Business Systems Analyst Lead

A prestigious Lloyd's Syndicate has an exciting opportunity for a Business Systems Analyst Lead  to join a growing team and be responsible for leading a team of business systems analysts who partner all areas of the business and IT to help implement fully integrated solutions as their enterprise architecture evolves to support business growth. 
You will be able to capture business requirements and look at systems holistically to assess interfaces between applications, databases and middleware systems.

Key Responsibilities

Lead a team of Business Systems Analysts, covering:

• Author / define team’s analysis standards, procedures and best practices.
• Peer review of analysis outputs ensuring they can move on to next stage in SDLC.
• Mentor team members, fostering professional growth, and encouraging best practices.
• Take a leading role in estimating, prioritising, planning and coordinating of analysis activities
• Break down complex requirements into manageable product deliverables.
• Support the Head of Enterprise Application Architecture as the acting Scrum Master, covering:
• Facilitate Scrum ceremonies, i.e., daily stand-ups, sprint planning, review and retrospective.
• Creating and maintain project timelines, monitoring progress against project goals.
• Identify and troubleshoot obstacles that are hindering the team’s progress.
• Form strong business partnerships with the Business, and Business Excellence to understand the business process / business requirements.
• Lead or participate in multiple projects by completing project documentation, managing scope, adjusting schedules when necessary, and following agreed escalation paths:
• Elicit, impact assess, analyse and translate business requirements into system requirements.
• Support BAU processes in relation to applications covering system configuration changes, monitoring integrations, and training on system functionality.
• Liaise with Business Users, Application Developers, Software QAs to ensure system requirements are understood from all sides.
• Partner Head of Application Architecture and Senior Solution Architect to conduct assessments on new systems to ensure technology meets Enterprise Architecture requirements.

Support the Head of Enterprise Application Architecture in developing and maintaining an asset register of all applications, including documentation of BAU IT processes supporting the applications.

Essential Experience

• 5+ years’ experience in Business Systems Analysis in the Specialty Insurance Industry.
• Line management experience.
• Project Management experience.
• Experience with Scrum/Agile development methodologies.
• Documenting Use Cases, System Requirement specs, User Stories, and Acceptance Criteria.Process analysis, data mapping and data analytical skills using SQL and Excel.
• Extensive knowledge of RESTful APIs.