Role type: Contract 3 months with potential to extend

Status: Outside IR35

Location: Remote from UK

Preferred start date: ASAP

LIFE AS A SATALIAN

As an organisation, we push the boundaries of data science, optimisation and artificial intelligence to solve the most complex problems in the industry. Satalia, a Wunderman Thompson Company, is a community of individuals devoted to working on diverse and challenging projects, allowing you to flex your technical skills whilst working with a tight-knit team of high performing colleagues.

Led by our founder and WPP Chief AI Officer Daniel Hulme, Satalia’s ambition is to become a decentralised organisation of the future. Today, this involves developing tools and processes to liberate and automate manual repetitive tasks, with a focus on freedom, transparency and trust. At the core of our thinking is an approach to wellbeing and inclusivity. We unpack human behaviour and unpick prejudice to ensure a safe and inviting environment. We offer truly flexible working and allow our employees to find the working practice that makes them most productive. At Satalia, your opinion matters and your achievements are celebrated.

THE ROLE

We are looking for a detail-oriented and experienced Technical Business Analyst to join our dynamic Product Team. In this role, you will be at the heart of our innovation hub bridging the gap between Product Managers and Technical Teams. You will be defining business requirements and identifying technical solutions to complex problems, ensuring our Brains deliver end-user satisfaction, usability, and extensibility.

You will be working with different stakeholders to understand their needs and expectations, facilitating communication and understanding between different teams and collaborating closely with the product managers to align priorities and user stories. Your work will be instrumental in driving the success of our innovative products.

Please note that this is a highly technical role who will suit someone with good experience in building API products or a strong background in Data Science, Engineering or Data Analytics. 

YOUR RESPONSIBILITIES 

• Collaborate with the product manager to understand the product roadmap, product priorities and take product features through the development cycle
• Gather and document requirements and translate them into clear user stories and acceptance criteria that can be used and interpreted by both business and technical users.
• Identify and recommend options for potential solutions and assess them for both technical and business suitability
• Create logical and innovative solutions to problems
• Develop detailed functional specifications, user stories, and process flows to guide development teams.
• Work closely with engineering and data science teams to ensure technical solutions align with business goals and requirements.
• Maintain product documentation on Jira
• Work with a scrum / delivery team through to deployment to production
• Provide estimates for future analysis work
• Work with developers and a variety of users to ensure all solutions deliver customer satisfaction
• Assist in developing test plans and test cases to ensure that developed features are aligned to requirements
• Plan and work flexibly to meet deadlines
• Keep up to date with technical and industry sector advances
• Manage relationships both internally and externally

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS/SKILLS

• You will have proven experience working as a Business Analyst within a product development environment. Ideally with a focus on API product development and/or data architecture and/or data science.
• Knowledge of API technologies is beneficial, such as REST, SOAP, JSON
• Experience of managing complex evolving requirements
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to effectively collaborate with cross-functional teams
• Able to run workshops with key stakeholders
• You will have a user-first mindset
• Experience of Agile software delivery
• Experience in data mapping and data flow
• Production of high quality user stories and acceptance criteria
• Analysis and design of systems
• Ability to work on your own initiative to an agreed action plan
• Strong problem solving, time management and organisational skills
• Energetic, enthusiastic with strong attention to detail

If you know some of this, even better:

• Scrum master experience

Satalia is home to some of the brightest minds in AI and if you’re looking to join a company who not only values autonomy and freedom, but embraces a culture of inclusion and warmth, we’d love to hear from you.

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Good luck!