Application Analyst - Business Partnerships - Righ

Skills

Go Microsoft Excel Jira SQL Salesforce Quality Assurance Scrum Sales CRM Databases Confluence Agile

Job Specifications

Role: Application Analyst - Business Partnerships

Location: Milton Keynes (Hybrid - 2 days per week in the office)

Reporting to: Business Systems Manager

The Role

The Product Development team plays a pivotal role in delivering the overall digital experience for customers, consumers and colleagues underpinning the Rightmove business. We recognise that to deliver the best products and features for our consumers, customers and colleagues we need to work effectively as a healthy, high performing team. We work collaboratively across a mix of product and centralised teams, together working towards Rightmove's strategy.

The Application Analyst role sits within one of our Internal Product Teams providing digital solutions to Rightmove's internal teams. The role is an important part of one of our SCRUM product teams working with the Product Owner, Software and QA Engineers within the team to analyse business problems, design and deliver technical solutions. The Application Analyst will deliver technical solutions through configuration of business applications (either third party or developed by Rightmove) and low-code solutions to meet Rightmove's users' and business needs.

The Application Analyst role reports to the Business Systems Manager and works closely with other application and platform engineers, Product Owners, Architects and Operations team members.

A typical week as an Application Analyst might involve

Spending time with Rightmove's teams to identify and understand where your technology delivery capabilities can help them 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.
Assisting the team with testing work developed by the Software Engineers in your team to meet a sprint deadline.
Using scripts to extract some data from Rightmove's databases to make an evidenced-based decision on pro's and con's of different solution designs.
Building low-code workflows and customisations within our CRM system to improve sales enablement.
Writing SQL to modify data within Rightmove's business applications.
Develop and maintain efficient slide deck automation templates to streamline the operational efficiency of our Account Managers.
Using the UiPath Robotic Process Automation platform to automate manual tasks around the organisation

We're looking for someone who

Is a creative and logical problem-solver who is passionate about using technology to solve problems
Enjoys working directly with the eventual users of their solutions
Can communicate and question end users clearly to establish precisely what is needed
Enjoys debating the merits of potential solutions with their team
Challenges their team on direction when they don't understand or agree, even when the area you are working in is new to them
Takes ownership and responsibility for the work, and the quality thereof, they and their team deliver
Asks questions and uses the experience of those around them
Looks to share their knowledge and skills both in and outside their direct tea
Can manage and prioritise tasks with a sense of urgency
Has the ability to deliver at pace in an agile environment, focused on continuous improvement

We're looking for someone who has

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 technologie
Confidence manipulating and extracting insight from large datasets

We would love to find someone who has

A history of improving internal processes
Understands BPMN and be able to design and develop efficient workflows
Has experience building and configuring low code functionality in CRM systems such as SugarCRM or Salesforce
Can build robots using a tool such as UiPath, Automation Anywhere or Blue Prism
Has experience of using collaborations tools such as Confluence and JIRA or similar
Has previously worked in an Agile or Scrum team

About Rightmove

Our vision is to give everyone the belief they can make their move. We aim to make moving simpler, by giving everyone the best place to turn to and return to for access to the tools, expertise, trust and belief to make it happen.

We're home to the UK's largest choice of properties, and are the go-to destination for millions of people planning their next move, reading the latest industry news, or just browsing what's on the market.

Despite this growth, we've remained a friendly, supportive place to work, with employee #1 still working here! We've done this by placing the Rightmove Hows at the heart of everything we do. These are the essential va

About the Company

Since launching in March 2000, we have remained the market leader and the go to place for people looking for their next home to buy or place to rent. To make all those home hunters happy we’ve invested in our tech and our website, we’re constantly looking to try new things with an aim to help make home moving easier. Home movers across the UK spend more than a billion minutes on Rightmove each month. Our website and apps receive over 150M views per month, making us one of the most top visited sites in the UK! Helping our ... Know more