Senior Business Analyst

EirGrid Group has a unique role to play in leading this radical transformation of our power system in support of the transition to renewable energy. This will require pioneering engineering effort together with enhanced IT capability to respond successfully to the scale of disruption. This offers a unique opportunity to further your career in IT while playing a significant role in delivering EirGrid Group’s IT transformation.

We’re an IT intensive business, and we operate a state-of-the-art, specialised business-critical systems, 24/7. As we transition to a low-carbon energy future, this is an opportunity for a business analyst to make a real impact in our IT Portfolio & Engagement team.

Job Purpose

This an excellent opportunity for experienced Business Analysts to be part of a team who are the primary interface for business engagement in the delivery of the project and service portfolios. In this role, you will work closely with Business Change teams and business experts to analyse concepts, crystallising them into deliverable solutions through the development of requirements and other analyst artefacts. This may involve the understanding of requirements arising internally, from national and EU changes, but also from identifying gaps and solutions needed to support 80% renewable electricity targets. As the Business Analyst, you will have the ability to move seamlessly between traditional waterfall methods of project development and agile methods.

This is a cross functional group wide role and requires an ability to collaborate with stakeholders throughout the business to deliver successful business outcomes.

You will have a keen interest in developing your skills and experience across a broad range of emerging technologies, which may encompass power systems, electricity markets or digital transformation.

Key Responsibilities

- Business Analysis activities across a broad range of transformation projects across our market management, energy management and/or corporate solutions.

- Gathering requirements from key stakeholders and experts across the business, translating complex business requirements, or abstract concepts into deliverable requirements.

- Inputting to the development of business cases and proposals

- Preparing and leading formal requirements gathering sessions and workshops with experts across the business, demonstrating an ability to communicate with technical and non-technical staff

- Working with external and internal stakeholders, strategic partners and vendors in the definition and delivery of effective solutions aligned to the business strategy

- Identifying potential risks, gaps and issues

- Facilitating requirements prioritisation and enabling the business to make effective decisions

- Production of required documentation including business conceptual overviews, user stories, day-in-the-life of, business capability analysis, requirements documents, data flows, system integration flows, process maps and business/functional specifications.

- Development of business requirements documentation from draft through to sign-off, complying with required methodologies and governance processes

- Work with the business to understand and develop functional requirements to support solution designs

- Assisting the business with change impacts analysis, training strategies, planning and execution

- Responsible for change request management throughout the lifecycle of developments, projects and operational changes

- Provide innovative ideas and solutions drawing on external best practice and expertise.

Knowledge, Skills and Experience

- Degree in engineering, business, economics or other relevant qualifications, with 5 plus years practical experience in analysis activities (i.e. requirement gathering, creating specifications, workshop facilitation, business process design, reports design and business process modelling); ideally but not essentially in the utility or energy sectors

- Experienced in writing and presenting technical and non-technical reports

- A good understanding of the full Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC)

- Detail oriented with an ability to understand customer needs

- Ability to operate with both agile and waterfall methodologies

- Ability to work with others and to collaborate with a diverse range of people to arrive at the optimum solutions.

Closing date for applications

31/10/2025

We/'re dedicated to diversity and inclusion at Eirgrid. We recognise the strength that comes from having a diverse workforce and the importance of a supportive culture for all our people to achieve their potential. Our diversity and inclusion networks have been designed to create an inclusive culture that enables our people to feel a sense of belonging at work.

As an equal opportunities’ employer, we welcome applications from people of all backgrounds. Reasonable accommodations are offered at every stage of our recruitment process.

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