Business Analyst (Backend) London, England
Job description
We're ASOS. We blend our flair for fashion with our love of cutting- edge technology, but more importantly were interested in how we can bring the best out of you.
We exist to give people the confidence to be whoever they want to be, and that goes for our people too. At ASOS, you're free to be your true self without judgment, and channel your creativity into a platform used by millions.
Through our Fashion with Integrity strategy we are driving diversity, equity and inclusion across every aspect of ASOS and ensuring every ASOSer can be their authentic self at work. We want our people to be whoever they want to be, because we believe people who bring their best selves to work, do their best work.
About the Role
Our Stock & Fulfilment services are critical to ensuring customer’s orders are processed and fulfilled as soon as possible after they hit the "BUY NOW" button. But it doesn't stop there...
When ASOS looks to bring the latest products onto the site, or a customer adds an item to their bag it is our stock management services that provide the functionality to enable that. We are also enhancing our capabilities to ensure that our customers across the world benefit from global distribution and enhanced product choice. You’ll be dedicated to the Stock & Fulfilment agile teams and part of the business analysis function led by the Lead BA.
What You’ll Be Doing
- Work with our Stock & Fulfilment development teams to define, prioritise, and manage the team’s development backlogs with an agile mindset.
- Collaborate with in-house agile development teams and third-party systems providers to deliver business requirements across entire project and product lifecycles, driving forward new features for our customers.
- Elicit, understand, document, and prioritise business requirements and turn them into accurate user stories that the development teams you work with can deliver.
- Organise, direct, and participate in ceremonies such as, refinement, team stand ups, planning sessions, reviews, retrospectives, and product demonstrations.
- Ensure all functional changes have accompanying non-functional requirements clearly defined to ensure the service is fit for purpose, delivers business value and is performant given the criticality and volume of requests it handles.
- Review feedback on user stories delivered, demonstrating product deliverables, and sharing your team's success stories.
- Work closely with the Platform Lead, Solution Architect, Lead Engineers, and development teams to create a fantastic and collaborative working environment.
- Review the business assumptions on incoming requests so that the requirements and delivered solutions meet both current and future needs.
- Supporting our culture by driving Diversity, Equity & Inclusion strategies.
Who We'd Like to Meet
- Experience as a Business Analyst within Technology working with backend development teams
- Business process modelling (preferably BPMN) skills
- The ability to understand complex business flows and how changes can impact these
- Appreciation of the business context you’re working in, considering all perspectives, and being clear on the ‘why’
- Previous involvement on large scale cross functional change, working closely across multiple technology teams and with third parties
- An understanding of retail processes with exposure to retail teams, services, and metrics would be extremely beneficial, as well as knowledge of e-commerce and supply chain processes, system Integrations and APIs.
Additional Information
What’s in it for you?
- Employee discount (hello ASOS discount!)
- ASOS Develops (personal development opportunities across the business)
- Employee sample sales
- Access to a huge range of LinkedIn learning materials
- 25 days paid annual leave + an extra day for your birthday
- Discretionary performance related bonus scheme
- Private medical care scheme
- Flexible benefits allowance - which you can choose to take as extra cash, or use towards other benefits
Our Commitments
We want our people to be whoever they want to be. That’s why we’re committed to creating a truly inclusive culture at ASOS, but how’re we doing it?
We’re proud members of Inclusive Companies, are Disability Confident Committed and have signed the Business in the Community Race at Work Charter. We’ve also recently been placed 8th in the Inclusive Top 50 Companies Employer List too.
We have several employee networks that operate as safe spaces, to help support and celebrate our people, find out more here.
How can we support you to be your best self? Our Talent team will be happy to provide support e.g. if you need additional time to prepare for an assessment or you have requirements for any part of the interview/hiring process - just let us know by email or phone, whatever works best for you. It’s also our policy to interview all candidates with a disability who meet the minimum requirements for roles they have applied to.
If you have any questions about the policies we have in place to support our employees (e.g. our parental leave approach), just let our Talent team know.
