Lead Business Analyst

Job Description

£ 59,500- £ 85,000

Remote & Client site as required

Offices in: London, Bristol, Swansea & Manchester

If you need this job description in another format, or other support in applying, please email talent@madetech.com.

Our mission is simple! We believe we can use tech to make public services better. We also believe this can happen best when our own team represents the society that actually uses the services we work on. We’re collectively continuing to grow a culture that is happy, healthy, safe and inspiring for people of all backgrounds and experiences, so we encourage people from underrepresented groups to apply for roles with us.

When you apply, we’ll put you in touch with a Talent Partner who can help with any needs or adjustments we may need to make to help with your application. This includes alternative formats for documents, the time allotted for interviews and any other needs. We also welcome any feedback on how we can improve the experience for future candidates.

Are you a Lead (Principal) Business Analyst that wants to actually see the real-world impact from what you help to create? Our mission is simple! We believe we can use tech to make public services better. We also believe this can happen best when our own team represents the society that actually uses the services we work on. At Made Tech, we’re collectively continuing to grow a culture that is happy, healthy, safe and inspiring for people of all backgrounds and experiences, so we encourage all people from underrepresented groups to apply for roles with us. Have we caught your interest? Please read on…

As a Lead (Principal) Business Analyst you will be a valued person leading and proactively sharing knowledge within the BA Community, be seen as a ‘Go-to’ person in your field, own and manage relationships with key collaborators, and manage both people and functional business areas as part of our rapidly growing Manchester team.

Your role at Made Tech

• Leading the Business Analysis Community through implementing and advising on best practice, and directing a strategic approach to all elements of Business Analysis
• Take responsibility for investigating business and service needs, continued by using business analysis principles and tools to define recommendations for service improvements.
• Working with the product manager and the delivery manager to accurately document the product or service; including detailed requirements, functional and non-functional, that can be fed back to the relevant collaborators.
• Apply the agile mindset to all aspects of your role, and help your team decide the best approaches to take
• Take the lead in improving the delivery team's ability to meet deadlines and adhere to the roadmap by adding clarity as well as playing a part in more structured processes such as workshops, sprint planning, daily scrums, show and tells, retros etc.

Requirements

In the application process the following skills will be assessed but if you don’t have everything on this list, please still apply

• Influencing senior stakeholders
• Analysis of large amounts of complex information to produce recommendations for service improvements
• Innovating in yours and your team’s work
• Able to investigate business priorities, operational needs and problems
• Working knowledge of business analysis tools and methodologies
• Able to identify service and process improvement opportunities
• Working at a senior level within multidisciplinary teams with product, design, and technology working within the same cycles
• Agile and lean practices such as Lean UX, Scrum, XP, and/or Kanban
• Showcasing and presentation skills
• Understanding of enterprise and business architecture
• Experienced working with Government Digital Service
• Mentoring and supporting the development of less experienced team members

Benefits

Our Benefits

We are always listening to our growing teams and evolving the benefits available to our people. As we scale, as do our benefits and we are scaling quickly. We've recently introduced a flexible benefit platform which includes a Smart Tech scheme, Cycle to work scheme, and an individual benefits allowance which you can invest in a Health care cash plan or Pension plan. We’re also big on connection and have an optional social and wellbeing calendar of events for all employees to join should they choose to.

Here are some of our most popular benefits listed below:

✈️ Flexible Holiday

🕰️ Flexible Working Hours

👶 Flexible Parental Leave

👩‍💻 Remote Working

🤗 Paid counselling

🏖️ Paid anniversary break

More information can be found here