Business Analyst

Version 1 has celebrated 30 years in business and continues to be trusted by global brands to deliver technology and transformation solutions that drive customer success. Our deep expertise enables our customers to navigate the rapidly evolving technology landscape. We foster strong partnerships with global technology leaders including Microsoft, AWS, Oracle, Red Hat, OutSystems, Snowflake, ensuring that our customers are provided with the highest quality solutions and services.

We’re an award-winning employer reflecting how our employees are at the very heart of what we do:

• UK & Ireland's premier AWS, Microsoft & Oracle partner
• 3300+ strong, €350/£300m revenue business
• 10+ years as a Great Place to Work in Ireland & UK
• Best Workplace for Women in the UK & Ireland by GPTW
• Best Workplace for Wellbeing in the UK by GPTW

We’re a core values driven company, we hire people who share our values, and we reward those who display and foster them, it’s deeply embedded within our DNA. Invest in us and we’ll invest in you!.

Our clients ask us to make sense of complex, ambiguous problem spaces across digital transformation work - covering products, platforms, processes, and data.

What you’ll be doing

• Understanding business needs: Work with stakeholders to understand problems, objectives, current processes, pain points and desired outcomes.
• Gathering and analysing requirements: Use workshops, interviews, document analysis and other BA techniques to gather, validate and prioritise business and user requirements.
• Mapping processes: Document current and future-state processes, identifying opportunities for improvement and areas where change is required.
• Translating needs into requirements: Create clear requirements, user stories and acceptance criteria that enable delivery teams to understand what needs to be built or changed.
• Supporting stakeholder engagement: Build effective relationships with stakeholders, communicate requirements clearly and help maintain alignment throughout delivery.
• Working within multidisciplinary teams: Collaborate closely with Product, Delivery, Design, Engineering and Testing colleagues to ensure requirements are understood and solutions meet the identified need.
• Supporting delivery: Refine requirements, clarify questions, manage changes and help resolve issues or dependencies as work progresses.
• Supporting testing and UAT: Help define acceptance criteria, support User Acceptance Testing and confirm that delivered solutions meet agreed business requirements.
• Contributing to continuous improvement: Share learning, contribute to the BA community and continue developing your Business Analysis and consulting skills.

You’re a Business Analyst who is curious, structured and collaborative. You’re comfortable asking questions, working with stakeholders and turning complex information into clear requirements and practical next steps.

• Analytical: You can break down problems, identify gaps and dependencies, and organise information clearly.
• Customer and outcome focused: You consider both user and business needs when helping shape solutions.
• Clear communicator: You can explain requirements and complex information in a straightforward way to both technical and non-technical audiences.
• Collaborative: You’re comfortable working with stakeholders, Product Managers, Delivery Managers, Designers, Developers, Testers and other specialists.
• Delivery focused: You understand how Business Analysis supports delivery and can adapt your approach as requirements and priorities evolve.
• Experienced in Agile delivery: You have worked within or alongside Agile delivery teams and understand how analysis fits across discovery, design, development and testing.
• Comfortable with core BA techniques: You have experience gathering and documenting requirements, writing user stories and acceptance criteria, mapping processes, facilitating workshops and supporting testing.
• Eager to develop: You’re open to feedback, keen to build your consulting skills and interested in developing your Business Analysis capability through different clients and projects

At Version 1, we believe in providing our employees with a comprehensive benefits package that prioritises their wellbeing, professional growth, and financial stability.

• Share in our success with our Quarterly Performance-Related Profit Share Scheme, where employees collectively benefit from a share of our company's profits
• Strong Career Progression & mentorship coaching through our Strength in Balance & Leadership schemes with a dedicated quarterly Pathways Career Development programme
• Flexible/remote working, Version 1 is tremendously understanding of life events and people’s individual circumstances and offer flexibility to help achieve a healthy work life balance
• Financial Wellbeing initiatives including; Version 1 Pension with a 5% employee-matched contribution, Private Healthcare Cover, Life Assurance, Financial advice and an Employee Discount scheme
• Employee Wellbeing schemes including Gym Discounts, Bike to Work, Fitness classes, Mindfulness Workshops, Employee Assistance Programme and much more.
• 24 days holiday allowance plus Public Holidays, enhanced maternity/paternity leave, marriage/civil partnership leave and special leave policies
• Educational assistance, incentivised certifications, and accreditations, including AWS, Microsoft, Oracle, and Red Hat
• Reward schemes including Version 1’s Annual Excellence Awards & quarterly Star Awards.
• Environment, Social and Community First initiatives allow you to get involved in local fundraising and development opportunities as part of fostering our diversity, inclusion and belonging schemes.

And many more exciting benefits… drop us a note to find out more.

Version 1 is an equal opportunities employer

We are committed to building a diverse, inclusive and respectful workplace where everyone feels valued and able to thrive. We welcome applications from people of all backgrounds, identities and lived experiences, and we value the different perspectives people bring including those shaped by disability and neurodiversity.

We want every candidate to have a positive and accessible recruitment experience. If you need reasonable adjustments at any stage of the process, please contact Ashley.Smith@version1.com at Version 1. We will consider all requests carefully, respectfully and confidentially.

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