Business Unit / Team: Chief Operating Office
Salary range: £52,000 -£74,000 per annum DOE + red-hot benefits
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Our Team
We’re looking for a Business Design Lead who is highly motivated and is actively looking for their next permanent career challenge. That someone will love the analytical and collaborative side of being a technologist but also be someone who will ensure that the customer experience is always at the heart of it.
You'll work closely with your Chapter Lead to support and develop the Business Analysis Chapter, co-ordinate with Product Owners and Squads across the department to ensure we are meeting their needs and help shape best practices for training & development of the Chapter. You’ll support squads with their Business Analysis needs and will support the Chapter Lead with recruitment and onboarding activities.
What you’ll be doing
• progress and deliver business analysis activities to ensure the business have all the information they need to keep things moving
• Review output of the Business Analysis chapter members and coach on best practices
• Work as part of multi-disciplinary Squads delivering work in Sprints
• Contribute to standard Agile planning ceremonies (sprint planning, sprint retrospective) as well as Daily Stand Ups
• Support Scrum Masters, Product Owners & Programme Managers in managing Product Backlogs, ensuring key metrics are understood and followed by the team
• Be the voice of the business and end user and help your team develop and test software for one of our key digital channels
We need you to have
• A proven track record in business analysis within an agile digital environment
• Proven capability in gathering and documenting complex requirements, user stories and acceptance criteria, preferably in Gherkin format
• Experience in coaching and development of junior team members
• A collaborative attitude and experience of helping multi-disciplinary teams to deliver user-focused digital products and services
• First class inter-personal skills, coupled with strong influencing abilities and a can-do attitude to keep focussed on delivering the right business outcome
• Be a self-starter, well organised and able to work independently on complex tasks
It’s a bonus if you have but not essential
• Experience of large-scale transformation programmes in Financial Services/Banking institutions
• Experience of the full Software Development Life Cycle, including Business Readiness activities
• Experience of working to both Waterfall & Agile methodologies
Red Hot Rewards
• Generous holidays - 38.5 days annual leave (including bank holidays and prorated if part-time) plus the option to buy more
• Up to five extra paid well-being days per year
• 20 weeks paid, gender-neutral family leave (52 weeks in total) for expectant parents and those looking to adopt
• Market-leading pension
• Free private medical cover, income protection and life assurance
• Flexible benefits include Cycle to Work, wellness and health assessments, and critical illness
• Ability to work anywhere in the UK (where the role allows)
And there's no waiting around, you'll enjoy these benefits from day one.
Feeling insatiably curious about this role? Apply as soon as you can. If we’re lucky to receive a lot of interest, we may close the advert early and would hate you to miss out.
We're all about helping you Live a Life More Virgin, so happy to talk flexible working with you.
Say hello to Virgin Money
We’re making great strides towards achieving our ambition of becoming the UK’s best digital bank. As a full-service digital bank with a heritage stretching back over 180 years, we`re a workforce to be reckoned with. We're putting the full power of our experience behind disruptive ideas that reinvent the role a bank plays in people's lives. We strive to create positive experiences for our millions of customers and our purpose, ‘Making You Happier About Money’, underpins everything we do. We believe in doing banking differently, innovating and working together to make a real difference. Join us and Live a Life More Virgin that empowers you with choice and flexibility in how you work.
Be yourself at Virgin Money
Our purpose is to make people happier about money, this means seeing and feeling the world as our customers do by creating a workforce that reflects the rich diversity of our customers and communities. We’re committed to creating an inclusive culture where colleagues feel safe and inspired to contribute, speak up and be heard.
As a Disability Confident Leader, we're committed to removing any obstacles to inclusion. If you need any reasonable adjustments or support making your application, contact our Talent Acquisition team careers@virginmoney.com
Now the legal bit
Living A Life More Virgin allows our colleagues to be based anywhere in the UK (if the role allows it), but we'll need you to confirm you have the right to work in the UK.
If you're successful in securing a role with us, there are some checks you need to complete before starting. These include credit and criminal record checks and three years' worth of satisfactory references. If the role is part of the Senior Manager Regime and Certification Regime, it requires enhanced pre-employment checks – we'll ask for six years of regulatory references, and once in the role, you'll be subject to periodic employment checks.
