Business Analyst

Forward Role; Milton Keynes; Hybrid; GBP 65,000 - 85,000; Full time

Job summary

Forward Role is seeking a Business Analyst with experience in UK government, defence, or intelligence environments. Hybrid role based in Milton Keynes or Cheltenham, offering a clear path to influence from day one.

You will shape how complex, mission-critical products are built, working with customers and delivery teams to translate operational needs into outcomes. Expect hands-on analysis across requirements discovery, backlog management, and stakeholder workshops in a fast-paced delivery

Qualifications

• Experience in UK security, defence, or classified government environments.
• Experience with business analysis, product management, and Agile delivery.
• Hands-on Scrum or Kanban delivery and backlog refinement.

Responsibilities

• Lead requirements discovery across business, user, data, and technical needs.
• Write user stories, acceptance criteria, and process maps for engineering and data teams.
• Own and refine product backlogs and support prioritisation with product owners.

Skills

UK security & intelligence experience

Agile delivery

Stakeholder facilitation

Backlog management

Scrum

Tools

Scrum

Job description

Are you a Business Analyst who's operated inside UK government, defence, or intelligence environments? This is a rare opportunity to join a growing consultancy at the forefront of secure digital delivery, in a brand-new position with real influence from day one.

Business Analyst

Location - Milton Keynes or Cheltenham (hybrid)

Salary - £65,000 - £85,000 + DV Bonus + benefits

Clearance - You are required to hold an active eDV level security clearance.

The opportunity

You won't be filling a seat. You'll be shaping how complex, mission-critical products get built, working directly with customers and delivery teams to translate classified operational needs into outcomes that matter. You'll be embedded in Agile delivery teams, working directly with customers, product owners, and technical specialists to translate complex mission needs into clear, actionable outcomes. This isn't a back-office BA role, you'll be hands-on, visible, and central to delivery. From requirements discovery and backlog management to stakeholder workshops and continuous improvement, you'll own the full analysis lifecycle in one of the most operationally significant delivery environments in the UK.

Role duties

• Lead requirements discovery - eliciting, analysing, and validating business, user, data, and technical needs across complex delivery programmes.
• Write sharp user stories, acceptance criteria, and process maps that engineering, design, and data teams can actually work from.
• Own and continuously refine product backlogs, supporting prioritisation with product owners based on mission value and delivery constraints.

• Run stakeholder workshops and governance forums, turning competing views into shared understanding and clear decisions.
• Sit at the centre of Agile ceremonies, sprint planning, refinement, reviews, retros and drive continuous improvement in how teams work.

• Bridge the gap between business intent and technical delivery, managing dependencies, assumptions, and requirements changes throughout.

Essential skills/experience

• Experience working in UK Security & Intelligence, defence, or classified government environments.
• Business analysis, product management, and Agile delivery across multidisciplinary teams.
• Hands-on Scrum or Kanban delivery, sprint ceremonies, backlog refinement, reviews and retrospectives.
• Ability to engage, challenge, and facilitate across technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Comfortable working alongside software engineering, data, DevOps, and UX teams.
• Workflow analysis, business rules capture, and requirements traceability through change control.