Technical Business Analyst

Role overview:

Technical Business Analyst
Waterloo - Hybrid Working
Full Time
Fixed Term Contract (12 Months)
Grade 4

At Currys we’re united by one passion: to help everyone enjoy amazing technology. As the UK’s best-known retailer of tech, we’re proud of the service our customers receive – and it’s all down to our team of 25,000 caring and committed colleagues. Working as one team, we learn and grow together, celebrating the big and small moments that make every day amazing.

We are looking for an enthusiastic, energetic and versatile Technical Business Analyst to join our team and assist us with an ambitious transformation portfolio.

This role is ideal for an experienced Technical BA who is looking for more than a standard BA role, and will work within our Technical Business Analysis team, which is part of our Software Engineering function.

This is a technical role and the Technical Business Analysis team work closely with Solution Architecture, contributing to solution design and integrations. Our focus is to ensure that solutions are fit for purpose, complexity is discovered early, gaps are identified, and that solutions are not over engineered.
The team are the bridge between non-technical business requirements, actionable designs, and implementation-ready user stories to ensure successful and predictable delivery. Concentrating on technology and what is required, with an emphasis on understanding the requirements (‘what’), working collaboratively with Solution Architects, (‘how’) and Agile Delivery Managers (‘when’). To succeed you will be comfortable speaking the 3 languages of business, architecture, and technical delivery.

Role overview:

• Contribute to solution proposals and architecture, identify areas of concern and work to resolve these with the wider team, challenge solutions and suggest alternatives where a simpler option could be utilised.
• Assess the technical impacts, plus business or change impacts, that are as a result of the proposed technical solutions and integrations.
• Have awareness of the wider Currys architecture and future technical vision. Be able to look at the proposed solution outside of the scope of the current programme, and the impact and fit to the wider estate, and also to the wider strategic future state.
• Work within a collaborative team, in conjunction with Enterprise and Solution Architecture, ensuring that we have technical solutions and Architectural artefacts that deliver the requirements.
• Within proposed technical solutions identify edge cases, functional gaps, or logic flaws so that revisions can be made before technical delivery starts.
• Facilitate early-stage estimation and ensure that Assumptions, Blockers, Clarifications and Dependencies are documented, and resolved.
• Perform structured analysis to ensure the full impact of change is understood (for example documenting current and future technical processes, data flow diagrams and data models).
• Understand and review requirements, business and non-functional, and provide healthy challenge.
• Deliver gap analysis between current and proposed implementations.
• Ensure that there is a detailed understanding of the scope boundaries, in and out of scope.
• Contribute to epics and stories for key programmes ensuring that the engineering teams are working to actionable requirements.
• Collaborate with the business, SME’s, Delivery, Architects and technical delivery teams to clarify requirements and ensure successful implementation.
• Build and manage excellent working relationships with our business users, delivery teams, architecture teams and technical delivery teams ensuring collaborative working.
• Deliver to agreed timescales, planning and driving work through the different phases of projects.
• Work alongside Business Analysts ensuring that, from a technical delivery point of view, requirements are well understood.

To ensure success, you will demonstrate confidence, experience and creativity with a focus on working with system development teams, system integration and solution architecture. We are looking for outstanding candidates who can bridge the gap between business-led ideation, requirement capture and technical delivery, setting programmes up for success by ensuring an early understanding of What, Why and How.

Required Skills & Experience:

• 4+ years of Technical Business Analysis experience.
• Consistently exhibits core competencies of strategic thinker, trusted adviser, clear communicator, analytical thinker, problem solver and knowledge sharer.
• Confident reviewing and commenting on technical designs, solution architecture and integrations.
• Strength to speak up, challenge ideas, requirements and technical delivery.
• Able to see the big picture and join the dots between activities whilst also having excellent attention to detail
• Experience of and passion to deliver an exceptional service. Have a clear focus on delivering results, working to targets, reviewing and adapting plans accordingly.
• Able to communicate well on both a business and technical level, to all levels of the organisation.
• Proficient knowledge of Agile processes, writing User Story and Acceptance criteria.
• Experience with the full SDLC.
• Knowledge of programming languages and data query languages is desirable.
• Experience of the Atlassian suite is desirable.

Why join us:

Join our team and we'll be with you every step of the way, helping you develop the career you want with new opportunities, on-going training and skills for life.

Not only can you shape your own future, but you can help take charge of ours too. As the biggest recycler and repairer of tech in the UK, we’re in a position to make a real impact on people and the planet.

Every voice has a space at our table and we're committed to making inclusion and diversity part of everything we do, including how we strengthen our workforce. We want to make sure you have a fair opportunity to show us your talents during our application process, so if you need any additional assistance with your application please email [email protected] and we'll do our best to help.