Job Description
Business Analyst / Product Owner
Contract Length: 6 months
IR35: Inside IR35
Location: Bristol – 2 days per week onsite (3 remote)
Start: ASAP
Team Environment: Embedded within an established engineering team (UK + offshore)
Role Overview
We are seeking a Business Analyst / Product Owner to support an engineering team working on a large-scale modernisation programme.
The BA/PO will play a central role in backlog management, requirements definition, stakeholder alignment, and sprint readiness, ensuring efficient delivery and removing friction for developers. This role is critical for enabling predictable delivery and supporting the progressive migration of services to modern cloud architecture.
Key Responsibilities
* Act as the primary point of contact for requirements clarification, backlog organisation, and story refinement.
* Manage, prioritise, and maintain the product backlog to ensure sprint readiness.
* Work directly with engineering teams (UK and offshore) to provide clear acceptance criteria, user stories, and requirement definitions.
* Support cross-team alignment where features or changes have dependencies across domains.
* Facilitate Agile ceremonies including sprint planning, stand-ups, refinement sessions, and reviews.
* Work with stakeholders to translate business needs into actionable work items that developers can deliver efficiently.
* Provide support in interpreting domain-specific rules and policies, especially those embedded in the custom metadata-driven forms and business rules engine.
* Coordinate with QA teams to ensure stories meet acceptance and compliance requirements.
* Maintain consistent communication with product, architecture, and engineering stakeholders to ensure smooth delivery flow.
* Contribute to continuous improvement of processes, sprint predictability, and team throughput.