Senior Business Analyst

Sanderson are working with a consulting client who are looking to grow their Business Analysis capability. The client is seeking candidates who have experience with full lifecycle development.

Key Responsibilities

  • Strong and proven business analysis capability across requirements elicitation, analysis, documentation, validation, and management.
  • Ability to independently understand complex business problems and lead the translation of business needs into high-quality requirements and solution designs.
  • Extensive experience producing and assuring business analysis artefacts
  • Confident application of structured analysis and solution design techniques to complex change initiatives.
  • Strong analytical skills, with experience using data to shape recommendations, validate requirements, and influence decision-making.
  • Proven ability to manage and influence senior stakeholders, facilitating alignment across business and technology teams.
  • Extensive experience leading business impact assessments and clearly articulating change impacts, dependencies, and risks.
  • Strong experience operating within Agile and/or Waterfall delivery environments, shaping analysis approaches to suit delivery context.
  • Ability to lead backlog refinement and prioritisation activities, ensuring alignment to value, risk, and delivery dependencies.
  • Experience providing direction and support across testing phases, including complex defect triage and resolution.
  • Strong understanding of system integration, APIs, and data considerations, with the ability to translate technical concepts for non-technical audiences.
  • Experience working with enterprise platforms or cloud technologies
  • Experience collaborating with UX and service design teams, including use of wireframing and prototyping tools.
  • Demonstrated ability to apply emerging technologies to business problems in a pragmatic, value-led way.
  • Demonstrated the understanding of how AI can transform businesses and solutions
  • Experience supporting benefits realisation and embedding change into live operational environments.
  • Confident use of tools such as JIRA, Confluence, Visio, and Excel to drive analysis, reporting, and delivery outcomes.

This role will require you to be willing and eligible to undergo UK security clearance.

If you're interested in the above, apply or reach out to

Job Details

Company
Sanderson
Location
Newcastle Upon Tyne, Tyne and Wear, England, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Full-Time
Salary
Salary negotiable
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