Senior Technical Business Analyst (SC Cleared)

Senior Technical Business Analyst (SC Cleared)

London Hybrid (2-3 days per week onsite)
Contract: 3 Months
£300-£350 per day
Inside IR35
Active SC Clearance Required

The Opportunity

A leading organisation is seeking an experienced Senior Technical Business Analyst to support a portfolio of digital transformation and technology change initiatives. This is a highly visible role sitting between business stakeholders and technical teams, ensuring strategic objectives are translated into clear requirements and successfully delivered through the full project lifecycle.

The successful candidate will combine strong business analysis expertise with a solid technical understanding of enterprise systems, data flows, integrations, and modern cloud-based technologies. You will work closely with senior stakeholders, architects, engineers, product owners, and delivery teams to drive successful outcomes across complex programmes.

Key Responsibilities

• Elicit, analyse, document, and validate business and technical requirements.
• Translate business needs into user stories, functional specifications, acceptance criteria, and process maps.
• Lead workshops, discovery sessions, and stakeholder interviews.
• Support Agile delivery teams through backlog refinement, sprint planning, reviews, and retrospectives.
• Conduct gap analysis, impact assessments, and feasibility studies.
• Work closely with architects and engineering teams to shape technology solutions.
• Maintain end-to-end requirements traceability throughout the delivery lifecycle.
• Support User Acceptance Testing (UAT), defect management, and business readiness activities.
• Communicate complex technical concepts to non-technical audiences.
• Manage stakeholder relationships and build consensus across multiple business functions.
• Ensure solutions align with governance, security, compliance, and data protection requirements.

Essential Skills & Experience

• Minimum 5 years' experience as a Technical Business Analyst.
• Strong Agile and Scrum delivery experience.
• Excellent requirements gathering and stakeholder management skills.
• Experience using JIRA, Confluence, Azure DevOps, or similar tools.
• Working knowledge of SQL and relational databases.
• Experience with APIs, system integrations, and cloud platforms including Azure and AWS.
• Strong process modelling and documentation skills using Visio or similar tools.
• Proven background working within large, complex, matrix organisations.
• Excellent communication, facilitation, and problem-solving skills.

Desirable

• BCS, CBAP, CCBA, or equivalent Business Analysis certification.
• Experience supporting large-scale digital transformation programmes.
• Public sector or highly regulated industry experience.

Additional Information

• Active SC Clearance is required and candidates must be able to demonstrate current clearance status.
• Hybrid working model with regular travel to the London office.
• Immediate start preferred.