Business Analyst - Integration

The Boots Company PLC; Nottingham; On-site; GBP 45,000 - 65,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Boots Retirement Savings Plan

Discretionary annual bonus

Generous employee discounts

Enhanced family leave pay

Flexible benefits scheme

Job summary

Boots is seeking a Business Analyst – Integration in Nottingham to support the integrations workstream within a major HR transformation programme. You will bridge business stakeholders and technical delivery teams, document data flows, and produce clear integration requirements.

The role requires 4+ years as a BA on enterprise integration projects, knowledge of REST APIs, and experience shaping MuleSoft, Kafka, or MFT patterns.

Qualifications

• Proven experience as a Business Analyst on enterprise integration programmes.
• Strong requirements elicitation, analysis, and stakeholder management skills.
• Good understanding of REST APIs, data mapping, message structures and interface specifications.
• Ability to produce high-quality technical requirement documentation.
• Balance business requirements with technical and delivery constraints.

Responsibilities

• Work with stakeholders to understand integration requirements, document data flows and interface requirements.
• Translate business requirements into functional and technical specifications.
• Define source-to-target mappings, interface specifications and transformation requirements.
• Support design of MuleSoft, Kafka and MFT integration patterns and document API, file-based and event-driven integration requirements.
• Ensure traceability between requirements, design, testing and deployment.
• Support integration testing, defect triage and deployment activities.
• Ensure requirements support security, GDPR and enterprise integration standards.
• Communicate complex integration concepts in business-friendly language.

Skills

Enterprise integration experience

API and middleware knowledge

Data mapping and interface specs

Stakeholder management

Requirements elicitation

Tools

REST APIs

MuleSoft

Kafka

MFT

Interface patterns

Job description

Role: Business Analyst – Integration

Contract: Fixed-Term – 12 Months

Location: Nottingham, Beeston

Recruitment Partner: Kershia Broughton

What you'll be doing:

As a Business Analyst – Integration at Boots, you will play a crucial role in supporting the integrations workstream within a major HR transformation programme. Reporting to the Programme Business Analyst, the role will work closely with business stakeholders, Integration Solution Architect, HR Systems Integrator, Project Manager, and Integration Engineering teams. The role is responsible for analysing, defining and managing integration requirements required to support the implementation of HR Systems and its integration landscape. The successful candidate will have strong experience of enterprise integration projects.

The Business Analyst will act as the bridge between business stakeholders and technical delivery teams, ensuring that integration requirements are clearly understood, documented and traceable throughout the programme lifecycle.

Key responsibilities:

• Work with HR, IT, Suppliers and programme stakeholders to understand integration requirements, document data flows and interface requirements.
• Support with translation of business requirements into detailed functional and technical specifications.
• Define source-to-target mappings, interface specifications and transformation requirements.
• Support design of MuleSoft, Kafka and MFT integration patterns and document API, file-based and event-driven integration requirements.
• Ensure traceability between requirements, design, testing and deployment.
• Support integration testing, defect triage and deployment activities.
• Ensure requirements support security, GDPR and enterprise integration standards.
• Communicate complex integration concepts in business-friendly language.

What you’ll need to have (our must-haves):

• Strong experience as a Business Analyst on enterprise integration programmes involving API’s, middleware, event streaming and file-based integrations.
• Minimum of 4+ years of experience as a Business Analyst.
• Excellent requirements elicitation, analysis, and stakeholder management skills.
• Good understanding of REST APIs, integration patterns, data mapping, message structures and interface specifications.
• Ability to produce high-quality technical requirement documentation.
• Ability to balance business requirements with technical and delivery constraints.
• Ability to influence stakeholders and drive consensus.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.

It would be great if you also have:

• Experience delivering large-scale HR transformation programmes.
• Familiarity with global HR deployments across multiple geographies.
• Knowledge of various IT capabilities, methods, and technologies.

Where your brilliance can take you:

At Boots, your career as a Business Analyst – Integration can lead to exciting opportunities within our Technology team and beyond. With a focus on continuous learning and development, you will have the chance to expand your skills and take on more complex projects. As you grow, you may explore roles in project management, technical leadership, or even strategic positions that shape the future of our integration initiatives.

Rewards designed for you:

• Boots Retirement Savings Plan
• Discretionary annual bonus
• Generous employee discounts
• Enhanced maternity/paternity/adoption leave pay and gift card for anyone expecting or adopting a child
• Flexible benefits scheme including option to buy additional holiday, discounted gym membership, life assurance, activity passes and much more.
• Access to free, 24/7 counselling and support through TELUS Health, our Employee Assistance Programme.

There’s lots more in our benefits and discounts, MyBoosts – there to give you that little lift in your everyday. Find out more at http://boots.jobs/rewards. Exclusions may apply; eligible roles only.

A bit about us:

At Boots, we're proud to be an equal opportunity employer, creating a place where everyone feels welcome, supported and free to be themselves. We believe that when our people feel valued and included, they thrive, so we're committed to creating a brilliant Boots for our people so they can make a difference for our customers and colleagues every time.

Boots is a Ban the Box employer and will consider the suitability of applicants with criminal convictions on a case‑by‑case basis.