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UK Trading IT - Principle Business Analyst

Calendarimmediately

ClockFull-time, Fixed-term

GlobeBirmingham

Money£60,000 - £80,000

UK Trading IT - Principle Business Analyst

Location: Birmingham, England, United Kingdom

The UK Trading IT Solutions team is looking for a Principle Business Analyst to join us from June 2026. We are an agile team, practicing continuous development to support the Short Term Power Trading Business we are looking for ambitious player with a range of interpersonal and technical skills to support the digitalisation journey of Uniper in the UK. This is a maternity cover position.

We are Uniper

At Uniper, we are pro-actively transforming the world of energy whilst at the same time ensuring security of energy supply. As an internationally operating company, we work in very diverse teams with the greatest possible working time flexibility for our employees. Our corporate culture is characterized by equal opportunities, mutual appreciation, and respect. With us, you will be able to develop new business models, work on technological solutions for a modern, sustainable, and future-oriented energy supply as well as pro-actively help to shape changes. Interested? Then we will look forward to meeting you!

Your responsibilities

Projects Business Analysis is responsible for identifying and documenting the business needs of their clients and stakeholders and helping to determine feasible solutions to meet business needs or resolve business problems. This position will give you the opportunity to grow to become an active thought partner and solution visionary who shapes the technology demand and direction in the business community.

This position has the following accountabilities:

  • Precisely capture business problems, value drivers, and functional/non-functional requirements, including health, safety, security, usability, data, and supportability considerations.
  • Translate business requirements into functionality and assess the risks, feasibility, opportunities, and business impacts of various solution options.
  • Create clear documentation to communicate requirements and related information; keep updated to align with the solution over the project lifecycle.
  • Ensure traceability of requirements from business needs and requirements, through testing and scope changes, to final solution.
  • Create and present compelling business cases to justify solution value and establish approval, funding and prioritisation.
  • Lead stakeholder management activities including facilitation of large design sessions.
  • Support longer-term business strategic goals through proposing improvements in value, cost, process, data, technology, functionality, and initiating high-level business requirements and feasibility studies to discover options and directions.
  • Respond to organisational and environmental changes during in-progress activities.
  • Guide business stakeholders to gain acceptance/sign-off despite competing objectives.
  • Manage requirements to the smallest set that will provide the biggest impact in advancing business objectives and end-user buy-in.
  • Describe technology in terms easily understood by business customers and set realistic customer expectations for the project outcome.
  • Generate innovative approaches to existing problems or new opportunities.
  • Work closely with stakeholders to build trust and understand their goals, motivations, constraints, risks, and operating environment.
  • Develop resources across geographies to help ensure a consistent quality in a scalable manner.
  • Work as part of evolving multi-disciplinary teams which may include Software Developers, Test Analysts, Business Analysts and Project Managers to deliver value through the application of specialist skills.
  • Leading end to end implementations of requirements and projects.
  • Working with a hybrid team of delivery resources (internal & external); utilising scrum methodology where relevant.
  • Collaborating effectively with cross functional teams across UK, Europe and India.

Your profile

Essential:

  • Substantial experience in IT Business Analyst role preferably in Energy and Trading platform
  • Strong understanding of Batteries and Renewables Trading within Energy Industry.
  • Thorough knowledge in various forms of Commodity Trading
  • Strong understanding of implementing Agile principles within a project setting
  • Experience working in Agile projects and educating stakeholders including Product Owners and Business partners in Agile ways of working
  • Proficiency in Agile tooling, such as VSTS
  • Understanding of systems engineering concepts and data/process analysis and modelling
  • Knowledge of the technology landscape including current and future developments and the most commonly available products and integrated solutions
  • Analytical and systematic problem-solving skills with attention to detail
  • Experience developing cost/benefit analysis and building business cases
  • Ability to analyse the alignment between business requirements and system capabilities
  • Strong interpersonal, communication and influencing skills
  • Agile certifications/trainings, Certified Business Analysis Professional (CBAP) or PMI-PBA certification preferred
  • Lean Practitioner training and experience are an asset

Desirable:

  • Experience working on European Gas & Short Term Power Trading market
  • ETRM systems, system configuration to support Power, CO2, GO and Nat Gas Portfolios - Physical Trading and Financial trading.
  • Working with solution architecture to ensure an end-to-end application landscape which meets business requirements
  • Reviewing and elaborating interface specifications for other systems connecting to ETRMs
  • Define and document standard run books and operating procedures. Create and maintain system information and architecture diagrams.

Job ID:

89135

Location:

Birmingham, United Kingdom

Type of contract:

Fixed-term

Working model:

Full-time, Fixed-term

Start date:

immediately

Application deadline:

23/05/2026

Do you have any questions?

If you have any questions, please feel free to contact us by e-mail and we will get back to you:

resourcinguk@uniper.energy

What makes Uniper stand out as an employer

  • Health Insurance

    Private Medical Insurance

    Rapid access to quality private medical care for illness and injury. The insurance includes a private GP service and pathway services to fast-track care.

  • Money

    Pension Scheme

    Enhanced company pension scheme with employer contributions of up to 12%.

  • Remote

    Flexible Working

    In recognising the benefit of flexible working in achieving the right balance between work and personal lives, Uniper supports varied working arrangements and flexible working applications.

  • Training

    Professional Development and Career Opportunities

    A continuous and personal journey, Uniper supports with flexible learning opportunities and where appropriate professional qualifications.

  • Health Insurance

    Dental Insurance

    With cover levels designed to suit your family circumstances it allows you to claim for routine and complex dental treatments.

  • Smiley

    Holiday Buy and Sell Programme

    In addition to a minimum entitlement of 26 days plus Bank Holidays, the programme enables you to take some extra time off or free up some cash.

  • Travel

    Travel Insurance

    Holiday with complete peace of mind with worldwide or European annual multi-trip travel insurance.

  • Bicycle

    Cycle to Work Scheme

    Purchase a bike and save on tax and National Insurance on your regular commute to work.

  • Fonds

    Uniper Discounts

    Enjoy savings from all your favourite retailers via our employee discount store on everything from high street stores, restaurants and days out.

  • Health Insurance

    Life Insurance

    In addition to company provided Death in Service benefits a ‘top-up’ benefit is available to employees and their partners.

  • Accident Insurance

    Personal Accident Insurance

    A payout in the event of serious accident injuries; for you, your partner and/or children.

  • Health Insurance

    Critical Illness Insurance

    Offering a tax-free lump sum payout should you become ill. Cover can be extended to a partner and child cover is free from birth to 21 years old.

  • Smiley

    Family Friendly Policies

    Many employees have caring responsibilities outside of the workplace. Uniper’s special leave policy reflects the changing needs of employees and aims to accommodate personal commitments where possible.

  • Health

    Mental Health and Wellbeing Support

    Be supported. The Uniper employee assistance program is designed to support your wellbeing inside and outside of the office. Available 24/7 every day of the year it offers a freephone support line, online resources and a confidential counselling service.

The benefits may vary slightly depending on location and role. You can find a complete overview of the benefits here:Benefits
About Uniper
Diversity

Transforming energy security through expertise and commitment

Uniper is a European energy company with a global reach that makes a decisive contribution to security of supply and energy transformation.  We work in very diverse teams and offer our employees as much flexibility as is possible.

Equity, mutual appreciation and respect are the core of our corporate culture. At our company you will have the opportunity to shape new technologies, work on solutions for a modern and future-oriented energy supply and actively design change processes.

Application process

Step 1 - Online application

Step 1

Online application

Have you found a suitable job posting? Then you can apply online right here. The application process is very simple and only takes a few minutes. Once we have received your application successfully, you will receive confirmation by e-mail immediately afterwards.

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Do you have any questions?

Do you have any questions?

Our recruiting team will be happy to assist you via email. Please submit your application exclusively through our online portal – unfortunately, we cannot consider applications sent by email. As long as the position is listed on our careers page, we look forward to your interest and application!

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