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 requirement

Essential 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