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Working Pattern - Hybrid – 2 days per week in any of the Vitality offices. Full time, 35 hours per week.
We are happy to discuss flexible working!
What this role is all about:
The Requirements Engineer works to understand and secure business requirements in relation to a business and system change initiative, learning and then utilising a variety of tools, techniques, and expertise.
You will be highly familiar with agile approach for business analysis and requirements engineering, to define, improve, and trace business process, functional and non-functional requirements through the end-to-end software delivery lifecycle.
You will work closely with your team, delivery manager, SCRUM master and associated Product Owners, Business SMEs, and Functional Specialists to ensure no details are missed.
Key Actions
Stakeholder Management
Identify a set of stakeholders that need to be involved in creating and validating the requirements. Elicit the requirements from the business and technical owners, as well as experienced members of the development team (Software Engineering Manager, Architect, Senior RE). Act as a consultant to the client on the application. Participate in client planning forums and advise on solutions. Challenge the business in their thinking, especially to understand the intent of the business requirement.
Scope definition
Define the scope of the requirements to be managed. Apply knowledge of the system, interfaces, and dependencies to highlight integration aspects that must be considered. Document the scope of the requirements using context models, domain models or use case diagrams.
Customer and Business Processes
Document as-is and to-be process flows in order to investigate, analyse and understand the functionality of existing system flows in relation to their business processes. Align business processes to business capabilities.
User Stories
Understand and document requirements. If needed, facilitate activities like interviews or JAD sessions to expand the understanding of the business requirements. If required, analyse data to gather information. Following up with stakeholders to clear up ambiguity and possible misunderstanding. Documenting the requirements in a User Story format. Review the User Stories with the stakeholders, using appropriate formats such as presentations and walk-through discussion Validate with the stakeholders and obtain sign-off.
Functional SME
Willingness to learn and understand one or more applications and understand the services used and business capabilities provided by the application. Awareness of the anomalies or roadblocks that can affect the application, or how the application can support any potential business problem.
Engineering and Scrum Support
Acceptance criteria must enable unit testing and the development of test plans. Provide support to Software Engineers, walk them through the user stories you have documented and answer their queries, including positive and negative scenario outcomes. Work closely with Test Engineers to ensure understanding for the creation of test cases and outcomes, acceptance criteria, triage issues and prioritise defects. Providing the scrum team with estimates of the duration of tasks.
Essential Skills needed to fulfil this role:
- Secondary qualification or equivalent experience
- Knowledge of ITIL, SOP's, Raci, Visio & Lucid
- Practical and applied experience of Agile Methodology for Software Engineering
- Experience working with stakeholders at all levels within an organisation.
- Has a close link to wider industry practices & the Business Analyst profession
- Experience producing a range of analysis artefacts.
- Excellent communication skills both written and verbal.
- Ability to multitask in an effective and organised manner.
- Good understanding of business analysis approaches and methodologies
So, what’s in it for you?
- Bonus Schemes – A bonus that regularly rewards you for your performance
- A pension of up to 12%– We will match your contributions up to 6% of your salary
- Our award-winning Vitality health insurance – With its own set of rewards and benefits
- Life Assurance – Four times annual salary
These are just some of the many perks that we offer! To view the extensive range of benefits we offer, please visit our careers page. Fantastic Benefits. Exciting rewards. Great career opportunities!
If you are successful in your application and join us at Vitality, this is our promise to you, we will:
- Help you to be the healthiest you’ve ever been.
- Create an environment that embraces you as you are and enables you to be your best self.
- Give you flexibility on how, where and when you work.
- Help you advance your career by playing you to your strengths.
- Give you a voice to help our business grow and make Vitality a great place to be.
- Give you the space to try, fail and learn.
- Provide a healthy balance of challenge and support.
- Recognise and reward you with a competitive salary and amazing benefits.
- Be there for you when you need us.
- Provide opportunities for you to be a force for good in society.
We commit to all these things because we want you to feel that you belong, and are supported to be happy and healthy.