Senior Business Analyst

Forward Role Secure; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 67,000 - 107,000; Full time

Job summary

Forward Role Secure is seeking a Senior Business Analyst in London for a hybrid delivery role embedded within Agile delivery teams serving customers and product owners on mission-critical digital projects.

The successful candidate will lead requirements discovery, write precise user stories and acceptance criteria, refine backlogs, and facilitate governance forums while bridging business intent with technical delivery. A UK security clearance is required.

Qualifications

• Experience in UK security, intelligence, or classified government environments.
• Experience in business analysis, product management, and Agile delivery across multidisciplinary teams.
• Hands-on Scrum or Kanban delivery with ceremonies and backlog refinement.
• Strong stakeholder engagement and facilitation across technical and non-technical teams.
• Experience working with software engineering, data, DevOps, and UX teams.
• Workflow analysis and requirements traceability through change control.
• Active eDV level security clearance required.

Responsibilities

• Lead requirements discovery across complex delivery programmes.
• Write user stories, acceptance criteria, and process maps for engineers and data teams.
• Own and refine product backlogs and prioritise with product owners.
• Run stakeholder workshops and governance forums to align views.
• Sit at centre of Agile ceremonies and drive continuous improvement.
• Bridge business intent and technical delivery, managing dependencies and changes.

Skills

Security clearance

Stakeholder engagement

Agile delivery

User stories & criteria

Backlog management

Facilitation

Cross-functional collaboration

Tools

DevOps

Embedded

Kanban

Security

UX UI Design

Job description

Salary: £67,000 - 107,000 per year

Requirements:

• Experience working in UK Security & Intelligence, defence, or classified government environments.
• Business analysis, product management, and Agile delivery across multidisciplinary teams.
• Hands‑on Scrum or Kanban delivery, sprint ceremonies, backlog refinement, reviews and retrospectives.
• Ability to engage, challenge, and facilitate across technical and non‑technical stakeholders.
• Comfortable working alongside software engineering, data, DevOps, and UX teams.
• Workflow analysis, business rules capture, and requirements traceability through change control.
• We require an active eDV level security clearance.

Responsibilities:

• Lead requirements discovery by eliciting, analysing, and validating business, user, data, and technical needs across complex delivery programmes.
• Write user stories, acceptance criteria, and process maps that engineering, design, and data teams can work from.li>
• Own and continuously refine product backlogs, supporting prioritisation with product owners based on mission value and delivery constraints.
• Run stakeholder workshops and governance forums, turning competing views into shared understanding and clear decisions.
• Sit at the centre of Agile ceremonies, sprint planning, refinement, reviews, and retrospectives, and drive continuous improvement in how teams work.
• Bridge the gap between business intent and technical delivery, managing dependencies, assumptions, and requirements changes throughout.

Technologies:

• DevOps
• Embedded
• Kanban
• Security
• UX UI Design

More:

We are a growing consultancy at the forefront of secure digital delivery, offering a brand-new Senior Business Analyst opportunity with real influence from day one. You will work in London in a hybrid setup, embedded within Agile delivery teams and directly with customers, product owners, and technical specialists on complex, mission‑critical products. This role is central to delivery in one of the most operationally significant environments in the UK, with a salary of £65,000 to £85,000 plus benefits.

last updated 38 week of 2026