Technical Business Analyst Exeter, England
Job description
IT Services
This full-time, fixed term post is available immediately for a period of 12 months and will be focussed on supporting a pair of University-wide projects within our Human Resources Department. You will be working within IT Services in the Solution Delivery team supporting the internal project team, which comprises subject matter experts from within IT and the business areas.
The projects
The University has started a programme of important projects, sponsored by the Executive Divisional Director of Human Resources. Two of these will be to introduce important changes in how we manage incoming and existing staff to the organisation. They are the introduction of a new e-recruitment system and a new improved way that the HR and payroll system handles changes to staff circumstances.
The role
- Responsible for liaising with key stakeholders in the Professional Services teams to develop a solid understanding of how the business and IT services in the business are currently operating and how the future goals of the business can be satisfied with implementation or changes to existing systems/processes.
- Applying a consistent and structured approach in the use of business analysis tools and techniques to deliver agreed outputs across the whole project lifecycle.
- Lead on the data analysis of the business in terms of its current IT services and supporting business processes to identify business problems, and opportunities and solutions for improvement.
- Responsible for identifying stakeholders and establishing user classes and their characteristics.
- Coordinate and lead on conducting interviews to map customer journeys, gather user requirements and translate into functional and non-functional requirements, and where applicable contribute to the development of prototypes.
- Responsible for defining the data impact of systems in relationship to the University’s Enterprise Data Model and collaborating with the Data Architect to optimise the data model.
- Develop process and data models, data specifications, entity diagrams, and other information to provide direction to developers and/or the project team.
- Understand and capture system and data integrations.
- Actively participate in University-wide projects where appropriate.
About You
Your passion and enthusiasm, combined with a proactive approach to transform the way we think and work are key attributes for this role. We also expect the following qualifications:
- Proven ability in business and technical requirements analysis, including data modelling and diagramming skills as well as developing requirements and impact assessments.
- Ability to create systematic and consistent requirements and specifications in both technical and user-friendly language.
- Proven communication skills demonstrating ability to understand complex conceptual ideas and experience in conveying information to senior stakeholders.
- Proven ability to interact across cross-functional and technical working teams and build ongoing relationships to ensure effective communications and exchange of information.
- Proven ability to take independent decisions without reference to your line manager relating to significant events, or influence decision-making that impacts resourcing and future business planning of the service.
- Demonstrable good planning and organisation skills.
- Excellent methodical, analytical (qualitative and quantitative) and problem-solving skills.
Experience of the following would be desirable but not essential. This role will also provide an opportunity for growth within these areas for an individual with the right attitude and approach:
- BCS Certificate in Systems Modelling Techniques, or similar
- ITIL ® Foundation
Please ensure you read the Job Description and Person Specification for full details of this role.
We will be reviewing applications as they come in, so please don’t hesitate in applying, as we reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications.
The University of Exeter
We are a member of the prestigious Russell Group of research-intensive universities, in the top 150 universities in the world (Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2023), and in the top 15 in the Guardian University Guide 2023 and The Times and Sunday Times Good University Guide 2023. Our research income in recent years means we’re one of fastest growing UK Research Universities and we seek to answer some of the most fundamental issues facing humankind today through this. Over 99% of our research is international quality (2021 Research Excellence Framework) and we encourage proactive engagement with industry, business and community partners to enhance the impact of research and education and improve the employability of our students.
Further Information
Please contact Julian Vinnels, Lead BA, by email: [email protected]
Interviews will be scheduled for 21 April 2023 and will be held remotely.
