Salary scale: £54,519- £65,000 per annum 

Closing date: 8 January 2025

What is the purpose of this job?

The Technical Business Analyst - Data will work with our programme and project managers to identify and define the technical analysis elements of a programme of work, assisting the programme/project manager in planning and delivering these activities. 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:

·       Workingwithinternal 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.

In order to provide data scope and design work, you will;

• 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

Who will my key contacts be?

·       Department for Transport

·       RDG Senior Leaders

·       RDG Projects and Programmes Team

·       Internal technicalsupporting 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 requirementsand 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 ispreferable

·       Ability to keep up with IT advancements

Benefits

• 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