Business Analyst London, England
Job description
Job title: Business Analyst
Contract: 2 year FTC
Location: Reporting office Stratford, London, E15 or Sale Point, Manchester, M33
Persona: Agile, Office based 20-40% dependant on business needs
Salary: London Weighted: £51,910 - £57,000/ Regional - Outside London £44,774 - £47,886 pa dependant on experience and location
Interviews will be held on the 18th September 2023 via Microsoft Team
Closing date for all applications:8th September 2023
Early applications are encouraged as we reserve the right to close the advertisement and interview earlier than stated
A great opportunity has arisen for an experienced Business Analyst to join L&Q at a very exciting time where we are beginning a journey to transform the way we manage information about our buildings not only to provide a better service to customers old and new, but also to demonstrate that we manage our buildings safely.
This role will help ensure that the solutions we adopt will support Building Information Management standards (ISO 19650) and other relevant construction data frameworks and standards and enable the information to be collected and managed across the whole lifecycle of the building (construction, in use, disposal), and for that information to be easily accessible and usable for needs such as:
- property assets & liabilities register
- building information procurement during construction
- compliance with forthcoming building safety and fire safety regulations
- lifecycle cost prediction and monitoring
This role reports into the Senior Business Analyst, and the priority and direction in terms of work will be determined by the Building and Asset Information Programme, one of six core change programmes in L&Q.
You will be responsible for three primary aspects:
- Regularly assessing the technical and operational feasibility of the solution with key stakeholders (business and technical).
- Supporting the Programme in managing the requirements and ensuring user stories (functional and non-functional) are fully elaborated, documented and ready enough for their incorporation into software tenders, subsequent implementation of selected third-party packages, and for any in-house development
- Supporting the improvement in the quality of the solution through collaborative identification of good acceptance criteria, exploratory testing and supporting user acceptance testing.
You will be involved in:
- Production of software tenders for the strategic BIM software products
- Collaborative working on user stories with the product owner, test engineers, software engineers, other subject matter specialists and the business.
- Partnering with a Solutions Architect to ensure that technical designs are fit for purpose and adhere to architectural standards and target architecture.
- Determining and managing simple, meaningful requirements mapping and organisation, identifying all notable dependencies.
- Helping to create logical groupings of value-based requirements and use these groupings to create a release schedule that balances business priority with architectural dependencies.
- Bringing an understanding of any legal or statutory aspects that the solution has to meet.
- Conducting analysis "spikes" to elaborate on backlog items that need more analysis, researching requirements and their priorities
- Sitting with developers and testers as they are building code and tests to explain the story and its “done” criteria and verify that the defined system behaviours are aligned to those criteria.
Skills and Experience:
- Must have core business analysis skills in creating and refining user stories so that they are Independent, Negotiable, Valuable, Estimable, Sized appropriately and Testable.
- Must have experience of producing software tenders and evaluating supplier bid responses – direct involvement in OJEU / UK “Find a Tender” tendering will be helpful
- Must be able to undertake Story boarding and UI modelling to identify potential screen flows or user navigation design
- Must have experience of working in an agile software development environment that has applied Behaviour Driven Design and Test-Driven Development; experience of Acceptance Test Driven Development is useful.
- Experience of exploratory testing to support the delivery of user stories is required
- Direct involvement in assisting end-users with acceptance test planning by helping identify business scenarios to verify that the solution meets the business requirements is desirable
- Experience of conducting workshops, basic data modelling, process analysis and process mapping, and diagnosing the causes of business problems (root cause analysis techniques) are all desirable. Experience of Lean techniques is beneficial.
- Experience with Building Information Management or Asset Management is highly desirable.
- Experience of working with Low-code/No-code development platforms, working with reusable components to create workflows would be highly desirable
L&Q is a large fast paced and passionate organisation with a strong mission to combine its social purpose and commercial drive to create homes and neighbourhoods everyone can be proud of.
If you feel you meet the skills and experience listed above and would like to join an organisation that can really make a difference to people’s lives, then apply today!
- We are a multi-site organisation, so some roles may require occasional travel between offices but expenses will be covered.
Our commitments:
At L&Q, people are at the heart of our business and our success depends on employing the best people and getting the best from them. This is why we are committed to developing our people. It's only by investing in a well-trained and motivated workforce that we can continue to prosper and sustain business success.
In addition to our support and training, the successful candidate will have access to our full suite of benefits including 26 days holiday rising to 31 days with length of service, excellent Pension scheme, an employee assistance programme and non-contributory life assurance.
We are committed to supporting your work-life balance and recognise the changing demands and circumstances in life. Please let us know during the recruitment process if you’re interested in part time working or job sharing. In addition, should your circumstances change once you have joined L&Q, you can also request flexible working arrangements, e.g. a change to working hours - if it’s feasible then we’ll make it happen.
We are recognised externally for our commitment to inclusion. We are a Stonewall Diversity Champion, a Disability Confident (Committed) employer and have signed the Time to Change Employer Pledge to demonstrate our commitment to end mental health discrimination in the workplace.
We expect all of our employees to support our environmental policy and social responsibility work. We are an employer committed to environmental and social responsibility.
L&Q is a regulated charitable housing association and one of the UK’s most successful independent social businesses. The L&Q Group houses around 250,000 people in more than 100,000 homes, primarily across London and the South East.
As a charitable organisation, our role goes beyond providing homes and housing services. We are a long-term partner in the neighbourhoods where we work. We hope to build aspiration, opportunity and confidence in our communities through our £250 million L&Q Foundation and our skills academy.
Our vision is that everyone has a quality home they can afford, and we combine our social purpose with commercial drive to create homes and neighbourhoods everyone can be proud of.