Senior Business analyst
Senior Technical Business Analyst | Central Government
Day Rate: £600-£650 per day
IR35: Inside IR35
Contract: 6 months
Location: London, Bristol or Manchester
Working Pattern: Predominantly remote, with monthly team days and quarterly face-to-face sessions, usually in London
Clearance: BPSS minimum, candidates must be SC eligible. Active SC is preferred.
We are supporting a Central Government client with the recruitment of an experienced Senior Technical Business Analyst to join a highly technical engineering environment.
This is a hands-on Business Analyst position focused on technical requirements gathering, stakeholder engagement, workshop facilitation and working closely with engineering teams. The successful candidate will need to operate with a high degree of autonomy and be confident engaging with both technical specialists and senior stakeholders.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead the elicitation, analysis and refinement of complex technical and business requirements.
- Translate complex software requirements into clear problem statements, epics, features, user stories and acceptance criteria.
- Work closely with software engineers, technical specialists, users and stakeholders.
- Manage requirements, epics, backlogs and dependencies within Jira, maintaining clear traceability.
- Lead stakeholder workshops and facilitate discussions across multiple teams and organisations.
- Analyse systems, processes and data, producing models and diagrams to make complex situations easier to understand.
- Identify risks, dependencies and opportunities for process improvement.
- Support Agile delivery and backlog refinement, ensuring technical and user needs are appropriately prioritised.
- Produce documentation including discovery reports, business cases and design documentation.
- Support test coverage and acceptance criteria, helping ensure delivered solutions meet business and user requirement
Essential Experience
We are looking for candidates with strong experience in:
- Business Analysis within technical or engineering environments
- Technical requirements gathering and translating complex requirements for both technical and non-technical audiences
- Working closely with software engineers and multidisciplinary technical teams
- Stakeholder management and influencing across complex organisations
- Leading workshops and requirements sessions
- Previous Central Government or wider public sector experience
- Agile delivery environments
- Jira, including epics, backlogs and dependencies
- Systems, process and data analysis
- Working independently and taking ownership with minimal supervision