Contract Business Analyst
The Data Shed, United Kingdom

The 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 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.

Who is The Data Shed?

We are a collective of techies that have a deep understanding of data and how best to build data centric and data connected solutions for our customers.

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 regularly collect feedback from the people who keep the wheels turning and make sure everyone knows that their opinions and values are respected.

What do we do?

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.

Responsibilities

The Business Analyst will:

• 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 (examples listed below)
• List out responsibilities

Skill amp; Experience

• 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.

Contract Length

3+ months

IR35 Status

Outside IR35

Location

We have a Leeds HQ with a very flexible hybrid working policy - this role will be largely remote.

Ready to be a Shedder?

We also celebrate each other’s differences and encourage each other to explore new ways of thinking. The result is a diverse set of individuals who come together to create a multi-talented, cohesive organisation. If you think that your uniqueness could make us even stronger, then please get in touch!

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