Senior Business Analyst

About the job

Role responsibilities

• Define and validate business, stakeholder, functional, non-functional, and transition requirements.
• Collaborate with Product Owners and technical colleagues to develop digital solutions and provide team documentation.
• Maintain, refine, and prioritize the product backlog.
• Coordinate communications and escalate and facilitate resolution of risks, issues, and backlog changes.
• Support and mentor business analysts and participate in professional communities of practice.
• The role may include line management responsibility for other business analysts.

Experience required

• Collaborative agile-team experience developing and refining business requirements, user stories, and acceptance criteria with Product Owners and technical colleagues.
• Business analyst experience delivering digital projects and products using agile methods and frameworks such as Scrum or Kanban.
• Experience investigating business requirements and specifying effective business processes.
• Experience using and monitoring modelling and analysis tools, methods, and standards.

Qualification

• Hold the BCS International Diploma in Business Analysis or an equivalent, such as IIBA CCBA or CBAP, or be prepared to work toward one.

Salary and pension

• The advertised salary is £45,900.
• Candidates based in Yeading or Uxbridge receive a £4,000 London Weighting allowance.
• Civil Service Pension employer contribution is 28.97%.

Contract and working pattern

• Contract type is permanent.
• The listed working patterns include full-time, part-time, flexible working, and job share.

Locations and working arrangements

• Advertised locations include Bristol, Swansea, Leeds, Nottingham, Newcastle, Oldham (Chadderton), Birmingham (Garretts Green), and Uxbridge.
• For the Uxbridge option, the contractual base is Yeading; work will temporarily take place in Uxbridge during estate works and move to Yeading when the site reopens in 2028.

Benefits

• The advert lists 25 days of annual leave, increasing by one day per year of service up to 30 days, plus bank holidays and a privilege day.
• Flexible working options are offered.