Job Description

Hybrid requirements: This role has flexible working patterns.

The role

You'll lead business analysis activities within projects and be responsible for planning and achieving deliverables for our clients.
You'll provide expert advice to our consultants and contribute towards building the BA community at Opencast.

Essential experience

To succeed in this role, you will have experience as a business analyst across different industries and/or clients. You will also ensure BA activities and outcomes align across multiple work streams and/or projects. Please show how you have:analysed and evaluated complex business systems and processes to recommend improvement opportunities or change initiatives. planned and executed the business analysis deliverables to meet the objectives of a project. delegated and managed the tasks of others. successfully worked within unfamiliar industries and/or clients and quickly adapted to understand the business domain and project needs. built meaningful and lasting relationships with stakeholders to elicit and manage requirements and facilitate the path to delivery. shaped the requirements management approach, including methodology, tools, and processes to enable successful delivery and value. used a variety of BA techniques to solve complex problems and present ideas to stakeholders. coached junior members of a team, sharing your knowledge of best practice and ways of working. experience working in UK central government, delivering services to GDS / UK Service Standard guidelines. experience working in agile delivery teams

Where you'll work

Your working time at Opencast will be split between multiple locations, including from our HQ and hub locations, client site or home. Travel is part of life at Opencast, and takes in account requirements of your work, our clients and your team.
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Culture overview
We want to provide our people with interesting work for organisations that matter to them - we give our people the best chance to grow with us.
Our people are honest, hardworking, open and confident - we are smart self-starters. We strive to protect our family culture and we're not big on hierarchy.
Our internal working groups ensure progressive change to our processes and practices, covering:
o Charity
o Environmental action
o Health and wellbeing
o Inclusive change
o Social committee
o Tech sector engagement
We offer an extensive social and wellbeing calendar providing something for everyone who wants to get involved in Opencast life.
We value and empower our people, doing right by them. We work flexibly and keep hierarchy to a minimum. Our benefits include generous annual leave, training and development, pension, and other financial perks.
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Bonus Scheme
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Cycle To Work
Flexible Hours
Flexible Working
Free Parking
Laptop
Learning Allowance
Pension
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Leadership
David Sarginson
Head of Software Development
Tech overview
Software, digital, & technical delivery
Our software, digital and technical delivery teams work across the development lifecycle, with experienced scrum masters, product owners, business analysts, testers, front-end and back-end software developers. We work with customers to deliver agile transformation and improve ways of working. We have delivered multiple complex services to Government Digital Service (GDS) standards, from discovery through to live.
Architecture
Our growing digital architecture practice combines expertise in enterprise, solution and technical architecture. Our architects work collaboratively to create solutions in the context of our clients' existing technology estates. We advise on the components required to deliver a new service successfully in line with business goals.
DevOps, cloud & platform engineering
Our DevOps, cloud and platform engineering practice brings together leading engineers who are true experts, driving the adoption of a DevOps culture and the benefits of cloud computing. We focus on delivering cost savings, reducing time to market, improving scalability and flexibility, as well as enhancing the quality and security of our delivery.

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Engineering principles
AGILE PROCESS
CODE REVIEWS
CONFIGURATION MANAGEMENT
CONTINUOUS INTEGRATION
MENTORING
MICRO SERVICES
PAIR PROGRAMMING
TEST DRIVEN DEVELOPMENT
UNIT TESTING
Company tech stack
Microsoft Azure


Java


Node.js


MySQL


Microsoft SQL server (MSSQL)


Spring Boot


Spring Data


Spring


Ruby on rails


Spring MVC


Adobe XD


Scalatra


Scala


Splunk


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