Senior BA - Data Platform Transformation, Hybrid

Cloud Decisions; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 50,000 - 83,000; Full time

Job summary

Cloud Decisions is seeking an experienced Business Analyst to lead a data platform transformation for an 11-day engagement in London, with hybrid working. The role focuses on turning ambiguous data and process requirements into clear, actionable deliverables and governance outputs.

You will run discovery sessions, document current and future-state processes, data flows, and requirements, and collaborate with data engineers and architects to validate acceptance criteria.

Qualifications

• Five+ years of Business Analysis experience.
• Experience supporting data, analytics or platform-transformation programmes.
• Strong workshop facilitation and stakeholder-management skills.
• Experience documenting complex business processes and data flows.
• Solid understanding of data governance, lineage, quality and ownership.

Responsibilities

• Lead discovery workshops with stakeholders across operations, forecasting, product, IT and data.
• Capture current-state processes, systems, workflows and data flows.
• Identify bottlenecks, manual processes, risks and improvements.
• Develop future-state processes and operating-model recommendations.
• Gather and document functional, non-functional and business requirements.
• Produce process maps, BPMN diagrams and data-flow diagrams.
• Analyse data ownership, quality, stewardship, lineage, metadata and governance.
• Support data dictionaries, business glossaries, KPI definitions and data-quality rules.
• Work with architects and data engineers to validate requirements and define acceptance criteria.
• Facilitate playback sessions and secure stakeholder agreement on deliverables.
• Support UAT, business readiness and solution validation.

Skills

Workshop facilitation

Stakeholder management

Data governance

Data lineage

Requirements gathering

Process mapping

Delivery documentation

Job description

Cloud Decisions is seeking an experienced Business Analyst to lead a data platform transformation for an 11-day engagement in London, with hybrid working. The role focuses on turning ambiguous data and process requirements into clear, actionable deliverables and governance outputs.

You will run discovery sessions, document current and future-state processes, data flows, and requirements, and collaborate with data engineers and architects to validate acceptance criteria.