Senior Business Analyst | Agile Digital Transformation | Leeds (Hybrid) | 12-Month Contract

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Job summary

A leading company is looking for a Senior Business Analyst to join a public sector initiative aimed at improving employment outcomes across the UK. The role involves translating user needs into product development and driving data-centric services, working in an Agile environment for a 12-month contract based in Leeds with a hybrid work arrangement.

Qualifications

• Significant experience in large-scale, complex digital transformation programmes.
• Strong command of Agile principles.
• Exceptional stakeholder engagement and communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Lead workshops, interviews, and user research activities to uncover and document business needs.
• Mentor junior BAs and contribute actively to the BA community of practice.
• Create epics, features, user stories, and acceptance criteria using best practice formats.

Skills

Stakeholder engagement

Agile principles

Business process modelling

Requirements gathering

Test scenario development

Job description

Job Description

Senior Business Analyst | Agile Digital Transformation | Leeds (Hybrid) | 12-Month Contract

We’re looking for a Senior Business Analyst to join a ground-breaking public sector initiative designed to improve employment outcomes and drive inclusive economic growth across the UK.

• This is a contract role based in Leeds, with 2 days per week in the office.
• Length: 12 months
• Day rate: £425/day (Inside IR35)
• Must have previous experience working within the public sector

We're forming two new agile, multi-disciplinary teams to deliver data-driven, -centric services supporting adults to access higher-quality, higher-paid, and more productive work. This work is at the heart of a broader effort to reduce unemployment and tackle regional inequality.

The Role: Senior Business Analyst

As a Senior BA, you’ll help translate user needs into meaningful product development, shaping services used by people across the country. Working in a complex “system of systems” environment, you’ll use Agile methodologies to drive forward research-informed, test-and-learn solutions.

What You’ll Do

• Take functional ownership of service vision elements and convert them into user-informed business processes.
• Lead workshops, interviews, and user research activities to uncover and document business needs.
• Create epics, features, user stories, and acceptance criteria using best practice formats (e.g., “as a...”, “GIVEN, WHEN, THEN”).
• Work closely with stakeholders across policy, strategy, operations, and change teams to align on outcomes.
• Influence service design across both digital platforms and operational delivery models.
• Mentor junior BAs and contribute actively to the BA community of practice.

Key Experience & Skills

• Significant experience in large-scale, complex digital transformation programmes.
• Strong command of Agile principles, with the ability to embed and advocate these practices.
• Exceptional stakeholder engagement and communication skills across technical and non-technical teams.
• Proficiency in business process modelling, requirements gathering, and test scenario development.
• Experience supporting business case development and cost/benefit analysis.
• A solid understanding of software development lifecycles and service design approaches.