Business Analyst

Location: (Blended home working)
Salary: Competitive + Vodafone Benefits
Hours: Full time (37.5 hours per week – Mon to Fri)

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  Blended

Vodafone UK’s blended working approach means you’ll come to your contracted hub location office as and when needed to get things done for your role and for tasks that require it, otherwise you will be able to work from home. Our ‘Office in a Box’ home-working kit will be available for all who need it during your onboarding journey.

Vodafone UK Digital is midway through an exciting digital transformation. The groundwork has been put in place for teams to excel in. We need a Business Analyst who can perform the Business Analyst function across several scrum teams and engage with stakeholders through the wider business. The BA will have a broad and exciting remit to drive Agile culture within their scrum teams and beyond. You will be work closely with Developers, Product Owners, Product Managers, Scrum masters, and Agile leads to understand problems and break down work in order to build collaborative solutions.

We innovate, invent and continuously improve, Vodafone UK Digital works within the heart of our business. Empowering Vodafone’s mission of being a digital-first company is in everything we do.

What will you be doing?

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  You will be responsible for eliciting and refining business needs into functional and non-functional requirements documented intAzure DevOps Board Epics, Features and User Stories
• You will be responsible for leading the output an Agile development team. This includes business stakeholder engagement, prioritisation SAFe PI planning, progress reporting, and final sign-off of deliverable
• You will be accountable for prioritising a development teams backlog, in line with the broader priorities of the business
• You will contribute to the improving of the BA function and role across VF Digital UK through example, and through engagement with all Digital teams
• You will encourage Agile ways of working, coaching teams in best refinement practices, in both your own teams and in partnership with other teams

Who are we looking for?

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  You will be able to comprehend, interrogate, and gain insight into architectural models, processes and communications (microservices, cloud architecture, etc)
• You will have in-depth knowledge of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) methodologies.
• You will work as Business Analyst and team leader on several Agile, Waterfall, SAFe project teams, offshore and onsite.
• You will be familiar with the transaction methods common to software development: APIs, XML, JSON, REST, Message Queues, etc as well as being familiar with server-side architecture
• You will be able to create additional documentation materials, such as wireframes and flow documents.

What’s in it for you?

An excellent remuneration and bonus package with 28 days holiday entitlement, in addition to bank holidays and paid leave for charity projects. We offer an extensive and flexible benefits package that can be tailored to suit you and your family. We’re proud to provide a Reconnect programme with flexibility for individuals returning to work after a career break. From our market-leading parental leave policies through to employee discounts, retail vouchers, pension plan and share schemes we are committed to supporting you throughout your career with Vodafone.

Together we can

Vodafone UK are regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority and all offers of employment for this role are subject to background checks, including criminal (DBS) and financial checks to meet the regulators standards.

If you require any reasonable adjustments or have an accessibility request as part of your recruitment journey, for example, extended time or breaks in between online assessments, a sign language interpreter, or assistive technology, please refer to the Accessibility section of our Careers website (careers.vodafone.co.uk) under Career Support, for guidance.