Technical Business Analyst Data

Closing date: 17 October 2024

What is the purpose of this job?

You will use your business understanding, technical expertise, and problem-solving skills to support the Rail Delivery Group implement technical solutions in a cost-effective way.

You will also be required to support the data scope and design workstream.

To ensure success as a technical business analyst, you should demonstrate experience and creativity in system development and application design, combining IT expertise with in-depth business knowledge.

What can I expect to do in this job?

Working closely with the Programme and Project Managers, you can expect to be involved in the following:

• Working with internal and external customers, technical and other teams as required to understand detailed wants and needs, identifying and articulating solution options, rules, benefits, and risks.
• Helping to define the scope and objectives of the programme delivery with other team members, ensuring both business and other stakeholder needs are being considered and delivered.
• Responsible for bridging the gap between business needs and technical solutions, translating needs into a mutually agreeable set of prioritised requirements through engagement with stakeholders and delivery teams.
• Define and implement appropriate systems, processes and controls for technical requirements gathering and management of all the technical business analysis deliverables across the whole delivery lifecycle.
• Business process mapping and re-engineering as applicable.
• Ensure full traceability of technical requirements from proposition to high level business requirements, through to detailed requirements with acceptance criteria and beyond.
• Identify and manage issues and risks associated with requirements, escalating into programme risks and issues as required.

• Work closely with stakeholders, data engineers, data scientists, and other technical teams to ensure that data solutions meet business objectives and deliver value to the organisation.
• Use different methods and techniques, such as statistical analysis, data visualization, data mining, or machine learning, to identify patterns, trends, correlations, or anomalies in the data.
• Data Mapping and Transformation: map data sources to target systems, identifying data transformation and integration requirements.
• Document data flow diagrams, data dictionaries, and data lineage for data pipelines and processes

• Department for Transport
• RDG Senior Leaders
• RDG Projects and Programmes Team
• Internal technical supporting functions (e.g. architecture, data)
• Third party suppliers
• Train Operating Companies[RF5] (TOCs) and owning groups / member organisation representatives
• Public bodies

Requirements

What experience, skills and knowledge do I need?

Some of the specific skills and knowledge we are looking for include:

• A bachelors degree in computer science, business information management, or another related degree would be desirable or equivalent industry experience.
• Proven work experience as a Technical Business Analyst, or in a closely related area in a professional environment.
• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills - experience and knowledge of analysis activities across the full project development lifecycle.
• Experience of documenting requirements using use cases, user stories and other techniques.
• Knowledge of solution architecture and integration in the support of design decisions.
• System and process modelling and re-engineering using the appropriate modelling tools such as Visio
• Collaboration and facilitation skills to work effectively with a broad range of both internal and external stakeholders, running workshops and posing the right questions to gather requirements and challenge design details and assumptions.
• Ability to create product backlogs in the appropriate system to enable prioritisation with stakeholders and delivery teams.
• Attention to detail, enabling issues to be identified, coupled with thoroughness and a determination to resolve them.
• Ability to produce excellent quality written documentation to support your work, report on findings and present to stakeholders when required.
• Proactive and delivery focused, with exceptional communication skills which facilitate the use of new software systems.
• Advanced knowledge of programming languages like SQL and system integration solutions along with detailed knowledge of data security and encryption.
• Able to balance customer, project, and development needs for a particular project delivery. Escalating any conflict at appropriate times
• Exposure to project management processes for agile and waterfall projects
• Experience with database and model design and segmentation techniques
• Data analysis skills to investigate issues and identify impacts (Excel/SQL/data visualisation tools)
• Capability to translate business requirements into data-related solutions.
• Previous experience of working in rail is preferable
• Ability to keep up with IT advancements

• 30 days annual leave
• 75% reduction on UK rail travel (for work and leisure) - more below
• Reduced international rail travel
• Interest free season ticket loan
• Contributory defined benefit pension scheme
• Give As You Earn scheme
• Subsidised private medical care
• Healthcare cash plan scheme
• Employee Assistance Programme scheme
• Flexible working
• 30 weeks full pay for maternity, adoption and shared parental leave (subject to eligibility)
• Personal Development Days
• Employees may sell up to a maximum of five days’ leave. Employees can buy up to a maximum of five days’ leave. These figures will be pro rata for part-time employees