Senior Business Analyst (Contract) - Technical / SaaS

Opus Recruitment Solutions Limited; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 129,000 - 166,000; Full time

Job summary

Opus Recruitment Solutions Limited is seeking a Senior Business Analyst (Contract) for a fast-growing AI SaaS business delivering enterprise transformation across Europe. This remote-first role combines 2-3 days on-site per month and travel to customer sites in Europe.

You will own requirements, backlog quality, acceptance criteria and stakeholder engagement, collaborating with distributed engineering teams in Agile environments.

Qualifications

• 10+ years' Business Analysis experience across enterprise software projects.
• Proven end-to-end requirements delivery across multiple enterprise programmes.
• Strong user story and acceptance criteria development.
• Experience working with distributed engineering teams in Agile environments.
• Strong stakeholder management and requirements shaping.
• Data literate with strong Excel and SQL skills.
• Willingness to travel across Europe; UK right to work.
• Experience with product-focused, modern tech stack; SaaS/ERP preferred.
• Background in public sector procurement, tendering, MedTech or Pharma.
• Scale-up or high-growth SaaS experience.
• Additional European language skills (French, German, Italian, Polish, Nordic).

Responsibilities

• Lead discovery workshops with enterprise customers to define and validate business requirements.
• Translate business needs into detailed user stories, acceptance criteria and functional specifications.
• Own backlog refinement and ensure a continuous pipeline of sprint-ready work.
• Define UAT processes and acceptance standards for new platform capabilities.
• Support the delivery of complex modern SaaS implementations across multiple European markets.
• Drive measurable customer outcomes and continuous product improvement.

Skills

Business Analysis

Backlog management

User stories

Agile

Stakeholder management

SQL

Excel

Requirements gathering

Travel flexibility

SaaS/ERP experience

Job description

Senior Business Analyst (Contract) - Technical / SaaS

Remote-first: 2-3 days on-site, per month

Strong SaaS, ERP and MedTech / Pharma experience is preferred!

** Exciting opportunity to travel periodically to customer sites in Europe (France, Poland, Italy, the Nordics)

The successful contractor will join a fast-growing AI SaaS business delivering large-scale enterprise transformation programmes across Europe. You'll own requirements, backlog quality, acceptance criteria and stakeholder engagement, ensuring successful delivery of complex data and AI-driven platform deployments.

• 10+ years' Business Analysis experience across enterprise software projects.
• Proven delivery of requirements end-to-end across multiple concurrent enterprise programmes.
• Strong user story, acceptance criteria and backlog management experience.
• Experience working with distributed engineering teams in Agile environments.
• Strong stakeholder management, including challenging and shaping requirements.
• Data literate, with strong Excel and SQL skills.
• UK right to work and willingness to travel across Europe when required.
• Experience delivering product focused, modern tech stack
• Background in public sector procurement, tendering, MedTech or Pharma environments.
• Scale-up or high-growth SaaS experience.
• Additional European language skills (French, German, Italian, Polish or Nordic languages).

Project Overview

• Lead discovery workshops with enterprise customers to define and validate business requirements.
• Translate business needs into detailed user stories, acceptance criteria and functional specifications.
• Own backlog refinement and ensure a continuous pipeline of sprint-ready work.
• Define UAT processes and acceptance standards for new platform capabilities.
• Support the delivery of complex modern SaaS implementations across multiple European markets.
• Drive measurable customer outcomes and continuous product improvement.