Business Continuity Analyst - End-to-End Framework Lead

Ocho People; Belfast City District; Hybrid; GBP 50,000 - 65,000; Full time

Job summary

Ocho People is seeking a Business Analyst with a strong Business Continuity focus in Belfast. You will lead the design, facilitation and delivery of a comprehensive Business Continuity framework across all directorates, working with senior leaders to create Business Impact Assessments and map critical processes.

You will translate analysis into practical continuity plans, support broader BA functions, and shape requirements for new technology solutions in a regulated environment.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of IT business analysis or business transformation/change experience.
• Experience liaising with business end users across a large organisation.
• Experience translating business requirements into system requirements.
• Experience delivering IT implementations using Agile and Waterfall methods.
• Broad technical understanding of SDLC, cloud, cybersecurity, and data protection.

Responsibilities

• Lead design, facilitation and delivery of a comprehensive Business Continuity framework across directorates.
• Facilitate workshops with senior leaders to gather continuity requirements.
• Perform Business Impact Assessments to identify critical services and recovery priorities.
• Map critical processes and dependencies across people, technology, facilities, suppliers and data.
• Define and validate recovery time/objectives and minimum service levels.
• Identify resilience gaps and risks; recommend improvements to existing arrangements.
• Translate outputs into clear Business Continuity Plans, procedures and maps.
• Align continuity requirements with incident response and service recovery plans.
• Define plan ownership, roles, responsibilities, escalation routes and governance.
• Support scenario-based exercises and track improvement actions to completion.
• Assist translation of wider business requirements into system requirements for new tech solutions.

Skills

Stakeholder liaison

Business analysis

Process mapping

Agile methodologies

Waterfall methodologies

IT governance

Job description

Ocho People is seeking a Business Analyst with a strong Business Continuity focus in Belfast. You will lead the design, facilitation and delivery of a comprehensive Business Continuity framework across all directorates, working with senior leaders to create Business Impact Assessments and map critical processes.

You will translate analysis into practical continuity plans, support broader BA functions, and shape requirements for new technology solutions in a regulated environment.