Discovery Business Analyst

We're Hiring: Senior Business Analyst / Discovery Consultant

Are you passionate about solving complex problems, designing great user experiences, and shaping transformational change? Join our team as a Senior Business Analyst / Discovery Consultant and play a key role in delivering high‐impact digital and business transformation programmes.

What You'll Do

Problem Definition & Discovery

  • Define and validate problem statements with measurable outcomes
  • Map current-state processes, identify pain points and conduct gap analysis
  • Analyse people, process, data and technology landscapes
  • Run hypotheses testing, PoCs and validation sprints

User Research & Design

  • Conduct interviews, surveys and usability testing
  • Build personas, journey maps, service blueprints and experience maps
  • Champion user‐centric design throughout discovery

Business Case & Value Realisation

  • Develop business cases with ROI and cost–benefit analysis
  • Define KPIs, success metrics and baseline measures
  • Build benefits realisation frameworks and tracking mechanisms

Stakeholder Management

  • Identify and map internal/external stakeholders
  • Drive structured engagement and influence decision‐making
  • Plan and facilitate workshops
  • Conduct change impact assessments

Requirements & Analysis

  • Translate insights into detailed requirements, user stories and acceptance criteria
  • Analyse data to validate decisions and assumptions
  • Maintain requirement traceability and define MVP vs. strategic scope

Compliance, Governance & Standards

  • Capture regulatory, accessibility (WCAG), GDPR and security requirements

Strategic Advisory

  • Conduct market research and benchmarking
  • Support RFI/RFQ processes and assess COTS solutions
  • Create delivery roadmaps and identify RAIDs

Cross-functional Collaboration

  • Work across Product, Technical, Security, Testing, Service and Business Design teams
  • Challenge constructively to ensure fit‐for‐purpose solutions

Delivery & Vendor Management

  • Work with external suppliers to ensure accurate delivery
  • Support training, change adoption and smooth handover across Agile/Waterfall

What You Bring

  • Strong experience in discovery, digital transformation or business analysis
  • Excellent communication, facilitation and stakeholder engagement skills
  • Ability to turn insights into actionable requirements and value-driven outcomes
  • Understanding of governance, compliance, accessibility and data protection standards

Why Join Us?

  • We value diversity, inclusion and equal opportunities
  • Flexible working options — job share, part-time or adjusted hours
  • Work on impactful programmes that make a real difference
  • Be part of a supportive, multidisciplinary team

Job Details

Company
Mastek
Location
Slough, Berkshire, UK
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