Business Ananlyst - Security Cleared

ISx4 Group; United Kingdom; Remote; GBP 45,000 - 65,000; Full time

Job summary

ISx4 Group is seeking an experienced Business Analyst to support a complex data and analytics solution within a secure UK public sector environment. You will elicit requirements, translate business needs into clear functional and data requirements, and support delivery and testing across a multidisciplinary team.

Active UK Security Clearance is required, with strong communication skills and experience in agile or hybrid delivery.

Qualifications

• Active UK Security Clearance required.
• Experience as a Business Analyst on complex software, data or analytics projects.
• Strong requirements elicitation, analysis and documentation skills.
• Experience translating business needs into clear functional and technical requirements.
• Strong stakeholder management and communication skills.
• Experience with Agile or hybrid delivery methodologies.
• Ability to work in secure, regulated or public sector environments.

Responsibilities

• Elicit, analyse and document business, functional and non-functional requirements.
• Translate operational needs into clear delivery requirements with stakeholders.
• Capture and refine data requirements, business rules and decisioning logic.
• Support risk rules, alert criteria and processing requirements.
• Produce user stories, acceptance criteria, maps and docs.
• Work with technical teams to ensure requirements are understood and implemented.
• Maintain requirements traceability throughout delivery lifecycle.
• Support backlog refinement and sprint planning.

Skills

Requirements elicitation

Stakeholder management

Agile delivery

Business analysis

Communication skills

Data analysis

Multidisciplinary teams

Documentation

Tools

SAS

SAS Viya

SQL

Job description

Job Role

We are seeking an experienced Business Analyst to support the delivery of a complex data and analytics solution within a secure UK public sector environment.The role will focus on requirements elicitation, translating business and operational needs into clear functional and data requirements, and supporting delivery and testing across a multidisciplinary project team.Due to the nature of the engagement, candidates must hold active UK Security Clearance.

Key Responsibilities

• Elicit, analyse and document business, functional and non-functional requirements.
• Work with business users and subject matter experts to understand operational processes and translate them into clear delivery requirements.
• Capture and refine data requirements, business rules and decisioning logic.
• Support the definition of risk rules, alert criteria and associated processing requirements.
• Produce user stories, acceptance criteria, process maps and requirements documentation.
• Work closely with technical teams to ensure requirements are understood and implemented correctly.
• Support solution design by clarifying business processes, data flows and operational needs.
• Maintain requirements traceability throughout the delivery lifecycle.
• Support backlog refinement, sprint planning and other Agile delivery activities.
• Identify and manage requirements-related risks, assumptions, issues and dependencies.
• Support testing activities including test planning, test case definition and defect triage.
• Coordinate with business users and delivery teams during system and user acceptance testing.
• Support the definition of investigation workflows, case management processes and user interactions.
• Facilitate workshops, stakeholder interviews and requirements walkthroughs.
• Provide clear and concise updates to project and stakeholder groups.

Key Requirements

• Active UK Security Clearance.
• Proven experience working as a Business Analyst on complex software, data or analytics projects.
• Strong requirements elicitation, analysis and documentation skills.
• Experience translating business needs into clear functional and technical requirements.
• Strong stakeholder management and communication skills.
• Experience working with multidisciplinary delivery teams including developers, testers and project managers.
• Experience creating user stories, acceptance criteria, process flows and requirements documentation.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Experience supporting testing and defect resolution activities.
• Good understanding of the software development lifecycle.
• Experience working within Agile or hybrid delivery methodologies.
• Ability to work effectively within secure, regulated or public sector environments.

Nice to Have

• Experience delivering data and analytics solutions.
• Experience working with fraud, compliance, risk or rules-based decisioning solutions.
• Experience eliciting and documenting business rules or risk rules.
• Experience defining data requirements for ETL, data integration or data engineering solutions.
• Experience leading or coordinating system and user acceptance testing.
• Experience working with SAS technologies.
• Experience with SAS Viya or other enterprise analytics platforms.
• Experience with case management, workflow or investigation systems.
• Experience working within UK Government.
• Familiarity with SQL or the ability to interrogate data to support requirements analysis.
• Experience working across multiple suppliers, partners or delivery organisations.