Senior Business Analyst

AWTG Ltd; Greater London; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 85,000; Full time

Job summary

AWTG Ltd is seeking a Senior Business Analyst in Greater London to lead analysis on complex projects. You will connect multidisciplinary teams to ensure business and user needs are effectively prioritized and met.

Essential skills include strong business analysis experience and facilitation of workshops. Desirable experience includes mentoring and familiarity with tools like Jira and Confluence. This role is integral to delivering practical outcomes for clients, enhancing the quality of project delivery.

Qualifications

• Strong business analysis experience within digital, software or business transformation projects.
• Ability to lead complex requirements elicitation, validation, prioritisation and traceability.
• Strong facilitation and stakeholder management skills, including difficult discussions.

Responsibilities

• Lead discovery and analysis activities to understand business problems and user needs.
• Define, validate and manage requirements and user stories.
• Facilitate workshops and manage stakeholder relationships.

Skills

Business analysis experience

Requirements elicitation

Stakeholder management

Agile delivery understanding

Tools

Jira

Confluence

BPMN

UML

Job description

Role overview

Senior Business Analyst will lead analysis on large or complex projects, ensuring business and user needs are understood, prioritised and translated into actionable requirements. The role supports effective delivery by connecting stakeholders, users, technology and process change. You will work with multidisciplinary teams across data, AI, software engineering, product, QA and delivery to create practical outcomes for clients and end users.

Key responsibilities

• Lead discovery and analysis activities to understand business problems, user needs and root causes.
• Define, validate and manage requirements, user stories, acceptance criteria and non-functional requirements.
• Create business models, process maps, system analysis outputs and change impact assessments.
• Facilitate workshops, manage stakeholder relationships and resolve conflicts between competing needs.
• Work with product, UX, architecture, development, QA and delivery teams to ensure solutions meet agreed needs.
• Support testing activities by ensuring business scenarios and acceptance criteria are clear and traceable.

Essential Skills And Experience

• Strong business analysis experience within digital, software or business transformation projects.
• Ability to lead complex requirements elicitation, validation, prioritisation and traceability.
• Experience using business modelling, process improvement and option analysis techniques.
• Strong facilitation and stakeholder management skills, including difficult discussions and prioritisation decisions.
• Good understanding of Agile delivery and how business analysis supports iterative delivery.
• Ability to assess system, data and process impacts and communicate them clearly.

Desirable Skills And Experience

• Experience mentoring junior business analysts or managing BA workstreams.
• Experience with Jira, Confluence, Miro, BPMN, UML, service blueprints or journey maps.
• Experience supporting public‑sector, regulated or client‑facing projects.

What success looks like

• Requirements are clear, prioritised, traceable and ready for delivery.
• Stakeholders understand decisions, trade‑offs and expected benefits.
• Business analysis outputs reduce ambiguity and improve delivery quality.