Senior Business Analyst

Role overview

Responsibilities

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

Required experience

• Experience collaborating with Product Owners and technical colleagues to develop and refine business requirements, user stories, and acceptance criteria in agile teams.
• Experience applying agile methods and frameworks such as Scrum or Kanban to digital projects and products.
• Experience investigating business requirements, specifying effective processes, and applying and monitoring modelling and analysis tools, methods, and standards.

Qualifications

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

Locations and work base

• The role can be based in Bristol, Swansea, Leeds, Nottingham, Newcastle, Oldham (Chadderton), Birmingham (Garretts Green), or Uxbridge.
• For applicants choosing Uxbridge, the contractual base is Yeading. Work will temporarily begin in Uxbridge while the Yeading site is under construction; employees are required to work from Yeading after it reopens in 2028.

Contract and working pattern

• The position is permanent. Working patterns include full-time, part-time, flexible working, and job share.

Salary and benefits

• The stated salary is £45,900; candidates based in Yeading or Uxbridge receive a £4,000 London Weighting allowance.
• The employer contributes 28.97% to the Civil Service Pension.
• Annual leave starts at 25 days and increases by one day per year of service up to 30 days, plus eight bank holidays and a privilege day for the King's birthday.
• Flexible working options are offered.