Digital Business Analyst
Role Overview
Digital Business Analyst in WMCA’s new Product team, translating business needs into practical technology and digital solutions.
Work with Solution Architects, Developers, Technology & Insight colleagues, stakeholders, and teams across WMCA.
Contribute to programmes including Bus Franchising and website transformation.
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Role overview
Digital Business Analyst in WMCA’s new Product team, translating business needs into practical technology and digital solutions.
Work with Solution Architects, Developers, Technology & Insight colleagues, stakeholders, and teams across WMCA.
Contribute to programmes including Bus Franchising and website transformation.
Responsibilities
- Evaluate internal functions, business development strategies, and IT processes; recommend improvements and identify automation opportunities.
- Investigate stakeholder feedback on services, functions, and products through evaluation, design, and implementation.
- Translate business requirements into functional specifications, requirements, user stories, and actionable outcomes.
- Oversee change evaluation and supplier delivery; ensure organisational requirements are understood and delivered.
- Maintain documentation and requirement traceability throughout delivery.
- Map as-is and to-be processes and identify efficiency improvements.
- Gather and document requirements through stakeholder engagement and facilitated workshops.
- Understand current organisational processes, systems, services, and ways of working.
Essential experience and skills
- At least 2 years’ Business Analyst experience or sufficient experience on large-scale projects.
- Experience working in a Business Analyst team across projects of varying sizes.
- Experience across the Business Analysis lifecycle, from pre-project work and scoping through requirements, testing, and release.
- Experience supporting as-is to to-be change and identifying approaches within a defined business case.
- Experience with Business Analysis and Process Mapping tools.
- Strong stakeholder relationships, risk and issue management, technical and analytical skills, project management, communication, and interpersonal skills.
- Business Analysis certification or proven experience working at this level.
Location and work arrangement
- The role is based at 16 Summer Lane, Birmingham, B19 3SD, with at least two days a week in the office.
Contract term
- The role is a 24-month fixed-term contract.
Application
- Applicants are asked to address each essential criterion in a supporting statement.
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