Application Analyst (Hybrid Working)

Our FTSE 100 client is seeking an Application Analyst to join their highly successful and reputable company based in Milton Keynes.

This is an exciting opportunity for a curious, detail oriented and customer focused individual to be part of a team who is genuinely enthusiastic about providing a high-quality experience to all users.

Salary: £35,000 – £45,000 per annum, DOE

Hours: 37.5 hours per week – Monday to Friday, 9am – 5.30pm

Hybrid working: 3 days working from home and 2 days in the office

**Fantastic benefits package**

The role:

You will be responsible for identifying and understanding where your technology delivery capabilities can help solve challenges and leverage opportunities
Attending meetings with the Product Owner, Software Engineers and Quality Assurance Engineers in your product team to discuss a business challenge and how you will work together to solve it.
Regularly sharing your progress with the rest of your product team and the eventual end users to get constant feedback on the solution that you are delivering
Configuring the Accounting and Billing systems to support the rollout of a new product or pricing model
Using the UiPath Robotic Process Automation platform to automate manual tasks around the organization
Building a low-code business process application to manage an internal process
Writing scripts to modify data within the business applications to support the rollout of a new product or pricing model
Assisting the team with testing work developed by the Software Engineers in your team to meet a sprint deadline
Using SQL to extract some data from the databases to make an evidenced-based decision on pro’s and con’s of different solution designs.
The person:

Intermediate to advanced skills in tools such as Microsoft Excel or Access
Experience learning how a software platform works and using that knowledge to deliver change
A working level of understanding of SQL
A track record of learning new technologies
Confidence manipulating and extracting insight from large datasets

The following would be an advantage:

Has a history of improving internal processes
Can build robots using a tool such as UiPath, Automation Anywhere or Blue Prism
Has an understanding of a scripting language such as Javascript or Groovy
Has experience of using collaborations tools such as Confluence and JIRA or similar
Has previously worked in an Agile or Scrum team
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