Senior Business Analyst - Search

Job Description

TUI Group is the world’s number one integrated tourism business. The search domain is a global team within TUI technology responsible for the sophisticated IT infrastructure and systems that enable comprehensive searching for holiday experiences and travel journeys for our customers. We are a multi-disciplinary team of experts across Architecture, Engineering, DevOps and Agile Delivery providing services across the UK, Ireland, Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Finland, Germany, Belgium and The Netherlands.

At TUI we’re ambitious to become the leader in technology within the travel industry and to achieve this we are looking to build a capable, creative team who want to be a part of accomplishing that goal.

We never stop looking ahead, seeking new ways to delight our customers and grow our business. We recognise the power of digital and the massive contribution this brings to creating a truly unique and differentiated customer experience.

The Senior Business Analyst is a critical thinker with a keen eye for detail. Actively consulting with stakeholders, probing to create and communicate a common understanding of the problem that needs solving. Working within a fast-paced agile environment, the Senior Business Analyst thinks outside of the box, loves collaborating across teams and is a lifelong learner.

ABOUT THE JOB

• As a Senior Business Analyst, you are part of a cross-functional team that delivers IT solutions for accommodation, hotel, flight and package provisioning from conception to operation. You will collaborate with business experts as well as specialists from areas such as Architecture, Engineering, DevOps, and Agile Delivery to clearly define, document and communicate requirements that will enable implementation of new changes and enhancements to our digital platforms in an agile manner.
• You’re responsible for evaluating solution options, consulting with a range of stakeholders as needed to define and articulate business needs in a way that enables the design and delivery of technical solutions that add value across TUI global platforms and services. You use your deep understanding of TUI products and systems, business models, processes, data flows and their link to business capabilities to plan and deliver high quality business analysis that supports the ongoing delivery of growth and digital transformation across our key markets.
• Working alongside a varied set of technology and business stakeholders, you define and document new business, user, and system requirements, considering impacts to upstream/downstream services. You manage the requirement lifecycle from planning through to elicitation, testing, delivery, and business acceptance. You can provide business analysis to multiple agile IT delivery teams and work closely with Technical Leads and Business Product Owners to prioritise and manage complex backlogs.
• As a Senior Business Analyst you distil the needs of business and using your excellent collaboration skills you support your team to deliver the best solutions to our customers’ needs. You are commercially astute, focusing on solving business problems in the best way and are well-connected across the domain, within the broader TUI community and relevant Communities of Practice.
• You love to work in an international, multi-cultural team. You challenge constructively and have high expectations of yourself and others. You always drive for excellence, ownership and self-organisation at team and personal level. You regularly coach, guide and develop more junior colleagues. You love to learn and acquire new skills and keep up to date with latest developments in your focus areas.
• Security is part of everyone’s job. At TUI, we practise secure behaviours first in everything we do.

ABOUT YOU

• Excellent analytical skills and commercial acumen. Adept at understanding complex problems and communicating findings to technical and non-technical stakeholders
• Collaborative approach, able to balance the needs of multiple stakeholders and facilitate agreement across multiple markets in a global structure
• Experience in working across multiple complex products/services/system domains
• Proficient at using requirements elicitation methods including business process modelling (BPM), UML, test/use cases and prototyping
• Deep knowledge in and extensive experience with creating, analysing and validating detailed functional specifications and elements of systems design; including data rules, business rules, wireframes or other detailed deliverables that articulate how a business need should be satisfied
• Experience in coaching more junior colleagues
• Strong track record of successfully using requirements elicitation and communication techniques including workshop facilitation, documentation analysis, interviewing and brainstorming
• Strong interpersonal skills, with the ability to work effectively in a diverse team environment and lead cross-functional teams.
• Proactive and adaptable mindset, demonstrating initiative with a strong willingness to learn, evolve, and tackle changing business needs and technological landscapes.
• Experience with API specifications and integration requirements.
• Well-versed in agile/lean delivery, crafting user stories and epics within a BDD framework, and familiar with Scrum or Kanban methodologies.
• Customer centric, passionate about delivering great digital products and services
• Passionate about continuous improvement
• Open minded, inquisitive, life-long learner
• Comfortable with ambiguity, highly autonomous

ABOUT OUR OFFER

• Working in the leading global tourism group: We stand for intercultural cooperation and offer the opportunity to work in international projects and teams.
• Fantastic holiday benefits including discounts, special offers
• Mobile working, flexible working hours and working from abroad: We believe that work is something you do, not where you go. Our offer: TUI Way of Working
• Health and Wellbeing support in five key areas – Health, Social, Community, Career and Financial
• Development and career opportunities: We offer a wide range of digital training and international career opportunities.
• Additional benefits relevant to the local market that you’ll be based in

At TUI, we know people are as diverse as the destinations we send our customers to. ​ ​We love to see your uniqueness shine through and inspire the future of travel.​ If you would like to read more about what Diversity & Inclusion means to us simply visit our Smile page Click here

If you have any questions, please contact the Recruiter for this role via the contact information included in the advert.

Please Note: These vacancies will be managed by an International Recruitment Team and therefore your application may be viewed by TUI colleagues outside your home country.

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