Business Analyst

Xist4 IT Limited.; Cheltenham; On-site; GBP 45,000 - 65,000; Full time

Job summary

Xist4 IT Limited in Cheltenham is seeking a hands-on Business Analyst to work in secure, government-facing projects.

You will gather and translate requirements into user stories, map current and future processes, and support delivery from discovery through live operation.

This on-site role requires active eDV clearance and a proven track record in regulated settings, delivering clear evidence-based solutions.

Qualifications

• Active eDV security clearance.
• Experience as Business Analyst in consultancy, government or regulated setting.
• Capture requirements: user stories, use cases, specifications and acceptance criteria.
• Plan and run workshops and stakeholder interviews.
• Delivery in Agile, Waterfall or hybrid environments.
• Existing right to work in the UK.

Responsibilities

• Capture needs from government/regulated clients and translate into actionable requirements.
• Map current processes and design future state with gap analysis and option papers.
• Support solution design, testing, UAT and business readiness; raise risks and assumptions.

Skills

Active eDV security clearance

Experience as Business Analyst in govt

Workshops and interviews

Process modelling (current and future)

Delivery in Agile/Waterfall/hybrid

UAT and testing support

Job description

Business Analyst | eDV, Requirements, Process Mapping, Workshops | Cheltenham

£45,000 to £65,000. Permanent.
Cheltenham. Fully on-site.

You’ll sit in the room while a government or regulated client explains what they need, then walk out with requirements a technical team can actually build. And you’ll stay with it until it’s live and working.

Our client is a technical, data and management consultancy based in Cheltenham. They work for UK Government departments and for businesses in sensitive, heavily regulated industries, mostly on data management, digital transformation and cloud. Their consultants scope and deliver programmes that run for years, not weeks. Your work changes how public services run, for clients who expect you to spot the gap between what they asked for and what they need.

The work happens in secure environments, which is why active eDV is a must. You’ll be part of mixed delivery teams: technical specialists, delivery leads, testers and the client’s own people. Some programmes are Agile, some Waterfall, plenty are both.

You might explain the same problem to a senior official and a developer in one afternoon, and both need to leave clear. The honest constraint: if you don’t hold active eDV today, we can’t consider you, however strong the rest of your CV. The client also needs your experience to come from consultancy, government, defence, security or another regulated setting, so this isn’t a first step into that world.

The job

Requirements. Planning and running workshops, interviews and stakeholder sessions, then turning what you hear into user stories, use cases, specifications and acceptance criteria. You keep traceability from discovery to delivery.
Process. Mapping how things work now and how they should work. Capability assessments, gap analysis and option papers that make a recommendation and back it with evidence.
Delivery. You don't hand over and walk off. You support solution design, testing, user acceptance testing and business readiness, and you raise risks, dependencies and assumptions before they bite.

What you'll bring

Essential:

• Active eDV security clearance.
• Business analysis in consultancy, government, defence, security or another regulated setting.
• Requirements you've owned: user stories, use cases, specifications and acceptance criteria.
• Workshops and interviews you've planned and run yourself.
• Process modelling, current and future state.
• Delivery in Agile, Waterfall or hybrid teams.
• Support for testing, UAT and business readiness.
• Existing right to work in the UK.

Useful:

business architecture, service design, continuous improvement methods, benefits realisation.

Who this suits

You’ve probably been a Business Analyst, Senior Business Analyst or Requirements Analyst, in a consultancy, a government department or a defence supplier. You’re the one who asks the awkward question in the workshop because the answer changes the design.

If you'd rather analyse numbers than people, or a room full of senior officials sounds more like dread than a normal Tuesday, this isn't the one.

Leté talk

We welcome applicants from every background and will support reasonable adjustments.