Overview
The Business Analyst will play a crucial role in a strategic data platform transformation programme, contributing to a project for a respected Azure specialist MSP. This 11-day contract involves leading focused discovery sessions, engaging with operational stakeholders, and translating complex requirements into actionable deliverables, all while navigating a challenging environment of legacy systems and significant data volumes.
Responsibilities
- Lead discovery workshops with various stakeholders including operational, forecasting, product, IT, and data teams.
- Capture current-state processes, systems, workflows, and data flows.
- Identify bottlenecks, manual processes, risks, and opportunities for improvement.
- Develop future-state process documentation and operating-model recommendations.
- Gather and document functional, non-functional, and business requirements.
- Produce process maps, BPMN diagrams, data-flow diagrams, user stories, and requirements backlogs.
- Analyse data ownership, quality, stewardship, lineage, and governance requirements.
- Support the creation of data dictionaries, business glossaries, KPI definitions, and data-quality rules.
Requirements
- Minimum of five years' experience in Business Analysis.
- Experience with data, analytics, or platform-transformation programmes.
- Strong skills in workshop facilitation and stakeholder management.
- Proven ability to document complex business processes and data flows.
- Knowledge of data governance, lineage, quality, and ownership.
- Proficient in creating structured, delivery-ready documentation.
- Ability to operate effectively in ambiguous environments with legacy systems.
- Familiarity with tools such as Azure DevOps, Jira, Confluence, Visio, Lucidchart, or Miro is beneficial.