Business Analyst - GIS OAM Programme
- Brighton
- Temporary
- Full-time
Location: Hybrid (Remote with occasional Falmer/Durrington Visits)
Contract Duration: 6 months (initially with potential for extension)
IR35 Status: Inside IR35
Day Rate: £500
Start Date: ASAPOverview:
Southern Water's GIS OAM Programme is a major enterprise initiative to decommission the legacy GIS estate and migrate all spatial tools, data assets, and business functionality into a modern ESRI based enterprise GIS platform.We are seeking an experienced Business Analyst to lead the discovery, analysis, and design activities for the MapInfo Workstream - focused on understanding and replacing a wide array of critical corporate tooling and corporate datasets.This is a complex workstream involving legacy integrations, curated datasets, and rule-based GIS tools used across operations, asset management and engineering.Key Responsibilities:
- Lead business engagement for the MapInfo Workstream, identifying how legacy spatial tools are currently used and what outcomes they support.
- Elicit, define, and document detailed business and functional requirements, including corporate tooling and datasets and custom built into legacy tools.
- Capture and model business processes, including AS-IS and TO-BE states to support enterprise holistic design.
- Facilitate workshops and interviews with SMEs across multiple departments.
- Collaborate with Architects, Other Analysts, Project Managers, Workstream Leads and GIS Developers to ensure requirements are translated accurately into ESRI tools and enterprise GIS datasets.
- Analyse and document dependencies between MapInfo tools and other upstream/downstream systems, ensuring nothing is missed in the replacement design.
- Support UAT and defect triage during the testing phases so that solutions meet business expectations.
- Fully defined, prioritised requirements backlog for MapInfo workstream.
- Traceable link between requirements, test cases, and system design decisions.
- Recommendations for future state function capability to replace legacy systems effectively.
- Adherence to Business Analyst Governance Standards and Programme Governance Standards.
- Proven experience as a Business Analyst.
- Demonstratable exposure to enterprise programmes.
- Ability to work independently and manage priorities in a delivery focused environment.
- Skilled in producing clear documentation and BA artefacts including process maps, use cases and user stories.
- Strong stakeholder engagement and workshop facilitation skills.
- Experience working within structured programme environments with Agile and Waterfall elements.
- Experience working with or around ESRI ArcGIS Enterprise platforms.
- Utilities or regulated industry experience, preferably in the wastewater domain.
- Familiarity with GIS.
- Knowledge of Southern Water systems or similar water utilities landscape.