Senior BA (Newcastle upon Tyne)

Senior Business Analyst

Location: Newcastle-based (team-defined hybrid working with occasional travel)

Rate: £450 - £470 a day inside IR35

Clearance: BPSS required

Contract Type: 3 Month contract – Likely to be extended

An opportunity is available for an experienced Senior Business Analyst to support a major public-sector transformation programme focused on health and disability services.

The role sits within a multidisciplinary delivery team responsible for progressing the next phase of a developing data strategy and reviewing an existing data platform. The successful candidate will play a key role in shaping future data capabilities, defining strategic direction, and supporting scalable service delivery.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead requirements elicitation in a strategic context, helping shape direction and reduce ambiguity
• Engage effectively with stakeholders across multidisciplinary teams, including technical and non-technical functions
• Translate business needs into clear data requirements, including:
• Measures
• Dimensions
• Attributes
• Business definitions
• Logical data sourcing rules
• Develop business use cases to define capabilities required for a future-state data platform
• Support the creation of a “North Star” vision for data within the programme
• Conduct options analysis in collaboration with Solution Architects and Product Leads
• Contribute to the design of data onboarding processes to support platform scalability
• Support implementation of a data governance framework across the organisation
• Assist in evaluating and improving data quality and suitability for solution

Essential Skills & Experience

• Strong experience working as a Senior Business Analyst
• Proven experience in Big Data and/or Data Warehouse environments
• Ability to translate business requirements into data logic and structures
• Experience producing business definitions and logical data sourcing rules
• Hands-on experience with data profiling and assessing data quality
• Understanding of:
• Data platform architectures
• Data models and schemas
• Data consumption and reporting tools
• Strong stakeholder engagement skills across complex, multi-team environments
• Experience working in strategic or transformation settings