Job Description
Lead Business Analyst
Remote
What it's like to work at Landmark:
We're a friendly, dynamic and supportive team. We encourage passion, ambition and collaboration, both in our performance as a team and individually. New ideas are encouraged. We actively promote involvement in the development and direction of our products and services, as well as finding more efficient ways to work. We also love a good work social and team building events. As well as this we offer:
- Competitive salary
- 25 days’ holiday, with optional 5 days unpaid leave per year
- Free parking
- Annual lifestyle allowance of £300 to put towards an activity of your choice
- Cycle to Work scheme and Gym Flex scheme
- Internal coaching/mentoring system throughout your time here
- Focus on training and career progression
- Family friendly policies
- Happy to talk about flexible working
The Opportunity
The Lead Business Analyst will be responsible for the methodical investigation, analysis, review and documentation of all, or part of the business, in terms of business requirements, business processes, business functions, data and systems. They will work closely with Architecture, Project Management, Product Management and Engineering to understand the key business drivers, to provide business analysis services in support of projects and business as usual, to aid the achievement of Landmark Information Group’s business goals. You will lead, grow and promote the new business analysis function and also have line management responsibilities.
Your responsibilities will include:
- Elicit programme and project requirements using interviews, document analysis and other techniques
- Writing requirements specifications and user stories, depending on the project methodology according to standard templates, simply and clearly
- Using standard business analysis techniques, providing supporting diagrams utilising use cases, story boarding scenario analysis, business process diagrams utilising BPMN2.0 for as is and to be
- Collaborate with stakeholders to ensure alignment to the business architecture, product management and engineering
- Actively supporting development and test activities and participating in show and tells to ensure requirements and user stories have been correctly interpreted
- Coaching the new business analysis function and ensuring it runs smoothly
- Line management and capacity planning of business analysts
About You
We are looking for someone with a proven background as a Senior or a Lead Business Analyst. You will be easily approachable by the team and willing to assist where required. You will be someone who promotes the Business Analysis discipline and can assist in defining the standards and ways of working across the business analyst community.
You will also have/be:
- Collaborative, curious, creative and accountable
- Experience managing, coaching and leading a team of business analysts
- Good communicator to all levels of stakeholders
- Superior analytical and problem-solving skills
- Ability to work in both waterfall and agile projects, understanding the pros and cons for each
- Question the why? Be able to ask questions, suggest alternative options and drive continuous improvement
- Undertaken Business Analysis skills training
- Experience of working with architecture disciplines and assisting on increasing the Business Architecture domain
About Us
Landmark Information Group holds a wide portfolio of market leading PropTech businesses that span an incredible range of markets and technology platforms across the sector. With well-known application suites, online services and massive national scale property data as well as premier geospatial datasets we are at the forefront of innovation and thought leadership in the industry.
We deliver award-winning solutions to estate agency, conveyancing, surveying, lender valuations, land asset management, environmental consultancy, and Government markets. This is a chance to join the business as we make major steps forward in leveraging the latest cloud and large-scale technologies to start bringing together the entire market to a unified platform.
We are proud to be an equal opportunities employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees.
Job Types: Full-time, Permanent
Benefits:
- Company pension
- Cycle to work scheme
- Free parking
- On-site parking
- Private medical insurance
- Referral programme
- Sick pay
- Work from home
Schedule:
Supplemental pay types:
Application question(s):
- What is your desired salary?
Work Location: Remote
Reference ID: GH488