Senior Business Analyst

Join us as a Senior Business Analyst on a 12-month fixed-term contract, where you’ll work on high-complexity, business-critical projects that shape how our clients operate. You’ll be part of a collaborative, expert Business Analysis community known for its supportive culture, shared knowledge, and commitment to best practice.

We can offer great career progression opportunities, the ability to be based anywhere across the UK, benefits which you can flex to meet your needs and training and development opportunities.

You’ll generally work remotely but may need to travel occasionally for client meetings or project needs. This role requires you to hold SC clearance before you can start.

What you'll be doing:

• Leading user requirements elicitation, translating insights into epics, features, user stories and clear roadmaps.
• Facilitating workshops and discovery activities to shape problem statements, validate assumptions and define future-state processes.
• Producing high-quality BA artefacts Including process maps (using Business Process Model Notation or Unified Modeling Language), service design outputs, as-is/to-be analysis and acceptance criteria.
• Managing and refining backlogs, ensuring requirements are prioritised, understood and ready for delivery.
• Building strong stakeholder relationships, ensuring clear communication and effective engagement throughout each project.
• Applying Agile or Waterfall approaches as appropriate, ensuring assignments are delivered to agreed time, quality and financial measures.

What you’ll bring:

• Current SC clearance, or eligibility to obtain it.
• Significant experience working as a Senior Business Analyst in large or complex environments.
• Strong experience in requirements engineering, including elicitation, user stories (using INVEST principles), and definition of acceptance criteria.
• Practical experience using Jira, Confluence or Azure DevOps for requirements management.
• Solid ability to produce process models, data analysis, options evaluations and structured documentation.
• A good understanding of IT systems and software development practices to bridge technical and business needs.

It would be great if you had:

• Experience working within government or public-sector environments.
• Familiarity with broader BA toolsets, such as wireframing or prototyping tools, to support early-stage solution definition.
• Experience using collaborative platforms (for example, Miro or virtual workshop tools) during elicitation and engagement activities.

If you are interested in this role but not sure if your skills and experience are exactly what we’re looking for, please do apply, we’d love to hear from you!

Employment Type: 12 Month Fixed Term Contract

Location: UK Wide

Security Clearance Level: SC

Internal Recruiter: Annecia

Salary: up to £52,000 dependent on experience.

Benefits: 25 days annual leave with the choice to buy additional days, health cash plan, life assurance, and pension.

Although this role is advertised as full-time, we believe that flexibility at work can promote work/life balance, increase your motivation, reduce stress and improves performance and productivity. We support different ways of working and can offer a range of flexible working arrangements. So, if you’re interested and need to work flexibly, we encourage you to apply and talk to us about what might be possible.

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With a long history of delivering transformation, we've developed a market-leading partnership ecosystem to provide business services of the future and shape valuable, positive outcomes for communities. We empower our clients by providing innovative solutions and commercial models that help them meet their business needs, drive operational efficiencies, and deliver impactful value creation. We remain committed to values of excellence, empathy and respect to produce transformative outcomes in business processing – creating value for all.

We embrace difference as a source of creativity, innovation and competitive advantage and are striving to become a more diverse organisation. We welcome applications from people with a diverse variety of backgrounds and identities. We are committed to equality of opportunity for all and do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, colour, gender, age, disability, sexual orientation or marital status. We have partnered with Vercida, the UK's largest diversity and inclusion focused careers site, where all our vacancies are available in an accessible format.

If you require any adjustments to the recruitment process, to enable you to perform to the best of your ability, please let us know when completing your application. We participate in the Disability Confident scheme and are committed to offering an interview to any candidate with a disability, who meets the minimum criteria for the role. If you believe this could apply to you, please let us know when completing your application.