The company

Our client requires a Business Analyst to join their fast-growing team and develop business requirements from the ground up with their customers and translate these into technical requirements. Their customers are primarily Telecoms biased, however, not exclusively and an understanding of large scale IT systems is ideal.

Theyare a dynamic and exciting company that started up 5 years ago. Theyhave some of the largest names in Telecoms as their clients and theycontinue to innovate with their products - not only to keep them ahead of their competition but to create industry best and technology direction, as well as thought leadership.

Theyspecialise and are a leader in ETL, Big Data, Analytics, and Machine Learning, with award-winning solutions that transform their clients' operations.

The company continues to grow, and this role represents an excellent opportunity to join a successful and ambitious team that strives to over achieve.

Ideally you should have between 3-6 years relevant experience in telecoms, Network / Radio experience is good but not vital. You must be able to demonstrate experience in gathering, developing and rationalising requirements and then producing detailed requirement specifications and process flows for software developers.

Experience in the following is ideal:

• Knowledge of CRM / Business Intelligence.
• Billing system.
• Configuration Management system experience.
• Provisioning systems.
• Performance management systems.
• Development & execution of test specifications.
• System installation and end to end delivery
• Requirements gathering and analysis
• Analysing and building advanced SQL queries for use cases such as extracts, KPIs etc
• Developing and maintaining requirements and design documentation

Additional Experience (preferably in Telecoms):

• Mobile Telecoms Networks.
• 3GPP standards.
• Radio Data migration.

Desired Technical Skills:

• UNIX Operating System experience and related script creation and maintenance.
• Understanding of Hadoop, and related tools (Yarn, ZooKepper, etc).
• Understanding of Analytical Tools, such as MapReduce / Spark.
• Use of SQL and other SQL type tools with NoSQL database tools (e.g. MongoDB)
• Familiarity with Python, Java
• Use of visualisation tools such as Kibana, Tableau, etc
• Familiarity with Cache Technologies, such as Redis.
• Familiarity with Virtualisation and Container Methods.
• Familiarity with Alarm Generation and Monitoring Approaches

Essential skills:

• Excellent written and verbal communication.
• Problem solving.
• Flexibility.
• Well organised and self-motivated.
• Willingness and flexibility with travelling.

You will need to:

• Spend time with customers in the UK and abroad, and will have to lead them through the requirement gathering and implementation processes.
• Arrange meetings and interviews to gather the requirements and verify them with the customer.
• Turn business requirements into meaningful technical requirements for software developers to build from.
• Track progress of development and check direction.
• Develop test specifications and test plans.
• Assist with on-site implementations.
• Educated to degree level (or equivalent) in a technical subject.

This is a central client-facing role, requiring an ability to guide the customer through the complex process of billing systems change, and rewarding you with the satisfaction of providing clients with a first-class service.

All candidates must be able to travel abroad at short notice, once international travel restrictions have eased sufficiently.

**Please ignore the salary stated in the job board, as it will be negotiated depending on the candidate's skillset and experience