Business Analyst / Senior Business Analyst | Solve Complex Challenges
Business Analyst/Senior Business Analyst
Location: Newcastle, three days per week on site- must be willing to relocate if not local
Contract: 12-month fixed-term contract, with the intention to convert to permanent
Level: Senior Analyst / Consultant
We’re hiring Business Analysts at two experience levels to help translate complex business needs into clear, deliverable outcomes. You may be developing your capability across requirements and process analysis, or bringing the experience to lead analysis across a workstream, product or programme.
What you’ll do
- Elicit, analyse, model, document, validate and prioritise business and technical requirements.
- Create high-quality artefacts including user stories, epics, process models, business rules, data specifications and acceptance criteria.
- Use structured analysis and process-improvement techniques such as UML, BPMN, capability mapping and impact assessment.
- Work with product, architecture, engineering, data, testing and delivery colleagues to support successful outcomes.
- Assess business impacts, dependencies, risks and opportunities arising from organisational and technical change.
- Support solution validation, UAT planning, defect triage, production readiness and post-implementation reviews.
- At the more experienced level, lead analysis activity, assure quality, coach other analysts and influence business and technology decisions.
What we’re looking for
- Proven business analysis experience in Agile, Waterfall or hybrid delivery environments.
- Strong stakeholder engagement, facilitation, analytical and problem-solving skills.
- An understanding of system integrations, data flows, APIs and digital or technology-enabled transformation.
- Experience with tools such as JIRA, Confluence, Visio, Miro, Lucidchart or Excel.
- For the upper end of the range, experience owning complex workstreams, shaping analysis strategy or mentoring others.
Requirements
Essential Requirements
- Proven Business Analysis experience within technology or business change environments
- Strong requirements gathering and process mapping experience
- Experience working in Agile delivery teams
- Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills
- Proficiency with JIRA, Confluence, Visio and Miro
- Strong analytical and problem-solving abilities
- Hold Right to Work in the UK
- Must be able to obtain SC Clearance.
Applicants must be eligible for SC clearance: To be eligible, candidates must have five years of continuous UK address history, with no period of 30 consecutive days or more spent outside the UK during that period.
Benefits
What We Offer
- Package: £35,000–£65,000, depending on experience and level, plus 23 days’ holiday and company pension.
- A supportive environment focused on your development.
- Exposure to exciting, fast paced projects.
- Opportunity to work with we large, well respected organisation to further your Java career.
- 3 days a week on site, with the rest from home.
Our Approach to Hiring
We’re committed to creating a fair, inclusive and supportive hiring experience for every candidate. We welcome applications from people with different backgrounds, experiences and perspectives, and we want you to feel comfortable bringing your authentic self to the process. If you feel like this is the right role for you, apply today to open up a world of opportunity!
Skills
As published by workable · 11 questions · 4 written answers
Basics
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Pick from a list (7)
- Ability to work onsite in Newcastle 5 days a week or relocate.
- Do you have a background in computing/coding? i.e accredited courses, previous bootcamps/training.
- Do you have work experience or higher education in a STEM subject/area (Science, Technology, Engineering or Maths)?
- Do you consider yourself to have a disability?
- Do you have any unspent convictions that you are required to disclose and that may be identified during a background check?
- Due to tax purposes, you must reside in the UK for your employment with _nology, please tick yes to confirm your understanding of this.
- _nology is committed to encouraging greater diversity and inclusion in the technology sector. Your responses will support _nology regarding its approach to communicating in as inclusive a way as possible, and measuring our impact on diversity and social mobility in the technology sector. Any responses that you provide will not affect your application with _nology. Please select yes to acknowledge that you have read and understood this statement.
Written answers (4)
- Do you have a UK passport or a UK birth certificate?
- If you have proof of right to work in the UK but you are not a citizen, please provide details about the type of visa you have. If you have a UK passport or birth certificate, please type N/A.
- When does your proof of right to work visa expire? If you have a UK passport or birth certificate, please type N/A.
- Do you consider yourself to be neurodivergent?