Senior/Lead Business Analyst

As a Senior/Lead Business Analyst, you will assist with the decomposition of work, writing Business Outcomes, Epics, Features, and User Stories so that the squad clearly articulates value, acceptance criteria, and estimates to get their work done. They support decision making with clear, insightful analysis, which allows the Product Owner to make decisions on ideation viability, sequencing, and shaping business context.

YOUR JOB RESPONSIBILITIES

1. User Story Definition: 

• Works with the Product Owner to understand, elicit, analyse, document and communicate business requirements and articulate product vision with a strong focus on value delivery 
• Assists the Product Owner to define and own the value definition of Stories, including facilitating and influencing the prioritisation of the backlog 
• Expert in translating end user / customer insights into Stories complete with Acceptance Criteria, which can easily be understood by the Development Team 
• Provides discipline, rigor and technical skills to the requirements definition and validation process

2. Planning & Engagement: 

• Partners with key stakeholders and Product Owners to articulate product vision; documents problem/opportunity and broader context; defines desired future states using outcomes as measures of success with a strong focus on value delivery 
• Collaborates with key stakeholders across business and technology to complete the required artefacts and capture necessary inputs 
• Works with the team to produce high fidelity estimates by providing crystal clear requirements definitions 
• Typically works ahead of the Team to elicit requirements for the next Sprint's Stories 
• Shared accountability with other Team Members to help refine the Backlog and estimate the Initiatives, Features and Stories at the planning meetings 
• Proactive around risks, issues, blockers and raises them as soon as possible 
• Constantly looks for opportunities to improve the overall process 
• Available to the team to answer questions relating to product requirements, and works with the team to breakdown Stories and translate business requirements into terms that Developers will understand 
• Participates in the demos during the Sprint review 
• Provide guidance to Analysts, including training and mentoring on tools and techniques

3. Other Essential Accountabilities

• Decomposition of work - Drafting Business Outcomes, Epics and Features and User Stories to articulate value; lead activities which establishes a product backlog
• Epic sequence optionality, including articulating, senior stakeholder communication, and recommendations for tradeoffs involved in technical decisions
• Data collation, deep analysis and data interpretation/communication for informed decision making across complex environments
• Ownership of as is/to be process maps, interaction models, customer journey maps and environments aligned to enterprise process architecture, applied within complex environments
• Logically structuring problems, taking into consideration the business context and deep analysis to articulate the Epics in Progressive Elaboration documentation