Senior Business Analyst

5 months, 1 week ago
Full-time
Senior
Data Science and Analytics
Methods

Methods

Methods is a top digital transformation partner for the UK public sector, delivering people-centered, safe, and future-focused solutions through innovation and collaboration.

Professional Services
251-1K
Founded 1990

Description

  • Lead business analysis activities within multidisciplinary teams across agile and waterfall project environments.
  • Analyse and understand complex user and business needs from multiple and sometimes conflicting sources.
  • Map business processes and information flows into clear artefacts for stakeholders and delivery teams.
  • Translate user needs into system functionality and well-defined requirements.
  • Elicit, validate, prioritise, and maintain requirements with stakeholders, including traceability and change management.
  • Manage non-functional requirements in context of the wider business and technical environment.
  • Negotiate with stakeholders to balance user-centred design principles against service requirements.
  • Write clear user stories with testable acceptance criteria.
  • Lead and support other business analysts on small to medium projects and more complex transformations.
  • Mentor colleagues and contribute to the Business Analysis Community of Practice.

Requirements

  • Extensive business analysis experience or equivalent knowledge gained through recognised bodies such as BCS, BABOK, or Agile PO.
  • Experience leading analysis as part of a multi-disciplinary team.
  • Ability to select and apply appropriate business modelling techniques to explain problems, situations, and solutions.
  • Experience recommending improvements to business structures, processes, and information flows, supported by automation and technology.
  • Strong experience defining, eliciting, documenting, prioritising, and managing requirements across different change methodologies.
  • Experience managing traceability, requirement changes, refinement, issues, omissions, and escalations.
  • Experience working effectively in fast-paced agile and waterfall environments, with the ability to adapt practice to different methodologies.
  • Excellent stakeholder management skills, including the ability to resolve tension and conflict.
  • Strong problem-solving and analytical skills, with the ability to draw clear conclusions from interviews, published requirements, and data.
  • Confident written and verbal communication skills and a proactive approach to professional development and mentoring.
  • Practical experience with Lean practices, systems thinking, business architecture frameworks such as TOGAF or BIZBOK, or specialist knowledge in a business domain, security, data, or privacy.
  • Knowledge of the UK public services landscape, GDS Service Standards, software development lifecycles, APIs, data modelling, and collaborative tools such as JIRA, Azure DevOps, Teams, Slack, MIRO, or Mural is desirable.
  • Experience with scrum environments, definition of ready/done, data catalogues, logical data models, ERDs, or housing management systems is desirable.
  • Ability to work from home with client site visits as required.

Benefits

  • Autonomy to develop and grow your skills and experience.
  • Opportunity to work on projects that make a difference in society.
  • Supportive and collaborative working environment.
  • Access to LinkedIn Learning, management development programmes, and training.
  • 24/7 confidential employee assistance programme.
  • Flexible working, including home working and part-time options.
  • 25 days of annual leave plus bank holidays, with the option to buy 5 extra days each year.
  • 2 paid volunteering days per year, plus pension, life assurance, private medical insurance, worldwide travel insurance, and enhanced maternity and paternity pay.

Interested in this position?

Apply directly on the company website

Apply Now

Similar Roles

Salesforce Certified Administrator

Formativ Group Internet Software & Services

FormativGroup is seeking a Salesforce Certified Administrator to maintain and optimize the Salesforce platform supporting Sales, Marketing, and business operations in a remote consulting environment.

Salesforce Tableau
12 hours, 23 minutes ago

MS Dynamics Senior Functional Manager

Emma Specialty Retail

Emma – The Sleep Company is seeking a Senior MS Dynamics Functional Manager to scale Finance and Supply Chain ERP systems by translating business needs into robust, maintainable solutions across its international D2C business.

Agile ERP
12 hours, 54 minutes ago

Systems Coordinator (Part- Time)

Reworks Solutions Internet Software & Services

ReWorks Solutions is seeking a remote Systems Coordinator working US Eastern hours to manage electronic health record systems, maintain accurate healthcare data, and support clinical teams with system adoption and troubleshooting.

CRM HIPAA
12 hours, 54 minutes ago

Senior Risk Analyst

Apogee Global RMS Professional Services

Apogee Global RMS is seeking a Risk Analyst to support cross-domain research, enterprise-risk assessments, and executive-ready client deliverables across strategic, operational, financial, human-capital, cyber, and regulatory risks.

Cybersecurity
12 hours, 54 minutes ago

You're on a roll! Sign up now to keep applying.

Sign Up

Already have an account? Log in

Used by 14,729+ remote workers