Senior Business Analyst
The Data Shed, United Kingdom

The Senior Business Analyst is a key member of The Data Shed’s professional services and product build team, responsible for leading the design, development and implementation of intelligent analytical solutions for clients, and building out The Data Shed’s proprietary software range.

The Senior Business Analyst will work with sales and delivery teams to ensure that requirements are aligned to both clients and internal strategy, and development occurs in line with requirements.

Getting under the skin of an issue is critical. Our ability to deliver at speed is grounded in a fundamental understanding of the challenges faced by our clients. Being tenacious, and willing to challenge the assumptions of even the most senior of our clients is important.

About The Shed

At The Data Shed, we've been working with some truly inspiring clients on anything from real-time data integration and data mining to analytics-ready data modelling and insight elicitation with data exploration and Machine Learning. We face new and exciting challenges every day, from ensuring high availability and performance of critical government systems, to understanding and improving complex banking and finance data structures.

Our solutions help our customers realise value beyond the boundaries of systems and applications. We collaborate with our customers to build secure, scalable and well-engineered systems that can be relied on. We love data and have made it our mission to build awesome systems that allow our customers to understand and get the most from their data.

As part of a close-working and collaborative team, we make data valuable and available to our clients, through consultancy services or product development.

Culture at The Data Shed

Like many other organisations we recognise the importance diversity plays in creating a successful, balanced, and fair organisation which is why The Data Shed prides itself on having an inclusive culture.

We have 5 core values of our own that keep us on track and working towards the same goal;

• Treat People Right
• Know Your Audience
• Share the Knowledge
• Always Seek Value
• Take Care of the Fundamentals

The Data Shed is an equal opportunities employer, and we know how important it is to have a good work-life balance. We do our best to allow every member of the team a working pattern that suits them, whether that’s being around for school pickups or taking a longer lunch to walk the dog. If your team and clients have been considered then we’re confident in our approach to treat everyone like adults, with wellbeing as a priority.

Skills amp; Experience

At The Data Shed we are looking for experience in the following things. We need people who are open to new things, quick to adapt, and quick to learn. We are looking for people with experience in the following;

• Experience working within complex projects with multiple streams of delivery
• Strong business process modelling and analytical skills
• Experience of applying data and analysis to a business (Six Sigma, BPM etc)
• Consulting experience
• A highly numerate or data-centric degree (Economics, Maths, Statistics, Physics etc)
• A strong relationship builder building honest, frank and constructive relationships within all levels of an organisation
• Above all, the Business Analyst should be able to listen to a customer, question intelligently and work with the development teams to document and deliver their requirements

Requirements of the Role

• Work closely with the directors and senior technical management to engage with clients, guide and formulate requirements, and deliver specifications to the development team
• Maintain a detailed appreciation of the solution through delivery to ensure it meets any changing requirements
• Be clear and articulate in both written and verbal communication
• Be comfortable presenting to technical teams, and to C-level executives
• Define and improve documentation standards and processes
• Be responsible for the creation and management of essential project artefacts
• Never make the same mistake twice
• Make it right and only then make it fast
• If you see something that’s broken, fix it. That includes the coffee machine

Benefits

We have a variety of benefits including a company performance-based bonus, an enhanced pension, private healthcare programme, an EAP program, a life assurance scheme, regular socials and for any additional needs you have, we have a friendly and knowledgeable HR team to support you.

Location

We have a Leeds HQ and an office in Edinburgh and a flexible hybrid working policy. Currently, our Shedders are expected to be in the office a mi

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