Business Analyst

Anglian Water Services Ltd; Lincoln, Huntingdon; Hybrid; GBP 41,000 - 50,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

26 days annual leave + holidays

Flexible working

Private healthcare

Pension scheme with 7% employer match

Life assurance

Annual bonus

Personal accident cover

Virtual GP service

Job summary

Anglian Water is seeking an experienced Business Analyst to join the Performance team. This role focuses on delivering clear, detailed upfront requirements within Waterfall projects, bridging stakeholders and delivery teams, and ensuring solutions meet business needs through robust requirements management.

The position offers hybrid working, 37 hours per week, with offices in Lincoln or Huntingdon. Closing date 15 November 2026 and a competitive package starting at £45,500 depending on skills

Qualifications

• Proven Business Analyst experience within Waterfall project environments and detailed upfront requirements documentation.
• Strong stakeholder engagement, ability to bring structure to ambiguous work, and experience mapping processes.

Responsibilities

• Leading requirements elicitation and analysis activities, workshops and stakeholder engagement sessions.
• Producing high-quality business analysis artefacts and detailed upfront requirements documentation.
• Creating and maintaining requirements traceability.
• Defining and validating functional and non-functional requirements including security, performance, usability and reporting.
• Supporting testing and user acceptance activities.

Skills

Stakeholder engagement

Process mapping

Requirement elicitation

BPMN 2.0

Education

BCS Business Analysis qualification

Job description

Starting from £45,500, salary depending on skills and experience 37 hours a week, Permanent Lincoln or Huntingdon office / Hybrid working Love Every Drop. At Anglian Water, we’re transforming the way we deliver services for our customers, communities and the environment.

To support this, we’re looking for an experienced Business Analyst to join our Performance team. We’re looking for a structured, detail-oriented Business Analyst with proven experience delivering business analysis within Waterfall project environments, who can bring clarity, challenge and insight to complex pieces of work. You’ll be confident engaging with stakeholders, understanding business problems, analysing processes, shaping requirements, and supporting delivery teams to design and validate solutions that meet real business needs.

What You’ll Be Doing

As a Business Analyst, you’ll support the successful delivery of projects through the capture, analysis and management of business and technical requirements. Acting as the bridge between stakeholders and delivery teams, you’ll ensure solutions are aligned to business needs and provide clear direction throughout delivery.

Responsibilities

• Leading requirements elicitation and analysis activities, workshops and stakeholder engagement sessions.
• Producing high-quality business analysis artefacts and detailed upfront requirements documentation.
• Creating and maintaining requirements traceability throughout the project lifecycle.
• Identifying opportunities to improve processes and deliver better business outcomes.
• Developing AS-IS and TO-BE process maps using BPMN 2.0 standards.
• Defining and validating both functional and non-functional requirements, including security, performance, usability and reporting requirements.
• Supporting solution design reviews to ensure requirements are fully understood and met.
• Supporting testing, business validation and user acceptance testing activities.
• Managing requirements throughout the project lifecycle in a controlled and structured manner.
• Working collaboratively with stakeholders, architects, project managers, technical teams and business subject matter experts.

Essential Experience

Proven Business Analyst experience within Waterfall project environments, including producing detailed upfront requirements documentation and maintaining traceability. Agile experience is welcome, but candidates must also have demonstrable Waterfall delivery experience. Significant experience eliciting, analysing, validating, and documenting detailed upfront requirements, supported by high-quality business analysis artefacts. Experience managing requirements throughout the full project lifecycle, including maintaining traceability and supporting controlled change. Experience validating solution designs against agreed business and functional requirements. Ability to work independently, manage their own workload, and bring structure and clarity to ambiguous or complex pieces of work. Strong process mapping experience, specifically using BPMN 2.0. Experience facilitating requirements workshops and stakeholder engagement sessions. Confidence working with business stakeholders and technical/delivery teams to ensure requirements are understood, agreed, and delivered. Experience defining and validating non-functional requirements, such as security, performance, usability, and reporting. Experience supporting testing and business validation activities to ensure solutions meet agreed requirements.

Desirable

BCS Business Analysis qualification. Experience working within a regulated environment where governance, assurance and documentation standards are critical. Experience supporting large-scale business transformation initiatives. Experience working within utility, infrastructure or similarly regulated sectors.

Benefits

• 26 days annual leave plus bank holidays (increasing with length of service)
• Flexible working options
• Private healthcare
• Competitive pension scheme
• Anglian Water double-matches contributions up to 7%
• Life assurance at eight times your salary
• Annual bonus scheme
• Personal accident cover
• Virtual GP service

Why Apply?

This is a fantastic opportunity to work on projects that make a real difference across Anglian Water. You’ll help shape solutions from the outset, influence key business decisions and ensure successful delivery through robust requirements management and stakeholder collaboration. If you’re a highly organised Business Analyst who thrives on bringing structure, clarity and insight to complex challenges, we’d love to hear from you.

Closing date: 15/11/2026

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