Description
Utilities
Predominantly remote: travel to Warwick only when necessary (infrequent)
6 months+
£500 per day
In short:
Business Analyst from an OT (Operational Technology - could be water, gas, electricity, oil, petrochem, pharmaceutical, manufacturing) background required to deliver an Intrusion Detection System upgrade across various operational sites in the UK. There will be a small amount of PM support required for the Lead PM so any project management experience would be ideal.
In full:
Purpose:
The OT Cyber Programme operates using a hybrid delivery approach to deliver new products, services and capabilities within the OT cyber security management system. The team aim to support the reduction of systemic and local cyber risk across the OT domain via targeted investment in a number of workstreams which will increase cyber resilience by delivering new products, services and capabilities. The role partially supports the defined programme of activity within the Security Programme but also supports an ongoing cadence of BAU change and maturity improvement.
The OT Cyber Security Business Analyst is responsible for assessing business needs, converting these into formal business requirements, and producing the documents that will allow the definition, development and implementation of a solution that will meet these needs. They will create and provide input to a range of other project deliverables and work across the entire development lifecycle.
Key accountabilities:
- Gather, analyse, define, classify and prioritise functional, non-functional and technical requirements and translate into delivery stories.
- Communicate, translate, and simplify business requirements to ensure buy-in from all stakeholders.
- Identifying and clarifying the current state of the business; identify gaps to close; reach business acceptance.
- Support the PM to define and communicate desired future state.
- Impact assess any change-proposals to baselined requirements providing recommendations to programme change control governance.
- Work with Technical Analyst and Development team ensuring they understand specifications.
- Work with training team to document system scenarios; identify roles impacted; help develop change management/training plan.
- Conduct business process modelling; generate applicable scenarios for technology functionality testing team.
- Perform basic consulting activities (information gathering; analysis; problem resolution; presentation) in accordance with assignment objectives.
- Facilitate or Chair meetings with internal/external stakeholders representing position of organisation/department/project/service. Facilitate views/opinions from senior staff/peers/external organisations; produce supporting meeting documentation.
- Present data in various forms suited for audience using graphical techniques for large groups portraying required information offering supporting narrative as necessary.
- Identify/report on risks/issues/dependencies
- Provide business analysis support to non-business analysis resource undertaking analytical tasks.
- Perform role of Client Lead on workstreams typically project managed by Information Technology.
Knowledge/Experience:
Business Analysis: Expertise with application of Business Analysis techniques/methods/tools; experience implementing/enhancing their application.
Business Modelling: In-depth knowledge/business modelling techniques experience obtaining input/communicating results senior managers agreement.
Data Modelling: Experience establishing/maintaining data structure using data analysis/data modelling techniques.
Experience reviewing requirements/specifications defining test conditions designing/creating test scripts mapping back pre-determined criteria recording/reporting outcomes.
Excellent written/verbal communication skills creating unambiguous project artifacts.
Stakeholder Relationship Management/Consultancy: Experience established consulting activities including facilitating stakeholder groups eliciting stakeholder requirements.
Working knowledge Agile/Waterfall Methodologies
Candidates should ideally show evidence above in their CV in order considered.
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