Senior Business Analyst

Senior Business Analyst (GDS) - 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!

Work arrangement
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