About the role

Coventry Building Society have an exciting new role for a Senior Business Analyst, to undertake the coordination lead for business analysis within a team. Working closely with the Release Train Engineer, Product Owner, Scrum Master, they have responsibility for supporting the analysis approach, within the team and supporting critical assessment of activity and helping to shape and create the Product Backlog.

A core part of this role is to work closely with all other team level roles to ensure the clarity of and alignment to delivery and maintenance of features aligned Portfolio strategy and committed outcomes as set through increment planning activity. The role requires significant interaction with business stakeholders and third parties to help ensure customer and value-based outcomes are captured in the product backlog of work.

This is a hybrid role, we require the successful candidate to be onsite in Coventry 2 days a week. There will also be a need for occasional travel to Manchester.

We are looking for someone with excellent stakeholder management skills with the ability to influence business decisions and command credibility at all levels, building and managing relationships.

To be successful in this role, it's essential that you're able to demonstrate:

• You'll have experience of managing, supporting, and developing teams to optimise business analysis, backlog activity and value delivery.
• Experience of Agile Business Analysis, having worked in Agile frameworks and Lean mindset, frameworks and practice.
• You'll come from a strong analytical background and have a proven ability in analytical reasoning, including being able to add context to business activities and help drive conclusions.
• An in-depth knowledge of process modelling and visualising business needs (user features, personas, use case analysis etc).
• We require someone who is an excellent communicator who is able to communicate with to both technical and non-technical audiences in a clear, concise style of presentation in oral and written work.
• You'll have knowledge and experience in an agile / scrum environment with a demonstrated appreciation for working within a scaled environment. Well versed with SAFe and understanding of working aligned to Agile Release Trains
• You'll be proactive and able to effectively demonstrate the value of engaging business analysis activities early; helping your team shape, refine and develop features, working with architects throughout their design work to ensure the voice of the business is represented, considering all stakeholders when undertaking analysis.

• With strong interpersonal and communication skills with the ability to work with a collaborative approach and build trust with others effectively.