- Location
- Oxford, England, United Kingdom · published
- Type
- Full-time
- Department
- Operations
- Source
- Workable
Description
Join us at EIT:
At the Ellison Institute of Technology (EIT), we’re on a mission to translate scientific discovery into real world impact. We bring together visionary scientists, technologists, engineers, researchers, educators and innovators to tackle humanity’s greatest challenges in four transformative areas:
- Health, Medical Science & Generative Biology
- Food Security & Sustainable Agriculture
- Climate Change & Managing CO₂
- Artificial Intelligence & Robotics
This is ambitious work - work that demands curiosity, courage, and a relentless drive to make a difference. At EIT, you’ll join a community built on excellence, innovation, tenacity, trust, and collaboration, where bold ideas become real-world breakthroughs. Together, we push boundaries, embrace complexity, and create solutions to scale ideas from lab to society. Explore more at www.eit.org.
Your Role:
At EIT we are seeking an experienced and detail orientated Business Analyst to bridge business needs and technology delivery. The successful candidate will work closely with stakeholders, business teams, development teams, and Technical Leads to define requirements, prioritise delivery, and ensure business value is realised.
The ideal candidate will have extensive experience delivering projects using Agile, Hybrid, and Waterfall methodologies, with strong stakeholder management skills and hands-on experience using Jira for backlog management, requirements tracking, and reporting.
Your Responsibilities:
Business Analysis
- Elicit, analyse, document, and validate business requirements.
- Facilitate workshops, interviews, and discovery sessions with stakeholders.
- Analyse current and future state processes and identify improvement opportunities.
- Support business process re-engineering initiatives.
- Ensure solutions meet business requirements and strategic objectives.
- Own and manage product backlogs.
- Work closely with the Business Stakeholders to prioritise features, user stories, and enhancements based on business value.
- Work closely with development teams to clarify requirements and acceptance criteria.
- Operate effectively within Agile, Hybrid, and Waterfall delivery environments.
- Collaborate with Delivery Leads to manage scope, risks, dependencies, and change requests.
- Ensure traceability from business requirements through to solution delivery and testing.
- Support UAT planning, execution, and sign-off.
Stakeholder Management
- Build strong relationships across business and technology functions.
- Communicate effectively with stakeholders at all levels, including senior leadership.
Jira & Delivery Tooling
- Create and maintain Epics, Features, Stories, Tasks, and Defects within Jira.
- Manage and prioritise product backlogs using Jira.
- Work with Confluence to document project artefacts.