Senior Business Analyst

Forward Role Secure; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

Forward Role Secure is seeking a Senior Business Analyst for a strategic, mission-critical role in London. You will translate classified operational needs into actionable outcomes, working directly with customers and delivery teams to shape how complex products are built within secure environments.

You will be embedded in Agile delivery teams, leading requirements discovery, writing precise user stories, managing backlogs, and facilitating governance sessions that resolve competing viewpoints.

Qualifications

• Experience in UK Security & Intelligence, defence, or classified government environments.
• Proven ability to deliver across multidisciplinary teams in Agile environments.
• Hands-on Scrum or Kanban delivery with ceremonies and backlog refinement.
• Ability to engage and facilitate across technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Collaboration with software engineering, data, DevOps, and UX teams.

Responsibilities

• Lead requirements discovery across business, user, data, and technical needs.
• Write sharp user stories and acceptance criteria for engineering teams.
• Own and refine product backlogs with product owners.
• Run stakeholder workshops and governance meetings to reach decisions.
• Active participation in Agile ceremonies and driving continuous improvement.
• Bridge business intent and technical delivery, managing dependencies and changes.

Skills

Security & Intelligence experience

Agile delivery

Stakeholder facilitation

Requirements discovery

Backlog management

Job description

Senior Business Analyst - Secure Government & Defence

Location – London (hybrid)

Clearance – You are required to hold an active eDV level security clearance.

Are you a Senior Business Analyst who's operated inside UK government, defence, or intelligence environments? This is a rare opportunity to join a growing consultancy at the forefront of secure digital delivery, in a brand-new position with real influence from day one.

The opportunity

You won't be filling a seat. You'll be shaping how complex, mission-critical products get built, working directly with customers and delivery teams to translate classified operational needs into outcomes that matter. You'll be embedded in Agile delivery teams, working directly with customers, product owners, and technical specialists to translate complex mission needs into clear, actionable outcomes. This isn't a back-office BA role, you'll be hands-on, visible, and central to delivery. From requirements discovery and backlog management to stakeholder workshops and continuous improvement, you'll own the full analysis lifecycle in one of the most operationally significant delivery environments in the UK.

• Lead requirements discovery — eliciting, analysing, and validating business, user, data, and technical needs across complex delivery programmes.
• Write sharp user stories, acceptance criteria, and process maps that engineering, design, and data teams can actually work from.
• 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, retros and drive continuous improvement in how teams work.
• Bridge the gap between business intent and technical delivery, managing dependencies, assumptions, and requirements changes throughout.

Essential skills/experience

• 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.