Senior Business analyst

Senior Technical Business Analyst | Central Government

Day Rate: £600-£650 per day
IR35: Inside IR35
Contract: 6 months
Location: London, Bristol or Manchester

Working Pattern: Predominantly remote, with monthly team days and quarterly face-to-face sessions, usually in London

Clearance: BPSS minimum, candidates must be SC eligible. Active SC is preferred.

We are supporting a Central Government client with the recruitment of an experienced Senior Technical Business Analyst to join a highly technical engineering environment.

This is a hands-on Business Analyst position focused on technical requirements gathering, stakeholder engagement, workshop facilitation and working closely with engineering teams. The successful candidate will need to operate with a high degree of autonomy and be confident engaging with both technical specialists and senior stakeholders.

Key Responsibilities

Lead the elicitation, analysis and refinement of complex technical and business requirements.
Translate complex software requirements into clear problem statements, epics, features, user stories and acceptance criteria.
Work closely with software engineers, technical specialists, users and stakeholders.
Manage requirements, epics, backlogs and dependencies within Jira, maintaining clear traceability.
Lead stakeholder workshops and facilitate discussions across multiple teams and organisations.
Analyse systems, processes and data, producing models and diagrams to make complex situations easier to understand.
Identify risks, dependencies and opportunities for process improvement.
Support Agile delivery and backlog refinement, ensuring technical and user needs are appropriately prioritised.
Produce documentation including discovery reports, business cases and design documentation.
Support test coverage and acceptance criteria, helping ensure delivered solutions meet business and user requirementEssential Experience

We are looking for candidates with strong experience in:

Business Analysis within technical or engineering environments
Technical requirements gathering and translating complex requirements for both technical and non-technical audiences
Working closely with software engineers and multidisciplinary technical teams
Stakeholder management and influencing across complex organisations
Leading workshops and requirements sessions
Previous Central Government or wider public sector experience
Agile delivery environments
Jira, including epics, backlogs and dependencies
Systems, process and data analysis
Working independently and taking ownership with minimal supervision