Technical Business Analyst

Simpson
3 days ago
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Job Description

Are you an experienced Business Analyst ready to make an impact?

Join our Group Technology team at Connells Group as a Business Analyst, where you’ll work closely with engineers and business stakeholders to understand day‑to‑day processes, analyse operational needs, and translate requirements into clear Business Requirement Specifications or User Stories. The CPE team is responsible for maintaining and supporting key business systems, as well as managing incidents through ServiceNow, coordinating regular software releases, and addressing technical debt.

We offer a hybrid working arrangement, with two days per week in our Milton Keynes office.

Key responsibilities:

Elicit and capture business requirements

Produce clear, concise business requirements documents and user stories

Proactively work with senior business managers to understand their business processes and needs

Foster a culture of creating excellent working relationships with staff at all levels

Work closely with Lead Engineers and Architects to ensure that requirements are addressed within technical specifications

Translate current state (legacy) processes and system behaviours into target state designs aligned to the Connells X platform (Azure)

Continually communicate to clients on project progression and clarification of requirements

Provide application support as required

Receive and collate all feedback and change requests from the business

Represent the Business Analysis team at business meetings including making presentations

Support the project management of changes into the production environment

Document application and data flows, including key integrations, data transformations and dependencies

Use strong SQL and database analysis skills to understand existing data structures, perform data profiling and support migration planning

Provide application support as required, including investigation of issues using SQL and system logs where appropriate

Mapping and documenting interfaces between legacy and new systems

Experience & Skills Required:

Essential

Strong analytical skills, with the ability to understand complex systems and data flows

Strong SQL and understanding of DB and Cloud services

Strong understanding of modern environments and concepts including (Azure Paas Concepts, APIs and Microservices)

Excellent written and verbal communication skills

Ability to communicate with stakeholders at all levels

Experience working in Agile/Scrum

Desirable

BSC Diploma in Business Analysis (ISEB)

Proficient in using Diagramming tools (Visio/Draw.io/Miro)

Experience in migrating to Cloud platforms (Azure)

Awareness of CI/CD pipelines, git based workflows and concepts such as Infrastructure-as-code (e.g. Terraform)

Experience migrating legacy applications or data to modern platforms or cloud environments

Connells Group UK is an equal opportunities employer and positively encourages applications from suitably qualified and eligible candidates regardless of sex, race, disability, age, sexual orientation, transgender status, religion or belief, marital status, or pregnancy and maternity.

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