Business Analyst - SC Cleared - AWS

Henderson Scott; City Of London; Remote; GBP 92,000 - 97,000; Full time

Job summary

Henderson Scott seeks an SC-cleared Senior Business Analyst to drive a high-impact AWS transformation and cloud re-architecture project. You will bridge business, operational, and technical teams to ensure target architectures deliver measurable value, efficiency, and enhanced security.

Responsibilities include mapping current capabilities, defining TOMs with architects, managing dependencies and risks, and facilitating workshops with stakeholders.

Qualifications

• Security Clearance: Must hold active SC Clearance.
• Transformation experience delivering business architecture or senior business analysis within large-scale technology transformations (cloud migration, infrastructure transformation, or platform modernization).
• Experience creating and establishing Target Operating Models (TOMs) alongside capability modelling and process mapping.
• Exceptional workshop facilitation and communication skills bridging architects/engineers and senior business leaders.
• Ability to manage and trace requirements across multiple delivery teams and external suppliers.

Responsibilities

• Document current-state business capabilities, services, processes and operating models.
• Collaborate with technical architects to define future-state operating models (TOM).
• Identify cross-programme dependencies, risks, and assumptions and capture them clearly.
• Lead workshops across business, operations, security, and engineering teams to align stakeholders.
• Produce business cases, options assessments, and impact analyses to support migration, remediation, and simplification decisions.
• Maintain end-to-end traceability between business outcomes and technical deliverables while driving operational change readiness.

Skills

Stakeholder management

Workshop facilitation

Requirements tracing

Analytical thinking

Cross-team collaboration

Tools

EA repositories

Modelling tools

Job description

Senior Business Analyst (AWS Transformation)

Location: Fully Remote (UK-based)

Rate: £500 - £525/day (Inside IR35)

Clearance: Active SC Clearance Required

Contract Duration: Initial 6-month contract

Role Overview

Are you an SC-cleared Senior Business Analyst looking to drive high-impact cloud transformation? We are seeking an experienced professional to support a major AWS re-architecture and technical debt reduction programme.

In this role, you will bridge the gap between business, operational, and technical teams to ensure target architectures deliver measurable business value, operational efficiency, and enhanced security.

Key Responsibilities

• Capability & Process Mapping: Document current-state business capabilities, services, processes, and operating models.
• Target Operating Model (TOM): Collaborate closely with technical architects to define and agree on future-state operating models.
• Dependency & Risk Management: Identify cross-programme and supplier dependencies, capturing key requirements, constraints, risks, and assumptions.
• Stakeholder Facilitation: Lead dynamic workshops across business, operational, security, and engineering teams to align stakeholders.
• Prioritisation & Impact Analysis: Produce business cases, options assessments, and impact analyses to support migration, remediation, and simplification decisions.
• Traceability & Change Readiness: Maintain end-to-end traceability between business outcomes and technical deliverables while driving operational change readiness.

Key Requirements

Essential:

• Security Clearance: Must hold active SC Clearance.
• Transformation Experience: Proven track record delivering business architecture or senior business analysis within large-scale technology transformations (cloud migration, infrastructure transformation, or platform modernisation).
• Target Operating Models: Demonstrable experience creating and establishing TOMs alongside capability modelling and process mapping.
• Stakeholder Management: Exceptional workshop facilitation and communication skills, with the ability to confidently bridge technical teams (architects, engineers) and senior business leaders.
• Multi-Team Delivery: Strong analytical ability to manage and trace requirements across multiple delivery teams and external suppliers.

Desirable:

• Certification or practical knowledge of BIZBOK or equivalent business architecture methodologies.
• Practical familiarity with AWS cloud transformation environments.
• Hands-on experience working within government or regulated sectors.
• Experience using enterprise architecture repositories and modelling tools.

Expected Outcomes

• Agreed current-state and future-state operating models.
• Clear visibility and mapping of business and operational impacts.
• Well-structured requirements directly guiding architecture and delivery decisions.
• Seamless alignment between core business objectives and technical AWS delivery.