Senior Business Analyst

Description:

Senior Business Analyst (Strategy)
Manchester/Hybrid (1 day every 2 weeks)
6 months
Circa £500 per day (Outside IR35)

A Senior Business Analyst is require for our client who are based in Manchester. The successful candidate will have an organisation wide view of applications and technology, leading in many areas regarding to technology and application strategy. The strategy Senior Business Analyst will input into strategic direction of our enterprise applications and technologies at the organisation.
You will be required to gain knowledge of the organisation's processes, systems and data as well as developing strategic relationships between internal and external stakeholders and suppliers. You will be required to assist with the design future strategies for our application architecture based upon key strategic decisions and architect the organisation strategic enterprise solutions.
Reporting directly to the Enterprise Architect, you will work closely with Product Managers, Architects and Lead Engineers to devise strategic changes to application and technical infrastructure.
Responsibilities:
* You will be inputting into the strategic design of solutions architecture of the Information Systems within the organisation and will build a strategic roadmap for the core enterprise systems.
* Work with colleagues in building strategic roadmaps.
* Develop detailed strategic roadmaps for a range of technology led enterprise-wide transformations.
* Assist in the development of technical recommendations in terms of technology adoptions and rollouts.
* To work closely with the management team and stakeholders across the organisation to develop the organisation's information systems strategy, including ensuring that the strategy is aligned with the corporate strategy and supports and advances business capabilities.
* To support the IT innovation function looking to identify how emergent technologies can provide business benefit.
* To apply the relevant management systems, procedures and policies relating to risk management, health and safety, information security and business continuity.
Skills required:
* Experience of developing roadmaps in support of application and technology strategy.
* Experience of producing architectural documentation when designing strategic solutions.
* Experience of enterprise-wide software analysis and design, ideally on Customer Relationship Management or Enterprise Resource Planning systems.
* Knowledge of software modelling techniques (e.g. UML, ArchiMate, BPMN) in designing information systems architectures and platforms.
* Understanding of emergent technologies and how they can benefit organisations.
* Can demonstrate excellent customer service ensuring the needs of internal and external customers are met and our services and contact with customers are delivered positively.
Desirable criteria
* Innovative and able to solve problems logically and methodically. Suggest improvements to individual, team and department processes