Description
What you'll do
- Responsible for leading analysis and design for strategic initiatives
- Collaborate with Delivery Leads, Engineering Leads and Solution Architects from across Technology to identify, shape and deliver solutions
- Support Delivery Leads and Engineering Leads to ensure that features and stories to be delivered by the delivery team are suitably well defined and structured
- Responsible for contributing to the analysis, development, build and testing of working software required by the Delivery Leads and Engineering Leads
- Accountable for ensuring user stories are delivered to the 'working system' definition of done within an agreed sprint
- Accountable for ensuring committed objectives are met
- Supporting scrum teams with agile planning, including sizing stories, parsing user stories into tasks etc.
- Working with colleagues from other agile teams and shared service teams to both communicate and accept dependencies
- Supporting the team in readiness for the System Demo
- Participate enthusiastically and effectively in Schroders Agile ceremonies
- Ensuring continued improvement through conducting regular retrospective reviews and executing high priority actions that emerge
- Committing to increasing your skills and experience in non-core specialisms (Dev, Test)
- Supporting other team members to improve their analysis skills and experiences
- Performing the role of Scrum Master for an agile team if required to do so
- Supporting the development of the wider GT organisation through leadership of communities, guilds or key involvement in other non-core activities
The knowledge, experience and qualifications you need
- Wide experience of business analysis across a number of different capabilities, systems or teams; number of different experiences is valued higher than length of experience
- High level of technical skill in use of business analysis techniques, methodologies and artefacts to support agile software development
- Knowledge and experience of software development or testing. Common programming languages and testing tools are preferred
- Extensive knowledge and experience of contributing to the development of technology solutions, both in house developed bespoke applications and commercially available off the shelf solutions
- Familiarity with Agile delivery methodologies
- Experience of working with global colleagues and stakeholders and sensitive to cultural differences, time zones etc.
- Ability to understand the needs and drivers of the business domain
- Excellent ability to communicate how the work [features and stories] delivered by the Capability teams contributes to Epics
- Excellent command of the English language, both written and spoken
The knowledge, experience and qualifications that will help
Educated to Bachelors degree level