Senior Business Analyst

Join us as a Senior Business Analyst, shaping business requirements into actionable solutions, guiding Agile teams through ceremonies, and prioritizing work with Product Owners. You will engage stakeholders effectively and ensure clarity across delivery teams. You’ll also benefit from being part of a vast professional network, collaborating with industry mentors and experts.

• Requirements Analysis, communicating with Ops/Business and feature/user story documentation.
• Agile facilitation – chairing Agile ceremonies with the Squad, owning Backlog refinement with Product owners and managing Jira.
• Stakeholder engagement, communication & servant leadership.

• Deep understanding of scrum framework, agile principles and related methodologies with certification in SaFE/other Agile methodologies.
• Experience working in large transformative programmes using Agile or waterfall delivery model.

• Identification and analysis of business problems and client requirements that require change within the organisation.
• Development of business requirements that will address business problems and opportunities.
• Collaboration with stakeholders to ensure that proposed solutions meet their needs and expectations.
• Support the creation of business cases that justify investment in proposed solutions.
• Conduct feasibility studies to determine the viability of proposed solutions.
• Support the creation of reports on project progress to ensure proposed solutions are delivered on time and within budget.
• Creation of operational design and process design to ensure that proposed solutions are delivered within the agreed scope.
• Support to change management activities, including development of a traceability matrix to ensure proposed solutions are successfully implemented and embedded in the organisation.

• To advise and influence decision making, contribute to policy development and take responsibility for operational effectiveness. Collaborate closely with other functions/business divisions.
• Lead a team performing complex tasks, using well developed professional knowledge and skills to deliver on work that impacts the whole business function. Set objectives and coach employees in pursuit of those objectives, appraisal of performance relative to objectives and determination of reward outcomes.
• Demonstrate clear leadership behaviours: L – Listen and be authentic, E – Energise and inspire, A – Align across the enterprise, D – Develop others.
• or for an individual contributor, lead collaborative assignments and guide team members through structured assignments, identify the need for the inclusion of other areas of specialisation to complete assignments. Identify new directions for assignments and/or projects, identifying a combination of cross functional methodologies or practices to meet required outcomes.
• Consult on complex issues; providing advice to People Leaders to support the resolution of escalated issues.
• Identify ways to mitigate risk and developing new policies/procedures in support of the control and governance agenda.
• Take ownership for managing risk and strengthening controls in relation to the work done.
• Perform work that is closely related to that of other areas, which requires understanding of how areas coordinate and contribute to the achievement of the objectives of the organisation sub-function.
• Collaborate with other areas of work, for business aligned support areas to keep up to speed with business activity and the business strategy.
• Engage in complex analysis of data from multiple sources of information, internal and external sources such as procedures and practises (in other areas, teams, companies, etc). to solve problems creatively and effectively.
• Communicate complex information. 'Complex' information could include sensitive information or information that is difficult to communicate because of its content or its audience.
• Influence or convince stakeholders to achieve outcomes.

This role will be based in either our Glasgow or Knutsford office.

To support the organisation, achieve its strategic objectives by the identification of business requirements and solutions that address business problems and opportunities.

All colleagues will be expected to demonstrate the Barclays Values of Respect, Integrity, Service, Excellence and Stewardship – our moral compass, helping us do what we believe is right. They will also be expected to demonstrate the Barclays Mindset – to Empower, Challenge and Drive – the operating manual for how we behave.