Agile Business Analyst Southampton
Job description
Job Description
We recognise the value in having people with a variety of backgrounds, experience and skills in our business. That means the role requirements here should be seen as a guide, not a checklist. If you have more, less or different experiences, but really relevant skills, we'd love to hear from you.
We work flexibly and will help you to find a healthy balance of remote working and time in our fantastic Southampton office, collaborating, taking part in events and getting to know people that makes working with us so rewarding. We welcome the opportunity to discuss reduced hours and job share arrangements.
The Role
The Agile Business Analyst plays a critical role in helping us achieve our digital goals and ambitions. The role will be involved at every stage of the product lifecycle, from the start of a new feature, right through to delivery and support.
This role will work collaboratively with the Product Team to deliver a programme of continuous development. They will support the Product Owner in capturing and analysing business requirements, breaking them down into Epics, User Stories and Acceptance Criteria for the Scrum Team.
The Agile Business Analyst will have comprehensive knowledge of workshop facilitation and other tools and techniques to gather business requirements, as well as expertise in user journey maps, process models and other artefacts that help the team to deliver in accordance with the problem statement.
- Accountable for capturing outcomes, scope, and requirements ensuring they are reviewed and signed off by the Product Owner
- Accountable for working collaboratively with the Product Owner to translate requirements into Epics, User Stories and Acceptance Criteria, ensuring they meet the Definition Of Ready (DOR) and are broken down into manageable deliverables
- Accountable for clearly articulating the scope of a new feature and refining what is the Minimal Viable Product (MVP), ensuring that all scope is aligned to the problem statement / business benefit
- Accountable for attending and playing an active part in relevant agile ceremonies, supporting the team, and representing their user stories
- Accountable for effectively challenging scope and complexity to increase benefits case / delivery pace and decrease cost of delivery
- Accountable for working with the Programme Team to understand the broader business and platform strategy, and define the scope of new features
- Accountable for creating and maintaining business process documentation, working with the business to ensure the smooth transition of a new process into business as usual
Our role categories range from CUK15 (entry level) to CUK1 (Brand President) so you can clearly see internal development opportunities. This role is a CUK08 and is offered on a full time, permanent basis, with at least two days based in our Southampton office.
About You
Fresh ideas and different perspectives are what excite us most and help us to succeed. Alongside bringing these to the role, you’ll also need:
- In-depth knowledge of Agile process and principles
- Outstanding communication and presentation skills
- Excellent organisational and stakeholder management skills
- Effective problem solving skills
Being part of our team has its advantages…
We’re a holiday company so we know there’s more to life than work. Our comprehensive range of benefits are designed to help your personal and financial health and wellbeing.
- Home and office-based hybrid working (minimum two office days)
- Annual bonus
- Recognition scheme with prizes and awards
- Employee Discounted Cruising plus Friends and Family offers
- Regular office events including live entertainment, lifestyle events and charity partner fundraisers
- Extensive learning and development opportunities
- Employee-led networks
- Employee Assistance and Wellbeing programmes
- Company paid Health Cash Plan and health assessment
- In-house Occupational Health help and access to digital GP
- Life Assurance
- Parental and adoption leave
- Employee Shares Plan
- Electric Car and Cycle to Work schemes
- Onsite restaurant offering range of healthy cooked and grab and go meals
- Discounted retail and leisure via discounts portal
- Minimum 25 days leave, bank holiday allowance and holiday trading scheme
- Contributory Defined Contribution Pension scheme
- A friendly welcome with help settling in
About Us
No one knows cruising like Carnival UK, where talented people from across the globe come together to create unforgettable holiday happiness. As part of the world’s largest holiday travel and leisure company, we take enormous pride in bringing to life two of the most iconic brands from Britain’s rich seafaring heritage, P&O Cruises and Cunard. Collectively they have been delivering unbridled joy, boundless adventure and lifelong memories to millions of people for over 350 years. And in a multi-million pound global holiday market, where cruising has barely scratched the surface, we have the opportunity to do that for many, many more people.
Our diverse yet tight knit teams share high standards, heartfelt values and passion for our purpose. Our Culture Essentials describe the expectations we have for ourselves and of each other, in building a culture that supports safe, sustainable, compliant operations and celebrates diversity, equity and inclusion.
It’s through the successful delivery of these extraordinary travel experiences for our target markets and our distinctive culture, that we hope to become Travel’s Employer of Choice.
To keep everyone on board fit and well, colleagues who visit or work on our ships must be fully vaccinated, including boosters. We’re reviewing this requirement regularly.
