Senior Business Analyst / Product Consultant (Defence)

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August 20

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Kainos

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At Kainos we use technology to solve real problems for our customers, overcome big challenges for businesses, and make people’s lives easier.

1001 - 5000 employees

💰 Venture Round on 1986-04

📋 Description

• As a Product Consultant (Senior Associate) in Kainos, you will be responsible for ensuring that your team has a good understanding of business needs so that our customer solutions meet the needs of them and their users. • You will be responsible for articulating problems and processes in ways understood by all stakeholders - both business and technical, and for facilitating the analysis and design of cost-effective software solutions that impact users worldwide.

🎯 Requirements

• Experience in bespoke software delivery, operating as a part of an agile team working for an external customer (experience in a client-facing role in a consulting environment is a must-have). • Active SC clereance, Experience in the public defence sector. • Extensive experience in a relevant commercial or technical environment. • Broad business and technology understanding and a proven awareness of industry trends. • Demonstrable experience of delivering as part of an agile team. • Proficient in stakeholder management, sensitive to the needs of each stakeholder yet comfortable to challenge where appropriate • Excellent user story creation skills, articulating the business needs in a format that is easily consumable by the scrum team (2 years, backlog management, refinement sessions, customers pre-sales, requirements, and priorities and value) talk to end users • Strong business process modelling skills, capturing existing processes, designing new processes and presenting processes to achieve buy-in • Competent facilitator of small groups to achieve focused outcomes. (dev teams, product approval committee, delivery manager. • Highly effective at translating business requirements into cost-effective functional requirements. • Good commercial awareness, always delivering within project constraints. • A strong understanding of Agile and Waterfall Project Management delivery methodologies. • Able to work flexibly and to tight deadlines. • We all work in teams here in Kainos – a proven ability of strong team skills, including working in a multi-disciplinary team is crucial. • Good verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to communicate with a variety of stakeholders. • DESIRABLE Experience of software development or related problem-solving discipline. • Experience of working on client site, delivering high quality digital products. • Stakeholder management experience. • We are passionate about developing people – a demonstrated ability in managing, mentoring and coaching members of your team and wider community is important. • Experience mentoring customer Consultant on good story writing techniques • Agile and waterfall project experience across a range of methodologies (across a range of methodologies and frameworks (e.g. waterfall, scrum, Kanban, etc.). • Active participant in communities of interest (e.g. online groups, speaking at conferences etc.). • Embracing our differences