Business Analyst

Cloud Decisions; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 50,000 - 83,000; Full time

Job summary

Cloud Decisions is seeking an experienced Business Analyst to lead a data platform transformation for an 11-day engagement in London, with hybrid working. The role focuses on turning ambiguous data and process requirements into clear, actionable deliverables and governance outputs.

You will run discovery sessions, document current and future-state processes, data flows, and requirements, and collaborate with data engineers and architects to validate acceptance criteria.

Qualifications

• Five+ years of Business Analysis experience.
• Experience supporting data, analytics or platform-transformation programmes.
• Strong workshop facilitation and stakeholder-management skills.
• Experience documenting complex business processes and data flows.
• Solid understanding of data governance, lineage, quality and ownership.

Responsibilities

• Lead discovery workshops with stakeholders across operations, forecasting, product, IT and data.
• Capture current-state processes, systems, workflows and data flows.
• Identify bottlenecks, manual processes, risks and improvements.
• Develop future-state processes and operating-model recommendations.
• Gather and document functional, non-functional and business requirements.
• Produce process maps, BPMN diagrams and data-flow diagrams.
• Analyse data ownership, quality, stewardship, lineage, metadata and governance.
• Support data dictionaries, business glossaries, KPI definitions and data-quality rules.
• Work with architects and data engineers to validate requirements and define acceptance criteria.
• Facilitate playback sessions and secure stakeholder agreement on deliverables.
• Support UAT, business readiness and solution validation.

Skills

Workshop facilitation

Stakeholder management

Data governance

Data lineage

Requirements gathering

Process mapping

Delivery documentation

Job description

Business Analyst – Data Platform Transformation

Contract: 11 days, delivered on a non-consecutive basis

Rate: Up to £450 per day

Location: London / Hybrid

An 11-day contract but a genuinely important piece of work.

We’re supporting one of the UK’s most respected Azure specialist MSPs as they shape a strategic data platform transformation programme.

They need an experienced Business Analyst who can get up to speed quickly, lead focused discovery sessions and bring structure to a complex environment involving legacy systems, undocumented processes and significant volumes of data.

You’ll bridge the gap between operational stakeholders and technical delivery teams—turning ambiguous requirements into clear process maps, data requirements and actionable recommendations that will directly influence the future platform design.

What You’ll Be Doing

• Leading discovery workshops with operational, forecasting, product, IT and data stakeholders.
• Capturing current-state processes, systems, workflows and data flows.
• Identifying bottlenecks, manual processes, risks and improvement opportunities.
• Developing future-state processes and operating-model recommendations.
• Gathering and documenting functional, non-functional and business requirements.
• Producing process maps, BPMN diagrams, data-flow diagrams, user stories and requirements backlogs.
• Analysing data ownership, quality, stewardship, lineage, metadata and governance requirements.
• Supporting the creation of data dictionaries, business glossaries, KPI definitions and data-quality rules.
• Working with architects and data engineers to validate requirements and define acceptance criteria.
• Facilitating playback sessions and securing stakeholder agreement on key deliverables.
• Supporting UAT, business readiness and solution validation where required.

Your outputs are likely to include:

• Discovery and gap-analysis reports.
• Current and future-state process documentation.
• Business requirements and user stories.
• Business process and data-flow diagrams.
• Data lineage and governance documentation.
• Data dictionaries and business glossaries.
• Stakeholder analysis and acceptance criteria.
• Business-readiness recommendations.

What We’re Looking For

• At least five years’ Business Analysis experience.
• Previous experience supporting data, analytics or platform-transformation programmes.
• Strong workshop facilitation and stakeholder-management skills.
• Experience documenting complex business processes and data flows.
• A solid understanding of data governance, lineage, quality and ownership.
• The ability to translate between business stakeholders, architects and engineering teams.
• Experience producing structured, delivery-ready documentation.
• Confidence operating in ambiguous environments with legacy systems and limited existing documentation.
• Availability to complete an 11-day, non-consecutive engagement.

Exposure to any of the following would be beneficial:

• Microsoft Fabric.
• Microsoft Purview.
• Data warehousing.
• Power BI.
• Data migration or modernisation.
• Data lifecycle and governance frameworks.
• Telecommunications, research or data-product environments.

This would suit a senior Business Analyst who enjoys complex discovery work, knows how to uncover hidden dependencies and can quickly turn stakeholder knowledge into practical deliverables.