Senior Business Analyst (contract X 2)
- Public Sector Data Transformation
- Rate: £460 per day (inside IR35)
- Duration: 3 months contract, extension likely
- Location: Newcastle or Manchester
- Working pattern:1-2 days per week in the office
- Clearance: BPSS
We’re looking for two Senior Business Analysts to join a respected consultancy team delivering meaningful work for a high-profile digital service. You’ll be based in Newcastle or Manchester, working closely with multidisciplinary teams on the next phase of a Data Strategy and Data Platform – defining the North Star vision, future capabilities, data onboarding, and a new data governance framework.
Essential requirements
- Recent (within the past 2 years) experience as a Business Analyst/Senior BA within UK central government
- Experience translating customer needs into data logic (measures, dimensions, attributes) with business definitions and sourcing rules
- Basic data profiling and analysis skills to assess data sources and quality
- Strong communication skills, both written and verbal
- Comfortable working closely with digital, technical, and strategic teams
- Able to build effective relationships across multi-functional teams
- Right to work in the UK
The role involves
- Requirements elicitation in a strategic setting to shape direction and remove ambiguity
- Stakeholder engagement across multi-disciplinary functions (Solution Architects, Product Leads, etc.)
- Development of business needs and use cases to frame data platform capabilities
- Options analysis and shaping strategic data choices
- Translating business requirements into clear data-focused deliverables
- Supporting agile/strategic delivery through strong analysis and documentation
- Working closely with technical stakeholders to maintain strategic alignment
- Identifying process/data improvements and practical data solutions
- Contributing to data strategy development and governance frameworks
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