Business Analyst

Department: IT Services
Salary: £52,549 - £58,595 per annum (Grade 6)
Reference: 2260
Location: Department W, 81 Mile End Road
Date posted: 16 May 2024
Closing date: 31 May 2024

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About the Role

Business Analysts will work within a complex and rapidly changing environment to deliver IT projects across Queen Mary University and will make a major contribution to the successful delivery of the Queen Mary strategic plan. They will execute business and systems architecture analysis activities throughout the life cycle of IT projects i.e., feasibility, analyses, functional and non-functional, requirements gathering, scoping, procurement, transition, post-go-live, solution and supplier evaluation, implementation and post-implementation reviews. Business Analyst considers how a wide range of work tasks and processes across and within departments could be changed to achieve a more efficient service. Analyses existing processes, the technical landscape and any human factors in order to achieve an optimal solution for users.

About You

This is a challenging and important position for a highly organized, logical, self-starter, with excellent communications skills, and attention to detail, who has excellent planning, communication, negotiation and influencing skills. You will assist the organisation through the process of change by using a structured business analysis approach/framework. To do this, you must understand not only analysis methodologies, but also the business. This includes understanding Queen Mary’s business goals, corporate values, and corporate culture. Alongside that, the BA must display a knowledge of current and emergent technologies and have the technical expertise to apply those to business needs.

About the Department

IT Services is a key enabler to the successful fulfilment of Queen Mary’s strategic goals of excellence in research, and teaching and learning. Our services support students and colleagues and range from email and internet access, to state-of-the-art teaching and learning facilities, business application software and high performance computing in support of research.

About Queen Mary

At Queen Mary University of London, we believe that a diversity of ideas helps us achieve the previously unthinkable.

Throughout our history, we’ve fostered social justice and improved lives through academic excellence. And we continue to live and breathe this spirit today, not because it’s simply ‘the right thing to do’ but for what it helps us achieve and the intellectual brilliance it delivers.

We continue to embrace diversity of thought and opinion in everything we do, in the belief that when views collide, disciplines interact, and perspectives intersect, truly original thought takes form.

Benefits

We offer competitive salaries, access to a generous pension scheme, 30 days’ leave per annum (pro-rata for part-time/fixed-term), a season ticket loan scheme and access to a comprehensive range of personal and professional development opportunities. In addition, we offer a range of work life balance and family friendly, inclusive employment policies, flexible working arrangements, and campus facilities including an on-site nursery at the Mile End campus.

Queen Mary’s commitment to our diverse and inclusive community is embedded in our appointments processes. Reasonable adjustments will be made at each stage of the recruitment process for any candidate with a disability. We are open to considering applications from candidates wishing to work flexibly.

We particularly welcome applications from people who identify as Black, Asian or Minority Ethnic groups /women/men as these groups are underrepresented at this level at Queen Mary.

Valuing Diversity & Committed to Equality

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