Our client based in Reading town centre is a major outsourcing partner for the public sector. They are looking for a Lead Web Analyst to deputise for the Business Architecture Stream Lead and coordinate all analysis activity for the programme and line managing the business architecture team.

Key duties and responsibilities:

• Working with the senior management team at project board level to share achievements, issues, risks and assumptions from the business architecture team.
• Overseeing and co-ordinating all analysis activity within the programme including responsibility for the production of the required deliverables to deadline.
• Mentoring web/business analysts ensuring that they follow best practice in web analysis and specification and develop their skill sets.
• Understanding regulatory business requirements relating to the web such as legal implications (Data Protection Act, accessibility legislation etc), translating these into functional/non-functional requirements as appropriate.
• Researching new developments in the open source web community and evaluating any potential contribution to the project.
• Creating new process documentation as a basis for designing and building new website features or functions. Ensuring existing process documentation is a true reflection of the current system state.
• Assisting in the production of project business cases.
• Such other duties as may be reasonably considered to be within the grade and remit of the post of deputy.

Essential

• 10 years experience in web-based IT environment working as either a business analyst or other similar role (preferably in pre-sales or professional services).
• Experience of several enterprise scale website implementations in a role leading an analysis team.
• Experience of the entire project lifecycle on several enterprise scale website projects including deployment and operational support.
• Experience managing multiple business stakeholders with conflicting objectives.
• Working in a customer-focused environment where the needs of a variety of service users have to be prioritised and delivered.
• Proven track record in working to challenging timescales with staff at all levels.
• Educated to degree level (or equivalent), technical degree, minimum 2.1.
• Knowledge of Agile and Waterfall development methodologies.
• Good practical knowledge of best practice analysis techniques.
• Knowledge of current best practice principles in website functional design.
• Excellent presentation, verbal, written and interpersonal skills.
• Office tools: Visio, Excel, Word, Powerpoint, Outlook.
• BA Tools: requirements management tool e.g. calibre, process definition tool e.g. casewise, UML.
• Technologies: Drupal or other CMS

Desirable

• IT-related qualification in business analysis and/or formal documentation methods.
• VCS e.g. svn.
• Working knowledge of MySQL and PHP.
• LAMP stack experience.
• Exposure to central or local government clients.
• Knowledge of the UK educational system
• Experience working for a top 5 professional services supplier.
• Experience working with an outsourced development team.