  

Core Competencies

• The successful candidate will have a Bachelor's degree or greater
• The successful candidate will at least 5 years experience within a similar role - Technical Business Analyst, Technical Data Analyst, Product Business Analyst, Software Business Analyst
• Extensive experience with AWS S3
• Experience of working in an Agile delivery team
  
  

You will have demonstrated the following competencies to the proficiency level appropriate to the seniority of the role:

• Experience communicating to a varied range of stakeholders across both technology and the business, building strong relationships
• Skilled in collecting and interpreting data, analysing results to identify patterns and trends in structured and unstructured data sets
• In depth understanding of creating User Stories and functional specifications (incorporating functional, non-functional and data definitions)
• Experience of working with data orientated requirements, including a good understanding of data modelling, mapping and workflow
• Able to apply suitable analytical approaches to requirements discovery, documentation and solution delivery
• Experience running requirements workshops to elicit User Stories, Workflow Diagrams, etc
• Previous experience working within a data team on complex integration problems using public Cloud and messaging or streaming technology
  
  

Aker Systems Attributes

At Aker we work as a team, we are collaborative, hardworking, open, and delivery obsessed. There is no blame culture here: try things, and take responsibility for the outcomes. You are always part of the wider Aker. We help out our colleagues and take pride in successfully achieving difficult tasks. We run towards problems and help solve them. Communicate always, do so accurately and in a timely fashion.

In return, we offer a competitive salary, 25 days holiday (excluding bank holidays), Company Paid Medical Insurance, Life Assurance (4x times basic salary), Pension scheme, Perks at Work, Cycle Scheme, Tech Scheme and Season Ticket Loan. Plus, a list of voluntary benefits including Dental Insurance, Critical illness cover, Virtual GP.

Equal Opportunities

Aker Systems fosters a diverse environment that encourages openness in its communications and is committed to providing equal employment opportunity for all people regardless of race, religion, gender or sexual orientation, age, marital status, national origin, citizenship status, disability, veteran status or other personal characteristics. We embrace differences of opinion and diversity because they help challenge us and find new groundbreaking technical solutions.