Senior Technical Business Analyst – Contract

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Our client is a global media company with a range of well-known iconic brands under their belt. The company’s award-winning content reaches millions of consumers in print, digital and across their social platforms and generates more than 1 billion video views each month. The company is headquartered in London and New York, and operates in dozens of markets worldwide.

We are looking for a Senior Technical Business Analyst to own the analysis and technical specification of Content Solutions for a global business.  You will have extensive Business Analysis experience with proven ability to specify and prioritise end-to-end requirements and work with relevant stakeholders (Product, Architecture, Technical Leads, Design).

In this role, you will own the definition and implementation of transformative content workflow solutions for a global business. You will have deep expertise in content technologies including Digital & Media Asset Management, Content Planning, Content Enrichment & Tagging, Content sharing and collaboration, and rights clearance and rights management.

You will be able to work independently to own the definition and delivery of user requirements end-to-end. You will need a deep understanding of media domain applications, data models and services, specifically in the Content and Rights domains.

Main responsibilities

• Work with business and SME experts to elicit and validate technical and non-technical requirements for end to end Content and Rights solutions.
• Have strategic mindset that allows us to recommend and deliver technical solutions that align to the overall company strategy and best in class Content & Rights operations with enabling technology

• Support definition of the systems design, including wireframes, business rules, data migration rules and other detailed deliverables
• Perform system analysis of current and future state software applications and services and create associated technical system documentation, including but not limited to Use Case, Sequence, Dataflow, Class and State Diagrams using standard notification – BPMN, UML, OMG standards.
• Work with business stakeholders, Solution/Enterprise Architects and Technology teams  to assess technical selection of, feasibility of, implementation of and training for target state solutions including  functionality, effectiveness, reliability, performance, usage, maintainability and cost of ownership.
• Identification and gap analysis of existing systems and map and document proposed migration plan to target Platforms

Skills:

• Professional Qualifications / Certified Business Analyst or equivalent experience
• At least 10 years of proven experience in a Technical or Systems Business Analyst role
• Experience with Content, Rights, Video Production and Media companies as a must
• Understanding of gathering business requirements for reporting and data needs, and translating them into MoSoW technical functional and non-functional specifications
• Educated to degree level or has relevant experience
• Extensive experience working in Agile environments
• Experienced using standard notification protocols – BPMN, OMG, UML
• Experience in Jira/Confluence
• Knowledge of APIs, JSON, React/Node, HTML, SQL and XML desirable
• Proactive in seeking information, challenging norms and driving efficiency
• You are self-driven, motivated, and ability to drive objectives forward and see projects and initiatives through to completion
• You have excellent written and verbal English communication skills