Digital Solution Design Analyst - Banking - Edinburgh - 12 Months - £4

DIGITAL SOLUTION DESIGN ANALYST - BANKING - EDINBURGH - 12 MONTHS - £400/DAY

The solution design analysts will work within the design team for a business segment/investment pillar eg products; mandatory supporting the delivery of the end to end design for an initiative required to realise the strategic objectives or mandatory obligations.

ESSENTIAL EXPERIENCE

- Previous experience of working within banking
- Knowledge of design methodology - highly desirable
- An ability to understand business processes and systems functionality to design improved business solutions ( as - is vs to - be processes)
- Familiarity with Agile Development methodology eg SCRUM; Sprints; Planning Poker
- Digital background

WHAT WILL BE THE CORE DUTIES OF THE ROLE?

Potential candidates should be able to demonstrate experience/evidence of:

- Designing/supporting customer centric solutions in a banking environment, ensuring the design blueprint aligns to customer, business and staff outcomes
- Defining project objectives, scope and overall approach to requirements analysis and solution design
- Defining and documenting detailed business target operating models for business functions
- An ability to understand business processes and systems functionality to design improved business solutions ( as - is vs to - be processes)
- Documenting and analysing organisation design from a people perspective, articulating what needs to change
- Defining business requirements in a banking context together with experience of user experience driven approaches when gathering requirements and running workshops
- Working collaboratively with business and technical architecture teams to shape and document customer journeys; customer, business and staff outcomes
- Use concepts such as user journeys, stories and epics to capture and model requirements
- Developing business cases
- Ability to interpret financial data using spread sheets
- Project delivery skills in design, focusing on interfacing into delivery teams; understanding testing requirements etc.
- Strong presentation skills - able to present complex ideas in a simple way to a diverse range of stakeholders
- Strong communication skills - able to adapt style and content appropriately for the audience
- Excellent teamwork skills with the ability to work with cross-site teams
- Experience of MS Office (Excel, PowerPoint, Word, Access), MS Project and PlanView
- Database management and utilisation to support analysis
- An agile mind-set and philosophy
- Exposure to or direct involvement of agile development environments, including formulation of user stories and development sprints
- Familiarity with Agile Development methodology eg SCRUM; Sprints; Planning Poker
- Specific exposure to and experience of mobile and digital projects and services
- Mobile/digital awareness is key together with a first adopter mind-set ie they are willing to try new products and services and believe technology can be an enabler; they run their lives digitally eg their preferred way to shop online/via their mobile