Senior Business Analyst

Role summary

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with Product Owners and technical colleagues, including developers and testers, to develop digital solutions and provide team documentation.
• Maintain and refine the product backlog, prioritize it, 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 responsibility.

Qualification

• 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.

Required experience

• 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 methodologies and frameworks such as Scrum or Kanban.
• Experience investigating business requirements, specifying effective business processes, and applying and monitoring modelling and analysis tools, methods, and standards.

Salary and benefits

• 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%.
• Annual leave starts at 25 days and increases by one day per year of service up to 30 days, plus bank holidays and a privilege day.

Contract and working pattern

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

Locations

• Available bases are Bristol, Swansea, Leeds, Nottingham, Newcastle, Oldham (Chadderton), Birmingham (Garretts Green), or Uxbridge.
• For the Uxbridge option, the contractual base is Yeading; staff will temporarily work in Uxbridge during estate works and are expected to work from Yeading when it reopens in 2028.