Business Analyst

Homes England; Leeds; Hybrid; GBP 30,000 - 50,000; Full time

Job summary

A government agency is seeking an experienced Business Analyst to join their Digital Delivery team. You will contribute to creating modern digital services that enhance the housing market. The role involves collaborating with multiple stakeholders and managing user-focused projects. The ideal candidate will excel in agile and waterfall methodologies, demonstrate team collaboration skills, and possess a relevant IT qualification. A competitive salary and hybrid working options are offered.

Benefits

33 days annual leave

Employee assistance program

Financial wellbeing support

Membership fees for professional bodies

Qualifications

• Experience as a Business Analyst and knowledge of IT.
• Ability to work with multi-disciplinary teams.
• Comfortable with user-focused product development.

Responsibilities

• Lead collaborative development of user stories.
• Support the team in managing a complex backlog.
• Work with senior stakeholders to deliver successful outcomes.

Skills

Collaboration

Stakeholder management

Agile methodology

Waterfall methodology

Backlog management

Education

Relevant IT qualification or equivalent experience

Job description

Business Analyst

Application closing date: 03/02/2026 at 23:59

Interview dates: W/C - 19/02/2026

Please note that there are two Fixed Term Contract (FTC) roles available, both until 31 March 2028.

Location: Based in any of the following office on hybrid basis: Birmingham, Bristol, Leeds, Liverpool, Manchester, Newcastle or Northstowe.

A bit about the role

Working in the team with Michael our Lead Business Analyst, Ollie and Carol our Senior Business Analysts and our community of Business Analysts you will play a critical role in Digital Delivery. You will be joining our small but friendly team, which is committed to making positive changes for all our users. Michael believes in working in a Collaborative and flexible way to foster good decision-making and problem-solving within the team.

We believe that it’s critical that people continue to learn and develop, we align our roles to the Digital Data and Technology (DDAT) framework and have career pathways in place to ensure you will always understand your next step, and, we have a training plan in place to make sure that it happens.

We are looking for an experienced business analyst to join our team to help us meet our ambitions of ensuring Homes England has a strong basic infrastructure supported by good governance; and our digital services are genuinely modern, agile and effective drivers in the housing market.

This is an exciting opportunity in our business analysis profession making a real difference in our Digital Delivery team. These are exciting times in Digital Delivery at Homes England. We have a clear vision - to develop digitally enabled systems and services that work more simply for users - and we’re looking for talented people to help us achieve it.

A bit about you

As an experienced Business Analyst and an IT professional, you’ll understand how to manage colleagues and be able to demonstrate you can work with others as part of a team in a collaborative, inclusive way. You will be able to work with senior stakeholders.

We will support you ensuring you will be comfortable supporting a multi-disciplinary team’s complex backlog delivering user-focused products through collaboratively developed user stories. You will be flexible, able to switch between agile and waterfall projects, and self-assured supporting Homes England with procuring and adopting new products and services.

As a Business Analyst, joining us on this you will be expected to demonstrate you meet the skills and expertise required of the Digital Data and Technology frameworks specification for a business analyst as laid out in the attached job description.

Who are we

Homes England

The Housing and Regeneration Agency

We believe that affordable, quality homes in well-designed places are key to improving people’s lives. As the government’s housing and regeneration agency, we create thriving new places and transform urban areas, combining the full breadth of our powers, expertise, land, capital and influence to bring investment to communities and get more homes built.

How? We form long-term partnerships that bridge the gap between the public and private sector to meet local needs and aspirations. We use our influence to champion the creation of sustainable homes, communities and places that are brilliantly designed for the people that live there now, and in the future. And we use our funding and support to build a more resilient, diverse and innovative housing sector, helping new entrants in the market, encouraging modern methods of construction and design, and promoting the utmost attention to building safety.

Together with our partners, we’re accelerating the pace of house building, remediation and regeneration across the country, as we seek to deliver ever more affordable homes in places people are proud to call home for generations to come.

What we offer

As well as a competitive salary and 33 days annual leave, we are committed to hybrid working. We’ll support you, wherever possible, so that you don’t miss out on what matters to you.

Internal applicants: please note that if you are successful, the salary you are offered will be in accordance with our pay controls and pay policy. You can find these on the recruitment pages of the intranet.

If you ever need a bit of extra help, we have a great employee assistance programme, financial wellbeing support and access to many great discounts with leading high street names.

Our range of network groups are also there to support you to be yourself at work and play a key role in helping shape our future.

If you are a member of a professional body, we’ll pay for your membership and once you get your digital kit, you’ll be good to go.

Homes England are a geographically diverse community. We were all working from home during the pandemic and have since moved to a hybrid model, moving back into our office environments and utilising our space and time together in the most conducive way.

We also encourage you to apply using the full application option as opposed to quick apply, this is especially important if you would like to indicate to us that you would like to be considered under the disability confident scheme.

If your application is shortlisted to interview we will require you to provide proof of your right to work in the UK at that stage.