Technical Business Analyst
Location: Newcastle
Hybrid Working: This role requires working from the Newcastle, Cobalt Business Park office 3 days per week. Offer is subject to BPSS and SC security clearance, requiring a 5‑year continuous UK address history.
As a Technical Business Analyst, You Will
* 1.5‑5 years of experience as a Business Analyst in a software delivery or technology environment.
* Bridge the gap between IT and the business using data analytics to assess processes, elicit requirements and deliver data‑driven recommendations and reports to executives and stakeholders.
* Create functional designs, sequence diagrams, process flows, business rules catalogues and product backlog items to agree detailed requirements with client product owners and clearly communicate what needs to be developed and tested to feature teams.
* Identify, analyze and complete complex business impact assessments across multiple business streams to understand the impact of the product/change.
* Prepare and coordinate business activities to support large implementations.
* Ensure business is operationally ready to support the target operating model.
* Lead business change activities, building communications and designing training plans to support change.
* Support testing by reviewing scripts, triaging defects and assisting with test queries.
* Collaborate with UX/UI designers, developers and testers throughout the software development lifecycle.
* Participate in and facilitate Agile ceremonies (e.g., sprint planning, backlog refinement, stand‑ups).
* Assist in prioritizing the product backlog in alignment with value, risk and dependencies.
* Identify and communicate technical constraints, risks and dependencies to the team and stakeholders.
* Experience working with cross‑functional teams & roles (developers, testers, UX, product, live services, DevOps, technical architects).
* Basic understanding of APIs, databases and system integration concepts.
As a Business Analyst at Senior Analyst and Consultant Career Levels you will
* Operate independently in a high‑impact customer‑facing role.
* Take customers on the journey of requirements identification and elicitation.
* Integrate closely with both business and technology teams to create a holistic vision of the solution that enables successful delivery.
* Work closely with solution architects and technical architects to develop solutions to customers’ problems.
* Coach and lead junior Business Analysts.
* Use a range of Business Analysis tools and techniques and demonstrate experience of their use.
* Shape innovative solutions to problems.
* Demonstrate a proven record of successful delivery and problem solving and take others on that journey.
* Lead on innovative solution design.
Qualification
* Establish and implement mechanisms to measure and deliver benefits.
* Ensure that maximum improvements are made in existing and new business operations as projects deliver their products into operational use.
* Understand business change needs, assess business impact of changes, capture, analyze and document requirements.
* Utilize structured techniques for solution design such as Design Thinking, UML or BPMN.
* Use tools such as JIRA, Confluence, Visio or Excel.
* Demonstrate experience with Agile (Scrum/Kanban) or Waterfall delivery.
* Deliver change in various industry areas, including the Public Sector.
* Write clear, concise user stories and functional requirements.
* Strong proficiency in SQL for data extraction, transformation and analysis.
* Analyze large datasets to identify trends, validate business requirements and uncover data quality issues.
* Familiarity with enterprise platforms, cloud technologies (AWS, Azure, Salesforce) or GenAI.
* Familiarity with UX principles or wireframing tools (Figma, Balsamiq).
Set Yourself Apart
* Hold a professional BA certification.
What’s In It For You
At Accenture you will receive a competitive basic salary, 25 days’ vacation per year, private medical insurance and 3 extra days leave per year for charitable work. Flexibility and mobility are required to deliver this role, as you may need to spend time onsite with clients and partners. Accenture reserves the right to close the role should a suitable applicant be found.
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