Business Analyst - GIS OAM Programme

Description

Adecco are pleased to be recruiting for a Business Analyst to join Southern Water on their GIS OAM Programme (MapInfo Workstream).

Job Title: Business Analyst - GIS OAM Programme (MapInfo Workstream)

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: ASAP

Overview:

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.Essential Skills & Experience:

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. Desirable:

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.

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