Technical Business Analyst - Outside IR35 - SC Cleared

SR2 are seeking a Technical Business Analyst to support the discovery, definition, and migration planning for a cloud adoption roadmap, with a particular focus on modern data platform capabilities. The role centres on capturing business-aligned cloud requirements, shaping Databricks-led data platform needs, and supporting a phased migration strategy across critical services and data workloads.

Key Responsibilities
Requirements Discovery

• Lead workshops with Architecture, Data, Engineering, Product, and Cyber to capture Cloud + Databricks needs.
• Define security, compliance, downtime tolerance, RPO/RTO, SLAs, and cost requirements.
• Capture data platform requirements across ingestion, transformation, governance, and analytics (Databricks, Delta Lake, Unity Catalog, Workflows).
• Map service and data dependencies, classify criticality, and align to the Core Cloud capability catalogue.
• Produce a clear, endorsed baseline of Core Cloud + Databricks requirements.

Migration Strategy Support

• Support creation of a risk-based migration plan for services, data pipelines, and analytics workloads.
• Assess current landscape, identify gaps for Databricks enablement, and outline sequencing options.
• Prepare core artefacts (requirements packs, dependency maps, current vs target state, migration considerations).
• Shape sprint-ready BA deliverables with Engineering and Architecture.

Experience Needed

• Proven Technical BA within cloud or data platform programmes (Azure + Databricks ideal).
• Experience working with AWS tech stack
• Strong experience gathering technical, data, and platform requirements.
• Understanding of Databricks (Delta Lake, Unity Catalog, governance, clusters, pipelines).
• Comfortable engaging technical and non-technical stakeholders; strong documentation skills.

Nice to Have: Data platform migration experience; exposure to FinOps; agile delivery.