Senior Business Analyst Leeds, England
Job description
Are you a skilled business analyst with a passion for data? Do you thrive in both the fine detail and the big picture? Can you translate between the business outcome and the technical requirement? If so, read on…
This is a brand-new role within our rapidly growing Decision Science and Data team which is focused on Asda Rewards and Asda Media Partnerships. From requirements to measurement, data exploration to documentation, you'll support the development of a suite of exciting new data products. And by mapping out high-level data and system architectures while cataloguing technical and business interdependencies, you will help define the data strategy for a critical part of the business as we move towards an exciting and ambitious new technology stack.
Your role:
You will work as part of Asda's Customer Data Science and Data team. As a Senior Business Analyst, you will:
- Translate business requirements for key data products into detailed functional and technical specifications
- Work with the Product Owner, technical teams, and business stakeholders to agree and track metrics to measure the success of the data products
- Liaise with colleagues across Asda's business and technical teams to understand and document requirements and interdependencies, to ensure our data strategy and product roadmaps align with those in other teams, and to understand and document the potential impact and opportunities related to upstream changes to data and systems
- Document key data products created by the Decision Science and Data team, including data inputs, data lineage, and high-level data architecture
- Take a leading role in cataloguing and resolving issues, such as data quality incidents and tooling problems, liaising with the relevant technical departments and feeding back to the Customer Decision Science and Data team
- Explore new and existing data sources to assess quality and suitability
- Assist in the testing and QA of the data products
- Collate feedback from stakeholders and relay back into the development teams
- Assist the Product Owner with Agile tasks such as backlog grooming
- Become a leading SME for both the data products and the data they consume
- Influence the data strategy by creating a clear map of current and future data, tools, products, and capabilities
About you:
We want all colleagues to be able to bring their best and true selves to work, every day. Simply put, we want our colleagues to be Proud to be Asda and proud to be themselves.
- Educated to degree level
- Significant experience as a Business Analyst (or similar) in a data engineering, data science, or data architecture environment
- Understanding of data engineering and data science concepts, and previous experience working alongside these roles
- Comfortable mapping out data inputs and data lineage
- Strong understanding of, and experience with, the product development process and Agile methodologies
- Excellent problem-solving, communication, and interpersonal skills
- Strategic and analytical thinker
- Excellent initiative and ability to flourish in an open-ended role
- Basic SQL skills
- Experience in the data teams within Retail, Loyalty, or Media is beneficial but not essential
Work Where it Works
Our hybrid way of working gives you the choice to work where it works. This enables you to choose where you'll be the most effective. It offers a mix of working from home and in an office environment (Usually around 3 days) that works best for you and your team, as well as across our network of stores and depots.
You will also get an excellent benefits package including
- £5,700 car allowance
- Discretionary company bonus
- Company pension up to 7% matched
- 10% colleague discount, free parking and many additional rewards
- 25 days holidays and bank holidays
We want all colleagues to be able to bring their best and true selves to work, every day. Simply put, we want our colleagues to be Proud to be Asda and proud to be themselves.
If you have any questions, then please email [email protected]
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