Business Analyst (SC Cleared)

**G7 Business Analyst** **Hybrid** At Peregrine, we’re always seeking Specialist Talent that have the ideal mix of skills, experience, and attitude, to place with our vast array of clients. From Business Analysts in large government organisations to Software Developers in the private sector – we are always in search of the best talent to place, now. **The role:** As a Senior Business Analyst, you’ll lead small to medium projects and contribute to larger programmes by owning key requirements. You’ll align outcomes with service vision and business strategy, supporting product iteration and optimisation. You’ll build strong stakeholder relationships, challenge constructively, and act as a critical voice to ensure fit\-for\-purpose solutions. Working independently or collaboratively, you’ll demonstrate a solid understanding of your domain. You’ll also help shape future business models and contribute to business architecture strategy. As an active member of the Business Analysis community, you’ll share best practices and mentor others to support professional growth and capability development. **Responsibilities:** * Investigating operational and business needs and problems and assisting in the recommendation of service improvement and business solutions * Understanding and defining the problem to be solved and ensuring strategic decision\-making supports business outcomes as well as user needs * Eliciting, analysing and validating business requirements and user needs, as well as business strategy problems, in the most appropriate and effective manner and format * Writing and refining user stories to ensure they are clear, structured and ready for development * Breaking down high\-level requirements into smaller, deliverable components * Collaborating with other professions within scope of the delivery to embed the Business Analysis role and value in the context of a project and multidisciplinary team * Planning and leading large areas of Business Analysis delivery, owning the challenge and driving through to conclusions * Creating acceptance criteria (often utilising the concept of Behavioural Driven Development) to allow your new service to be properly tested * Supporting testing activities, including defining test scenarios and validating outcomes * Maintaining traceability between requirements, architecture and delivered components * Collaborating with Product Owners or Proxy Product Owners to maintain and prioritise the backlog * Participating in Agile ceremonies, including sprint planning, backlog refinement, reviews and retrospectives * Continuously refining backlog items based on feedback, delivery insights and changing priorities * Modelling processes/procedures using established techniques with understanding of their purpose and importance * Supporting the development and understanding of data models and information structures where required * Production of periodic performance measures to inform stakeholders and drive discussion around the required service **Skills \& Experience:** You will have the following skills or proven experience: * Promoting and building strong relationships with a broad range of people (technical and non\-technical), and applying proven communication, and analytical skills to ensure the team’s plans and objectives are achieved * Working closely with developers, testers and product roles, and communicating effectively within a technical delivery context * Constructively challenging, negotiating and persuading different stakeholders in order to achieve a consensus in opinion * Promoting working as a team, contributing ideas and opinions in a flat non\-hierarchical structure and advocating to external people on the team’s behalf * Being adaptable in shifting and uncertain environments * Communicating in a variety of methods, applying the appropriate methods to each scenario/audience