Livestock Information Ltd

• Engaging with stakeholders to gather, define, and manage functional and non-functional requirements, supporting delivery through development, testing, and UAT activities. • Conducting data profiling and analysis to support data validation, quality, and understanding for Data Engineering and Data Modelling activities. • Supporting ETL processes by promoting best practices and validating data against Entity Relationship (ER) diagrams and data models. • Creating and maintaining clear, concise documentation and artefacts to support data knowledge and solution understanding. • Supporting Product Owners with stakeholder engagement, User Story and Task creation, data analysis, and solution delivery activities. • Working closely with Data Modelling and Data Engineering teams to support the design and implementation of data solutions, including dimensionally modelled Data Warehouses and Data Lakes using the Microsoft Azure technology stack, including Azure Databricks and Azure Data Factory. • Supporting testing activities through the creation of comprehensive test scenarios and test cases aligned to business requirements and user stories. • Supporting Power BI Development and Support activities by: • Gathering and documenting reporting requirements, including KPIs, metrics, filters, and business rules. • Translating business requirements into clear reporting specifications. • Validating report accuracy and consistency against underlying data sources. • Performing functional testing of reports and dashboards, including filters, slicers, drill-down and drill-through functionality. • Ensuring reporting outputs align with business requirements and agreed data models. • Acting as a liaison between business stakeholders and Power BI developers to support successful delivery. • Collaborating effectively with onshore teams, offshore teams, and external partners to deliver high-quality outcomes. • Supporting wider team delivery activities, including: • Providing effort estimates, tracking progress, and communicating status updates. • Logging and managing defects with clear descriptions, priorities, and severity levels. • Tracking defects through to resolution, validating fixes, and formally closing issues. • Escalating critical risks, issues, or data integrity concerns in a proactive and timely manner.

• Defining the vision and scope of future services, ensuring alignment with user needs and improvements to traceability quality • Developing end-to-end customer journeys, outlining how different user groups will interact with the multi-species system • Translating service propositions into clear personas, user needs, and user stories to support design and delivery • Creating and maintaining a service blueprint, release roadmap, and a single prioritised backlog of work • Ensuring alignment of the service blueprint with the overarching LI blueprint, working collaboratively with other Product Owners and the COO • Identifying and defining all third-party touchpoints, ensuring effective integration across service components • Driving efficiency improvements within the target service model • Collaborating closely with technical and data teams to define and deliver service dependencies • Working with other service teams to ensure seamless delivery within a wider multi-species ecosystem • Partnering with test and transition teams to ensure well-planned and successfully executed releases • Supporting the wider team in identifying and managing change, risks, assumptions, issues, decisions, and dependencies

• Supporting and maintaining efficient and effective data collection and reporting processes    • Carrying out vigorous testing and quality assurance to ensure any improvements to existing systems or new systems produce accurate information to a high quality.  • Using Azure DevOps to build and deploy code to different environments.   • Managing ad hoc data requests to support stakeholder needs • Actively investigating ways of utilising the Azure stack and Databricks platforms to present data in clear, concise, and innovative ways and using this knowledge to benefit both internal and external stakeholders.  • Working closely with Business Analysts and Data Engineers to develop innovative data solutions. • Using the Service Now ITSM tool to manage tickets, service requests, incidents and problems to a timely conclusion. • Complying with Data Protection Act and security and confidentiality rules.   • Keeping abreast of appropriate industry and technological developments and applying to LI’s technical capability.  • You may be required to undertake other duties assigned by your line manager as appropriate

Role Description This role is being offered on a 12 Month Fixed Term Contract. Are you experienced in working with SQL, Databricks, and cloud-based data platforms to deliver high-quality data solutions? Do you enjoy solving complex data challenges, improving processes, and working collaboratively within agile delivery teams? Can you support and optimise data pipelines, deployments, and reporting services while helping drive continuous improvement and automation? If so, we’d love to hear from you! As a Data Development & Support Analyst at LI, you will support and enhance our data platform and reporting services, ensuring data pipelines run efficiently and data is accurately delivered into our Azure Data Lake, Data Warehouse, and Power BI reporting environments. Working within an agile team, you will support CI/CD release processes, manage deployments into pre-production and production environments, and help deliver continuous improvements across the platform. You will also manage data extracts for internal and external stakeholders, identify opportunities to improve data ingestion processes, and drive automation, monitoring, performance, and service reliability improvements. The role will involve working within Azure DevOps to manage Epics, Features, User Stories, and Tasks, helping to support effective planning and delivery across the team. Responsibilities - Supporting and maintaining efficient and effective data collection and reporting processes - Carrying out vigorous testing and quality assurance to ensure any improvements to existing systems or new systems produce accurate information to a high quality - Using Azure DevOps to build and deploy code to different environments - Managing ad hoc data requests to support stakeholder needs - Actively investigating ways of utilising the Azure stack and Databricks platforms to present data in clear, concise, and innovative ways - Working closely with Business Analysts and Data Engineers to develop innovative data solutions - Using the Service Now ITSM tool to manage tickets, service requests, incidents and problems to a timely conclusion - Complying with Data Protection Act and security and confidentiality rules - Keeping abreast of appropriate industry and technological developments and applying to LI’s technical capability - You may be required to undertake other duties assigned by your line manager as appropriate Qualifications - Strong experience in querying and manipulating databases using SQL - Good working knowledge of Databricks and Python - Experience of data ingestion processes and data warehousing principles - A solid understanding of cloud computing technologies and environments - Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with excellent attention to detail - Excellent communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to work effectively across teams and stakeholders - The ability to work independently while also contributing positively within a team environment - Adaptability and flexibility in responding to changing business needs and priorities - Experience working within Agile delivery environments and SCRUM teams - Experience using Azure DevOps to manage tasks, workloads, and delivery activities - Familiarity with the Azure Cloud Platform and associated services Benefits - A fully remote and flexible working set up - 25 days annual leave, increasing by 1 day each year of service up to maximum of 30 days (plus Bank Holidays) - 1 Privilege Day - 4 x annual salary Life Assurance - Market leading pension scheme through Legal & General - Enhanced Family Friendly Policies - Excellent learning, training, and career development opportunities - 24/7 access to our Employee Assistance Programme - A diverse and inclusive culture where everyone is respected and valued

Role Description Are you an experienced Product Owner who can balance user needs, business priorities, and service delivery within a fast-paced environment? Do you enjoy working across multi-disciplinary teams to shape end-to-end services, manage backlogs, and drive continuous improvement? Can you lead stakeholder engagement, define service roadmaps, and deliver data-driven products and services within complex multi-stakeholder environments? If so, we’d love to hear from you! As a Product Owner at Livestock Information Ltd, you will be responsible for defining and maintaining a cohesive scope for service delivery within the wider Livestock Information Service (LIS) programme. You will: - Lead the definition and agreement of end-to-end service scope, ensuring alignment with organisational priorities and user needs. - Develop and maintain the service blueprint and roadmap, ensuring that epics, features, and user stories are clearly defined, prioritised, and approved across all services, products, and processes. - Establish and maintain a comprehensive release plan to support the successful and timely delivery of all components. Responsibilities - Defining the vision and scope of future services, ensuring alignment with user needs and improvements to traceability quality. - Developing end-to-end customer journeys, outlining how different user groups will interact with the multi-species system. - Translating service propositions into clear personas, user needs, and user stories to support design and delivery. - Creating and maintaining a service blueprint, release roadmap, and a single prioritised backlog of work. - Ensuring alignment of the service blueprint with the overarching LI blueprint, working collaboratively with other Product Owners and the COO. - Identifying and defining all third-party touchpoints, ensuring effective integration across service components. - Driving efficiency improvements within the target service model. - Collaborating closely with technical and data teams to define and deliver service dependencies. - Working with other service teams to ensure seamless delivery within a wider multi-species ecosystem. - Partnering with test and transition teams to ensure well-planned and successfully executed releases. - Supporting the wider team in identifying and managing change, risks, assumptions, issues, decisions, and dependencies. - You may be required to undertake other duties assigned by your line manager as appropriate. Qualifications - Proven experience in a Product Owner role, ideally within a start-up or fast-paced environment. - Demonstrable experience designing and implementing changes in complex, multi-user and multi-stakeholder environments with competing priorities. - Strong track record of delivering data-driven services focused on user needs and service quality. - Experience working within multi-disciplinary teams across the full product lifecycle, from discovery through to live service. - Ability to think creatively and translate user needs into end-to-end service design. - Self-motivated with strong organisational and structured thinking skills, able to provide clarity and direction in a rapidly evolving environment. - Excellent project management capabilities, with the ability to manage multiple priorities effectively. - Strong interpersonal, stakeholder management, and negotiation skills, with experience operating in complex or politically sensitive environments. - Excellent communication skills, with the ability to engage, influence, and align a wide range of stakeholders. - Experience designing end-to-end service blueprints, developing roadmaps, and managing prioritised backlogs. Benefits - A fully remote and flexible working set up. - 25 days annual leave, increasing by 1 day each year of service up to a maximum of 30 days (plus Bank Holidays). - 1 Privilege Day. - 4 x annual salary Life Assurance. - Market leading pension scheme through Legal & General. - Enhanced Family Friendly Policies. - Excellent learning, training, and career development opportunities. - 24/7 access to our Employee Assistance Programme. - A diverse and inclusive culture where everyone is respected and valued.

Role Description This role is being offered on a 12 Month Fixed Term Contract. As a Data Business Analyst at LI, you will play a key role in shaping and supporting high-quality data and reporting solutions that help drive business decisions and improve services. - Engaging with stakeholders to gather, define, and manage functional and non-functional requirements, supporting delivery through development, testing, and UAT activities. - Conducting data profiling and analysis to support data validation, quality, and understanding for Data Engineering and Data Modelling activities. - Supporting ETL processes by promoting best practices and validating data against Entity Relationship (ER) diagrams and data models. - Creating and maintaining clear, concise documentation and artefacts to support data knowledge and solution understanding. - Supporting Product Owners with stakeholder engagement, User Story and Task creation, data analysis, and solution delivery activities. - Working closely with Data Modelling and Data Engineering teams to support the design and implementation of data solutions, including dimensionally modelled Data Warehouses and Data Lakes using the Microsoft Azure technology stack, including Azure Databricks and Azure Data Factory. - Supporting testing activities through the creation of comprehensive test scenarios and test cases aligned to business requirements and user stories. - Supporting Power BI Development and Support activities by: - Gathering and documenting reporting requirements, including KPIs, metrics, filters, and business rules. - Translating business requirements into clear reporting specifications. - Validating report accuracy and consistency against underlying data sources. - Performing functional testing of reports and dashboards, including filters, slicers, drill-down and drill-through functionality. - Ensuring reporting outputs align with business requirements and agreed data models. - Acting as a liaison between business stakeholders and Power BI developers to support successful delivery. - Collaborating effectively with onshore teams, offshore teams, and external partners to deliver high-quality outcomes. - Supporting wider team delivery activities, including: - Providing effort estimates, tracking progress, and communicating status updates. - Logging and managing defects with clear descriptions, priorities, and severity levels. - Tracking defects through to resolution, validating fixes, and formally closing issues. - Escalating critical risks, issues, or data integrity concerns in a proactive and timely manner. - You may be required to undertake other duties assigned by your line manager as appropriate. Qualifications - Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to build effective working relationships across technical and business teams. - Strong documentation skills and the ability to communicate complex information clearly to both technical and non-technical audiences. - Strong experience using SQL for data analysis, validation, and troubleshooting. - Excellent attention to detail with a strong focus on data quality, accuracy, and consistency. - A good understanding of ETL processes, data warehousing concepts, and data lifecycle management. - Familiarity with Entity Relationship (ER) diagrams and data modelling principles. - Experience defining and executing test scenarios and test cases within Agile or similar delivery environments. - Proven experience working with Power BI in a Business Analysis capacity, including stakeholder engagement, requirements gathering, report validation, and functional testing. - The ability to manage multiple priorities effectively while working collaboratively across cross-functional teams. Benefits - A fully remote and flexible working set up. - 25 days annual leave, increasing by 1 day each year of service up to a maximum of 30 days (plus Bank Holidays). - 1 Privilege Day. - 4 x annual salary Life Assurance. - Market leading pension scheme through Legal & General. - Enhanced Family Friendly Policies. - Excellent learning, training, and career development opportunities. - 24/7 access to our Employee Assistance Programme. - A diverse and inclusive culture where everyone is respected and valued.

• Conducting detailed business and technical requirements analysis in collaboration with business stakeholders and technical teams. • Eliciting, analysing, validating, and documenting business requirements to ensure a clear understanding of needs and desired outcomes. • Translating business requirements into clear, structured, and testable functional and non-functional requirements. • Supporting the design of scalable and sustainable IT solutions that meet business needs, working closely with architects and development teams. • Modelling current and future business processes using BPMN or similar frameworks to identify improvement opportunities. • Acting as a key liaison between business units and technical teams, ensuring clear, consistent communication throughout the delivery lifecycle. • Collaborating with Product Owners and Architects to understand product roadmaps, priorities, and technical constraints. • Supporting the development and refinement of product backlogs, including epics, features, and user stories, ensuring they are well-defined and ready for development. • Working with development teams during delivery to clarify requirements and support correct implementation. • Participating in agile ceremonies, including sprint planning, refinement, reviews, and retrospectives. • Documenting business processes, user journeys, and functional designs to support solution development and change adoption. • Supporting data-related analysis required to inform requirements and solution design, working alongside data and reporting specialists where appropriate. • Contributing to service design and business change activities to support smooth transition into live operation. • Identifying and documenting risks, assumptions, issues, dependencies, and decisions related to requirements and scope. • Supporting delivery planning and progress tracking in collaboration with Project Managers or Delivery Leads. • Providing walkthroughs or demonstrations of functionality to stakeholders to support understanding and acceptance. • Identifying opportunities for continuous improvement in processes, tools, and ways of working

Role Description Are you passionate about transforming intricate business challenges into straightforward, actionable requirements that drive exceptional digital services? Can you navigate through uncertainties, unite business and technology teams, and craft scalable cloud solutions utilising BPMN, data insights, and agile methodologies? Do you want to be at the core of delivery, shaping products, enhancing processes, and making a tangible impact with the systems you contribute to designing? If so, we’d love to hear from you! As a Technical Business Analyst at Livestock Information, you’ll be right at the centre of shaping digital services that matter. You’ll work across the organisation to turn complex business needs into clear, actionable requirements that power great digital products. Your responsibilities will include: - Conducting detailed business and technical requirements analysis in collaboration with business stakeholders and technical teams. - Eliciting, analysing, validating, and documenting business requirements to ensure a clear understanding of needs and desired outcomes. - Translating business requirements into clear, structured, and testable functional and non-functional requirements. - Supporting the design of scalable and sustainable IT solutions that meet business needs, working closely with architects and development teams. - Modelling current and future business processes using BPMN or similar frameworks to identify improvement opportunities. - Acting as a key liaison between business units and technical teams, ensuring clear, consistent communication throughout the delivery lifecycle. - Collaborating with Product Owners and Architects to understand product roadmaps, priorities, and technical constraints. - Supporting the development and refinement of product backlogs, including epics, features, and user stories, ensuring they are well-defined and ready for development. - Working with development teams during delivery to clarify requirements and support correct implementation. - Participating in agile ceremonies, including sprint planning, refinement, reviews, and retrospectives. - Documenting business processes, user journeys, and functional designs to support solution development and change adoption. - Supporting data-related analysis required to inform requirements and solution design, working alongside data and reporting specialists where appropriate. - Contributing to service design and business change activities to support smooth transition into live operation. - Identifying and documenting risks, assumptions, issues, dependencies, and decisions related to requirements and scope. - Supporting delivery planning and progress tracking in collaboration with Project Managers or Delivery Leads. - Providing walkthroughs or demonstrations of functionality to stakeholders to support understanding and acceptance. - Identifying opportunities for continuous improvement in processes, tools, and ways of working. Qualifications - Demonstrable experience and a strong understanding of business analysis principles, practices, and methodologies. - Experience working within organisations operating under ISO27001 and ISO20000 service management standards. - Experience working with Azure-based cloud services and familiarity with the GDS Service Manual. - Proven ability to undertake business analysis for innovative and impactful digital or technology-enabled products. - Experience writing SQL queries and confidently exploring data across multiple data warehouses, databases and Azure container environments. - Experience working in agile delivery environments, using tools such as Jira or Azure DevOps to manage requirements and backlogs. - Experience creating, maintaining, and refining product backlogs and requirements documentation. - Strong working knowledge of business analysis tools and techniques, including BPMN for process modelling. - Experience collaborating with development teams and solution architects to support effective product design and delivery. - Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills, with strong attention to detail. - Clear and effective communication skills, both written and verbal, with the ability to engage a range of technical and non-technical stakeholders. - Ability to stay current with relevant IT developments, trends, and emerging technologies. Benefits - A fully remote and flexible working set up. - 25 days annual leave, increasing by 1 day each year of service up to maximum of 30 days (plus Bank Holidays). - 1 Privilege Day. - 4 x annual salary Life Assurance. - Market leading pension scheme through Legal & General. - Enhanced Family Friendly Policies. - Excellent learning, training, and career development opportunities. - 24/7 access to our Employee Assistance Programme. - A diverse and inclusive culture where everyone is respected and valued.

The salary for this role is £45,000 This role is advertised on a 12 month fixed term contract with the possibility of extension. Are you a hands-on DevOps engineer who enjoys solving live issues and making platforms better each week? Can you turn Azure, CI/CD, and Infrastructure as Code into smooth, reliable delivery pipelines? Would you love the opportunity to build secure Azure pipelines that keep real, live services running every day?    If so, we’d love to hear from you! At Livestock Information Ltd, our mission is to be an outstanding service provider of livestock data, empowering government, industry, and farmers to effectively manage disease and infection control, whilst enhancing productivity and innovation in agriculture. To achieve this, we need great people, who share in our values.  As an Azure DevOps Engineer, you’ll design and manage DevOps pipelines across PaaS-based Azure environments, embedding secure-by-design principles and meeting industry and government security standards. You’ll work closely with development, operations, and security teams to deliver automated, secure, and scalable services, while supporting live and non-production platforms. The role includes 3rd-line support, break-fix and out-of-hours cover on a shift basis, platform optimisation, and providing hands-on technical support to development teams. Responsibilities Your responsibilities will include - Deploying, monitoring, maintaining and improving our Azure platform - Providing timely and efficient break-fix support to resolve system issues and minimise downtime in line with Service Level Agreements including out-of-hours. - Monitoring system performance, availability, and capacity, perform infrastructure as code optimisation to ensure cost efficiency and reliable service. - Providing 3rd line support for live Azure Platform services, addressing complex issues and coordinating with internal teams to maintain service uptime. - Delivering and supporting the customers’ infrastructure requirements for service enhancements and new projects. - Leveraging deep expertise in Microsoft Azure’s IaaS, PaaS and SaaS offerings to design, implement, and managing cloud-based solutions that align with business and technical needs. - Designing, building, and maintaining automated CI/CD pipelines in collaboration with design partners, enabling faster, more reliable software releases. - Implementing best practices for version control, continuous integration, and code review processes. - Using Infrastructure as Code tools such as Azure Resource Manager (ARM) templates or terraform to provision and manage Azure cloud resources. Ensure consistent, secure, and reproducible infrastructure deployments. - Implementing security best practices and align infrastructure with compliance frameworks such as the Azure Security Benchmark, CIS benchmark, NIST, NCSC. - Configuring real-time monitoring and alerting within Azure to gain insights into application performance and system health. Set up proactive alerts to respond to any incidents and anomalies promptly. - Fostering strong relationships with software development, testing, and operations teams to ensure seamless integration of DevOps practices. You may be required to undertake other duties assigned by your line manager as appropriate

• Deploying, monitoring, maintaining and improving our Azure platform • Providing timely and efficient break-fix support to resolve system issues and minimise downtime in line with Service Level Agreements including out-of-hours. • Monitoring system performance, availability, and capacity, perform infrastructure as code optimisation to ensure cost efficiency and reliable service. • Providing 3rd line support for live Azure Platform services, addressing complex issues and coordinating with internal teams to maintain service uptime. • Delivering and supporting the customers’ infrastructure requirements for service enhancements and new projects. • Leveraging deep expertise in Microsoft Azure’s IaaS, PaaS and SaaS offerings to design, implement, and managing cloud-based solutions that align with business and technical needs. • Designing, building, and maintaining automated CI/CD pipelines in collaboration with design partners, enabling faster, more reliable software releases. • Implementing best practices for version control, continuous integration, and code review processes. • Using Infrastructure as Code tools such as Azure Resource Manager (ARM) templates or terraform to provision and manage Azure cloud resources. Ensure consistent, secure, and reproducible infrastructure deployments. • Implementing security best practices and align infrastructure with compliance frameworks such as the Azure Security Benchmark, CIS benchmark, NIST, NCSC. • Configuring real-time monitoring and alerting within Azure to gain insights into application performance and system health. Set up proactive alerts to respond to any incidents and anomalies promptly. • Fostering strong relationships with software development, testing, and operations teams to ensure seamless integration of DevOps practices.