Business Analyst - Data

Experienced Mid Level Business Analyst - Data

We are News UK Technology: using technology to innovate and lead the global conversation on the future of media and storytelling. We keep people at the heart of our business through value-driven and inclusive practices enabling our staff to grow and thrive. As such, we are proud members of Tech Talent Charter UK with 34% of our Tech roles filled by gender minorities. News UK Tech is an award-winning team, winning Team of the Year at the UK Business and Innovation Awards, 2023.

News UK is embarking on a new chapter of data growth. With the introduction of the company’s AI strategy and the growing need to support brands in achieving data-powered product growth, the News UK’s Data team needs to ensure it is structured to respond effectively.

The Data Technology team operates across London, Sofia and Bangalore, developing data platforms, front-end data products and predictive models. We specialise in capturing and utilising data to drive growth and revenue. Our work supports newsroom editors, marketing, advertising and product teams through creative technical solutions that underpin our global news delivery.

We are seeking an experienced (mid-level) Business Analyst to join the team.

Your Role: Your primary focus will be working on our 1st party data warehouse and data sources, a key component of our data landscape. You may also need to support other workstreams which span AI and consumer facing data products, data collection, and data governance.

You will be central to understanding and bringing clarity to requirements from our diverse range of stakeholders, and supporting their successful delivery using our suite of modern technologies, including BigQuery and Google Cloud Platform. Working closely with our technical teams, product managers and stakeholders, you will build a shared understanding of requirements and their wider context, ensure that there is fluent communication to help development to progress smoothly, and maintain strong relationships between all throughout. You will make sure that backlogs are high quality and reflect business value. You will carry out in-depth analysis on prioritised initiatives so that they can be broken down into clear epics and stories for prioritisation. And once work is delivered you will help the team to present it and highlight its value to both business and technology stakeholders.

Day to day you will:

• Working with your squad(s) and stakeholders, elicit, record, manage and refine requirements for implementation.
• Using BA techniques, data and other analytical approaches, assess the feasibility and viability of requirements and overall solutions.
• Working with your squad(s) and stakeholders throughout implementation, ensure that all involved remain aligned on scope, requirements and progress, and resolve any issues around this as they arise.
• Build and maintain fluent, collaborative relationships with your squad(s), stakeholders, and others in the Data team.
• Play an active role in our BA discipline (both in the data team and the wider NUK organisation)

What we’re looking for from you:

Business Analysis

• Experience of business analysis within Agile environments.
• Experience of business analysis within digital data environments such as reporting and data visualisation, data-driven applications, or AI/data science.
• Can elicit, analyse and manage requirements with their wider commercial context using techniques appropriate to the task and stakeholders.
• Can clearly document requirements, analysis and solutions for technical, architectural and business stakeholders.
• Can fluently facilitate conversations between technical and business stakeholders to outline potential solutions and prioritise options.
• Can oversee and mentor more junior colleagues.
• Can contribute to developing the BA discipline and best practice within the Data team and the wider News UK BA Community.

Data Technologies

• Experience of any of analytics, data-driven applications, AI/data science, or recommendation/personalisation data products.
• Experience of cloud based data warehouses and architectures e.g. GCP.
• A solid understanding of data warehousing: data flows, ETL, data marts, dimensional modelling, data quality/data accuracy, data operation.
• Strong SQL skills and a good understanding of how to interrogate diverse data sources.
• Can analyse and interpret data to understand cost-benefit and feasibility, validate requirements and support prioritisation.

Collaboration and Communication

• Can build, maintain and manage excellent relationships with business and technology stakeholders.
• Can fluently promote collaborative ways of working between business and technology stakeholders.
• Can work closely and collaboratively with product and project managers.
• Can clearly present technical and non-technical material to business and technology audiences.
• Can confidently represent technology teams to the wider organisation for scoping and prioritisation discussions.

Agile Delivery

• Experience of the technology delivery lifecycle from inception through development to release and maintenance.
• Experience of delivery in agile/iterative environments such as SCRUM or Kanban, including MVP and prototyping.
• Can independently lead delivery of projects.
• Can work closely with and support technical teams through development, whether local or remote.
• Can manage own and team’s work through evolving requirements and priorities by keeping a focus on wider business requirements.
• Can support the delivery of multiple initiatives by understanding the purpose and value of their delivery increments.

If you think you have what it takes but don’t tick every requirement on the list, please do apply. We recognise that considering someone’s potential as well as their experience is a great way to hire. We want to hear from people who have a passion to learn and develop.

We are News UK: One of the leading media businesses in the UK and Ireland. Our newsbrands include The Times, The Sunday Times, The Sun, The Sun on Sunday and The TLS. Our national broadcast brands include talkSPORT, Times Radio, TalkTV and Virgin Radio UK, and we have market-leading local radio stations across Ireland. Our world-famous brands provide news, analysis, opinion and entertainment to almost 40 million people each month. Spanning print and pixel, audio and video, events and experiences, our multiplatform brands are home to a plurality of opinion, representing the diverse communities we serve. News UK is wholly owned by News Corp.

Life at News: Driven by passion, guided by principles and acting with purpose. We represent, reflect and reach the nation, telling the stories that matter. We inform our audiences so that they can make decisions based on trusted information.

To do this, we believe our employees must represent different backgrounds, perspectives and experiences. We strive to maximise and encourage every individual’s potential and ensure everyone feels valued. We support this through our Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Strategy, which focuses on three main priorities - attracting talent from a wider, more representative pool, developing equity programmes to drive better representation in our leadership, and ensuring diversity and inclusivity in our workforce as well as the journalism and content we produce. We also currently have 12 employee led networks and groups that support our strategy and connect like minded employees socially.

Benefits:

Some of our benefits include:

• Maternity leave up to 18 weeks full basic salary & paternity leave up to 2 weeks
• Wide range of training available, plus full LinkedIn Learning access
• Private medical insurance including coverage for pre-existing conditions
• Discounted gym memberships, free ClassPass at Home, weekly virtual yoga classes
• ‘Bikes for Work’ and ‘Electric Car’ scheme
• Up to 60% discount on Harper Collins books
• Access to exclusive events and competitions with exciting brands such as talkSPORT, Virgin Radio UK & The Times. Weekly virtual panel chats with top journalists and celebrities
• Access to wellbeing benefits such as EAP, physio/massage and counselling
• A generous pension scheme with employer contributions of up to 5%
• 25 days holiday, plus bank holidays and up to 4 volunteering days per year
• Thriving employee networks supporting colleagues to embed and grow, including women in technology, parenting, wellbeing, GenZ, NewsIsOut and faith-oriented groups.

We want to ensure that everyone we meet has the opportunity to perform to their best when applying for a role. Please let us know, at any stage, whether you require any reasonable adjustments during the recruitment process, and we will do our best to accommodate.