Technical Business Analyst - Asset Management - Lorien Impellam

6 month contract - Asset Management Inside IR35 Key responsibilities • Act as a strategic interface between business units and technology teams, ensuring solutions are aligned with business goals and technically feasible. • Build strong relationships with key business stakeholders and colleagues to elicit, refine, and communicate evolving requirements in a business-focused manner. • Facilitate and support discussions within multidisciplinary teams, navigating complex or challenging dynamics effectively. • Collaborate with project managers and delivery leads by regularly assessing the progress and effectiveness of discovery and analysis activities, taking action as needed to meet agreed timelines and quality standards. • Create artefacts that support agile delivery, such as user stories with acceptance criteria (e.g. in JIRA). • Maintain high-quality repositories of business knowledge and documentation using tools like JIRA, Confluence, and SharePoint. • Communicate effectively within agile delivery frameworks to support development teams and ensure shared understanding of requirements. • Identify and document risks, issues, and dependencies that may impact the successful delivery of requirements. • Contribute to the development of sustainable, commercially viable change solutions that support Asset Management goals across the full delivery lifecycle (discovery, analysis/design, build, test, and business readiness). • Share knowledge and promote learning across the Business Analyst community and wider teams. What we're looking for Essential • Working in the banking, pensions and finance / asset management industry and highly regulated environments. • Experience with gathering and interpret business process and technical requirements and creating detailed process maps (as is and to be) • Understanding of the key concepts of data platforms, warehouses/lakes • Experience working with Investment Management platforms covering both capital markets and policyholder e.g. Cloud Data Platforms (e.g. AWS or Snowflake) • Familiar with Order Management Systems (e.g. Aladdin) • Relevant experience working as part of an agile team - end to end i.e. discovery, analysis/design, build, test and business readiness • Experience engaging with third party vendors and collaborating on joint technology solutions • Great stakeholder management and engagement skills • Excellent communication, influencing and facilitation skills, in particular for problem solving and troubleshooting activities, ability to communicate effectively in a technical and non-technical ways. • Ability to demonstrate resilience, flexibility and adapt to changing schedules and priorities Delivery Experience • Knowledge of Agile methodologies and tooling to support agile delivery of projects (e.g. Jira/Confluence) • Experience in writing user stories and managing product backlogs. • Experience in working closely with developers to translate the business neds into design specifications (e.g. interface specifications or report specifications) • Experience in modern ways of working (examples include Agile, CI/CD, DevOps, Test Automation) • Understanding of data concepts e.g. Data Management/Governance • Understanding of architecture and design concepts for data exploitation solutions • Experience using technologies includes Analytics (E.g. R & Python), Reporting (E.g. Quicksight, Tableau, Qlik, Power BI) & APIs • Demonstrable expertise in the areas of business analysis in large complex IT estates Desirable • Membership of a professional body • Degree in Computer Science, Technology or Engineering or similar Guidant, Carbon60, Lorien & SRG - The Impellam Group Portfolio are acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.