Business Analyst/ Product Owner

Essential Skills & Experience

• 12–15 years of Business Analysis experience, ideally in energy, utilities, asset management or complex engineering environments.
• Strong understanding of Business Analysis services
• Experience working on data-heavy products, engineering platforms, digital twins, analytics products or operational decision-support tools.
• Strong Agile delivery experience, including epics, user stories, acceptance criteria, refinement and backlog management.
• Excellent process mapping skills using tools such as Visio, or similar.
• Strong data analysis mindset, with ability to define KPIs, reporting needs, business rules and decision criteria.
• Experience working with cross-functional teams including Product Owners, architects, engineers, developers, testers and data teams.
• Ability to create executive-ready documentation, options papers, decision packs and product artefacts.
• Strong stakeholder management and communication skills.
• Confident facilitator who can lead workshops and bring structure to ambiguity.

Desirable Skills

• Knowledge of UK energy regulation, Ofgem, RIIO frameworks or transmission business processes.
• Experience with Jira, Confluence, SQL or data visualisation tools.
• Understanding of data governance, data lineage, master data, integration and API-based products.

Key Attributes

• Curious and structured thinker.
• Comfortable working with ambiguity.
• Able to challenge respectfully and constructively.
• Data-led and evidence-based.
• Strong attention to detail without losing sight of the bigger picture.
• Excellent storyteller who can simplify complex engineering and digital topics.
• Outcome-focused rather than task-focused.
• Proactive, self-directed and able to lead analysis independently.