Energy Grid Transformation Business Analyst

GIS Recruiter Ltd; City Of London; On-site; GBP 55,000 - 75,000; Full time

Job summary

GIS Recruiter Ltd in City of London is recruiting a Business Analyst to support a utility transformation programme in Energy / Smart Grid. You will define requirements for EMS capabilities and related operational applications, working with users, power system specialists and technical teams.

The role requires experience in utilities or energy, strong elicitation and documentation skills, and a track record of delivering clear, testable requirements across delivery lifecycles.

Qualifications

• Proven BA on complex technology or transformation programmes.
• Experience in electricity utilities or energy environment.
• Strong elicitation, analysis, documentation, validation skills.
• Experience mapping current and future processes and gap analysis.
• Able to translate operational needs into clear, testable requirements.
• Experience facilitating workshops and achieving stakeholder alignment.

Responsibilities

• Plan and facilitate workshops, interviews and walkthroughs with stakeholders.
• Analyse processes, usage, challenges, and identify gaps.
• Define future processes, including role changes and information flows.
• Capture and document business, functional and non‑functional requirements.
• Produce process maps, use cases, user stories, and business rules with acceptance criteria.
• Clarify technical requirements with EMS/SCADA analysts and power specialists.
• Identify data and reporting needs and coordinate with data/integration teams.
• Maintain requirements traceability from objectives through design, testing and release.
• Assess change requests for impact on processes and systems.
• Review proposed solutions and supplier specs against business needs.
• Support UAT with business scenarios and defect clarification.
• Coordinate training and communications with change/readiness teams.

Skills

Requirements elicitation

Stakeholder management

Process mapping

Gap analysis

Document requirements

Delivery lifecycles

Workshop facilitation

Communication skills

Tools

BPMN

Visio

Jira

Azure DevOps

Job description

GIS Recruiter Ltd in City of London is recruiting a Business Analyst to support a utility transformation programme in Energy / Smart Grid. You will define requirements for EMS capabilities and related operational applications, working with users, power system specialists and technical teams.

The role requires experience in utilities or energy, strong elicitation and documentation skills, and a track record of delivering clear, testable requirements across delivery lifecycles.