Job Overview: Technical Business analyst

Roles and responsibilities:

Provide input into technical impact and gap analysis, design and research, working as part of a technical capability team in one or more missions to enable mission design and delivery, and as part of capacity planning and lifecycle management activities.

Support the team and the diverse stakeholders (Product Owners, Technical Product Owners, Solution Designers and Solution Owners, as well as DevOps Engineers, Testers, and Technical Writers) to analyse business needs, and develop and document both functional and non-functional specifications/stories, model workflows, model data, clarify business rules and acceptance criteria to enable capability teams to successfully deliver value and mission epics.

Support the team and Technical Product Owner to apply analytical thinking during iterative analysis, development, and testing activities, to provide input and anticipate and resolve issues in the identification, reporting, and closing of gaps in acceptance and feasibility.

Support the team and Technical Product Owners to break down work into epics, features, stories, and specifying acceptance criteria, to enable the effective planning and delivery of work, when working in Agile teams.

Apply sound technical skills in specific functional or technical domains for assigned technical capability teams to drive solution development and/or resolve problems within the team.

Required skills for Tech BAs in our space are as follows:

Requirements Analysis

Stakeholder Management

Process Mapping

Data Analytics

Agile Practices

Problem Solving

Communicating - written and verbal

Workshop Facilitation

Commercial Acumen

User Story Writing

Presentation Skills

Collaboration

Strategic Thinking

Influencing

Negotiation

Prioritisation

JIRA

Confluence