Data Business Analyst

The Company 

RightShip is the world's biggest third party maritime due diligence organization, providing expertise in global safety, sustainability and social responsibility best practices. 

We bring together years of industry expertise with the output from analytics and large data sets to provide our safety and environmental scoring systems, recommendations and consultancy services. 

Using leading data and technology, we aim to set new benchmarks in environmental protection. We support global initiatives and action influencing practical and impactful change, enabling "win-win" for business and the environment. 

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What we offer 

We offer a place where you know you are contributing to an organization who are constantly working to ensure ships are safe as possible so that crew and cargo are protected. We are passionate about maritime efficiency, safety and sustainability practices. 

We offer generous rewards. Our base salary is competitive, we support employee wellbeing and provide our employees with a Healthy Living Allowance and our annual incentive scheme is awesome. We have some great talent who are happy to share their experience and skills to help you on your way and we are committed to professional development to make sure your career keeps growing while you're working with us.

What makes RightShip a great place to work at:

RightShip is an equal opportunity employer, and we champion diversity. Our teams are composed of individuals from different geographies, cultures, religions, ethnicities, races, genders, sexual orientations, abilities, and generations. We believe that a diversity of experiences makes us stronger—as individuals, as communities and as an organization.

Don't meet every single requirement of this role? Still apply Research tells us that that women and underrepresented groups are less likely to apply unless they meet every single requirement.  At RightShip we believe that the right hire is someone who makes an addition to our culture, rather than someone who fits in and conforms to our status quo. We want to add team members who not only value RightShip standards and workplace culture, but also bring an aspect of diversity that positively contributes to our work environment. If you are excited about this role, or about our company in general, we would love to hear from you

Reporting to the Senior Product Owner, the Business Analyst is part of the Data team and will be responsible to confidently bridge business needs with technical delivery. You will play a key role in shaping data models, integration and customer insights capabilities that directly influence engagement, and effectiveness. 

The Data Business Analyst will play a key role in defining features and delivering several data products and initiatives. You will ensure that data-driven insights and capabilities, such as segmentation, modeling and analytics are effectively supported by a robust data model and foundation. 

This role offers challenges across a wide variety of products and responsibilities, including the opportunity to influence the products built by the business. It is ideal for a Business Analyst who thrives in ambiguity, brings strong technical acumen, and is passionate and hands on.  

Major Responsibilities 

BUSINESS ANALYSIS & AGILE DELIVERY  

• Lead workshops with cross-functional stakeholders to define and document business and functional requirements. 
• Translate business goals into clear data and integration requirements. 
• Define the logical data model. 
• Write user stories and acceptance criteria 
• Collaborate with the development team and subject matter experts to ensure business and systems requirements are understood and effectively transitioned into robust technical prototypes 
• Collaborate with stakeholders and work with the team to deliver initiatives using Agile principles 
• Propose solutions to problems and consider timeliness, effectiveness, and practicality in addressing client needs. 
• Participate in Agile ceremonies, including Sprint Planning and Discovery meetings 
• Effectively manage and prioritise own workload, providing regular status updates as required. 

QUALITY VALIDATION & USER ENABLEMENT  

• Support testing and validation across data pipelines, models and transformations. 
• Assist with the co-ordination of Product UAT testing 
• Demonstrate and educate customers on how to use data products in an effective manner as needed  

Qualifications, Skills and Experience 

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Data Science, Business, or a related field. 
• Excellent communication skills and the ability to operate between business, data and technical teams. 
• Proven experience as a Business Analyst on data-centric or analytics projects. 
• Analytical thinking with ability to ask the right questions to understand user problems and develop solutions 
• Ability to plan and schedule development backlog into sprints in an Agile environment 
• Analytical and process-based skills, i.e. process flow diagrams, business & process modelling, data analysis 
• Experience in working with cross-functional teams across multiple geographies 
• Experience with tools such as Jira, Confluence and similar. 
• Solid understanding of data models, pipelines, and SQL. 
• Experience working in Agile / Scrum environments. 

Nice to have: 

• Working knowledge of Databricks. 
• Experience in maritime or environmental sectors. 

RightShip is an Equal Opportunity Employer and values diversity, enables access and promotes inclusion in our workplace. You must have the right to live and work in this location to apply for this job.