Business Analyst / Product Owner - Warrington/Remote

An established and growing software house are looking to bring in a Business Analyst to the team who has experience as a Product Owner and would long term want to progress their career into a Product Manager role.

Your main responsibility will be to turn the initial business input into a well-managed pipeline of properly fleshed out user stories, and to do so in a way that ensures that both technical and business perspectives are heard, evaluated and appreciated.

Responsibilities as a BA:

• Carry out the full BA lifecycle, i.e. needs analysis and scope definition, planning and monitoring, requirements elicitation, supporting the quality assurance and implementation processes.
• Challenge and flesh out (and create) the value (business) case.
• Manage the backlog of development requests with key stakeholders and facilitate the prioritisation of requests based on the value case.
• Build a relationship with the development team and stakeholders and use it to create a shared understanding of problems being solved.
• Define the end to end flow of any requirement identifying stakeholder departments and the user journey, creating a 'joined up' map of what will be delivered and by whom.
• Ownership of the current scoping process.
• Drive the process of discovering available alternative solutions and selecting the right solution based on business and technical constraints and opportunities
• Translate initial business input into fleshed out user stories in co-operation with operations, marketing, sales, developers, and other internal or external stakeholders
• Act as part of the development team in presenting a backlog of requirements for scheduling.
• Support the development team with a business driven perspective on the scope (why are we doing this) and facilitate the process of discovering solutions to technical problems (how can we do this)
• Support the QA process by assisting in creating acceptance criteria, facilitating the UAT process etc.
• Define and coordinate other activities associated with any piece of development work carried out, e.g. operational changes, training, implementation requirements, internal and external comms, documentation, marketing requirements etc.

Skills/Tools used

• Requirements elicitation
• Story board mapping
• User story creation
• Prioritization
• Jira

Responsibilities as a Product Owner:

Define and own the Product Roadmap for both near term deliverables and overall product strategy.

• Establish the market and value proposition for new products and product features
• Ownership of the product strategy and prioritisation based on clear business cases
• Support pre-sales activity
• Work with marketing to develop communication plans
• Develop well formed requirements specifications to feed into the development process
• Work with Development to ensure timely delivery of new functionality
• Acceptance of deliverables prior to go-live
• Fully understand the requirements for enhancements and new features to the product set