Senior Business Analyst

Senior Business Analyst - Outside IR35 - Fully Remote - Major Digital Transformation - GDS framework

Rate: £500 - £650 per day

Assignment duration: Six months initial

We're supporting a renowned consultancy, delivering a major digital transformation programme for a large public sector organisation and are looking for an experienced Senior BA to join the project ASAP.

This is an opportunity to help shape the future-state data landscape, designing modern user centric platforms, defining migration strategies and ensuring solutions align with wider business and technology objectives.

We're looking for a Senior Business Analyst with deep experience delivering complex digital transformation programmes within Government Digital Service (GDS) environments.

This role requires a BA who is \"GDS through and through\", someone who understands how to translate business needs into user-centred digital services, navigate complex stakeholder environments, and drive delivery across multidisciplinary teams.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead business analysis activities across large-scale digital transformation programmes.
• Elicit, analyse and document business, user and technical requirements.
• Facilitate workshops with senior stakeholders, service users and delivery teams.
• Develop user stories, acceptance criteria, process maps and business requirements documentation.
• Support service design and discovery activities in line with GDS standards.
• Map current and future state processes and identify opportunities for improvement.
• Collaborate closely with Product Managers, Delivery Managers, Service Designers, User Researchers and Technical Architects.
• Ensure solutions align with organisational objectives, user needs and GDS best practice.
• Support business case development, benefits realisation and organisational change initiatives.

Essential Experience

• Significant experience as a Business Analyst within GDS-aligned organisations or public sector/central government digital programmes.
• Proven track record delivering complex digital transformation projects.
• Strong experience working within Agile delivery environments.
• Experience operating within multidisciplinary product and delivery teams.
• Excellent stakeholder management skills, including engagement with senior leadership.
• Strong requirements gathering, workshop facilitation and process modelling expertise.
• Experience creating user stories, epics, acceptance criteria and managing product backlogs.
• Strong understanding of user-centred design principles and the GDS Service Standard.

Desirable

• Experience working across Discovery, Alpha, Beta and Live phases of delivery.
• Familiarity with GDS service assessments and the GDS Service Standard.
• Experience working within central government, public sector or highly regulated environments.
• BCS Business Analysis qualification or equivalent.
• Experience supporting large-scale transformation, modernisation or service redesign programmes.

Sound interesting? Please apply to hear more!