Lead Analyst

Role overview

Working arrangements

• Hybrid working, primarily split between home in the UK and the London or Bracknell head office.
• Office attendance is currently around twice weekly, with additional attendance for key meetings and visits to other locations as needed.

Salary and contract

• Expected salary is up to £85,000, depending on experience.
• The role is permanent.

Key responsibilities

• Enable product-team change delivery through clear, comprehensively elicited requirements, using Agile, Waterfall or hybrid approaches.
• Work across discovery, shaping, build and implementation with delivery and technical colleagues to align solutions with business and operational objectives.
• Manage business, technical and operational requirements; challenge scope and priorities to optimize value.
• Understand end-to-end processes, identify cross-team dependencies, and support planning, prioritization and estimation.
• Support analysts and share practice in the analysis community; advocate for improved analysis approaches.
• Continue developing skills and keeping up with technologies and techniques.

Essential skills and experience

• Experience delivering and supporting solutions in an IT delivery and operations environment.
• Proven experience delivering change in a cross-functional product team.
• Ability to independently drive analysis from concept through completion and manage competing priorities.
• Strong attention to detail, analytical thinking and problem-solving skills; evidence of delivering innovative change.
• Experience with AI- or automation-led change, including lifecycle management, integration and adoption in complex environments.
• Extensive stakeholder management experience with senior business and technical stakeholders.
• Experience using requirements elicitation techniques and selecting appropriate techniques for different programmes, projects or product teams.