Business Analyst

We are looking for a business analyst to form part of the VolkerWessels ICT Projects team, working from our head office in Hoddesdon.

They will be responsible for working closely with stakeholders, from within ICT and the wider business and delivering a high-profile internal solution to automate and integrate the technology solutions across the organisation.

Key Accountabilities

• Liaising with key stakeholders to fully understand requirements and specifications
• Keeping close contact with different stakeholders to manage expectations
• Quickly understands both business issues and technical challenges, in order to identify and address potential gaps
• Defines and documents requirements and specifications, business processes, workflows, and reporting outputs
• Critically evaluates information from multiple sources for a deeper understanding of the underlying business needs
• Participates and contributes in the design and solutioning sessions undertaken by the technical teams
• Actively manages and prioritises the product backlogs and development roadmaps
• Develops testing plans and executes quality assurance and functional testing
• Ensures issues are identified, documented, tracked, reported on, and resolved in a timely manner

Skills and Experience

• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills required, including an understanding of how to interpret customer needs and translate them into clear requirements that can be picked up by the development team
• Excellent attention to detail, as this will reflect in the quality of the captured specifications
• Able to be self-motivated, set priorities and work autonomously on assigned or committed tasks
• Proficient in Microsoft Office (Teams, Visio, Excel )
• Familiarity with .NET applications and enterprise application integration is a plus
• Knowledge of construction industry is a plus but not essential
• Demonstrable and relevant experience in similar roles is required
• Experience of IT Projects using differing delivery methodologies (Waterfall, Agile, DevOps) in a complex environment.

About you:

• You speak the language of business and IT, you are a connector
• You are motivated and want to achieve success with our customers and your team
• You have demonstrable experience with software engineering processes
• You are enthusiastic about working in an agile environment and you feel at home in an accessible, informal organization
• Knowledge of Microsoft Azure is a plus

Other

• A competitive salary plus excellent benefits package including healthcare, pension etc.
• Free parking with electric charging points, canteen and gym on site
• Family friendly policies in place and some scope for flexible working by negotiation.

We believe in pushing boundaries in the pursuit of equality, diversity and inclusion. So, our teams can be comfortable that, whatever their background, VolkerWessels UK is a place where they can be themselves and thrive.