Senior Business Analyst - Technical

Opus Recruitment Solutions Ltd; United Kingdom; Remote; GBP 78,000 - 106,000; Part time

Job summary

Opus Recruitment Solutions Ltd is seeking an experienced Senior Business Analyst for a contracted 6+ month engagement. Based remotely in the UK, you will own requirements, backlog quality, acceptance criteria and stakeholder engagement across enterprise software and AI-driven platform deployments.

You'll lead discovery workshops, translate business needs into detailed user stories and UAT definitions, and guide end-to-end delivery with distributed Agile teams across Europe, ensuring measurable

Qualifications

• 10+ years of Business Analysis experience across enterprise software projects.
• Proven delivery of requirements end-to-end across multiple concurrent enterprise programmes.
• Strong backlog, user story and acceptance criteria management experience.
• Experience with distributed engineering teams in Agile environments.
• Strong stakeholder management, shaping requirements across projects.
• Data literate with strong Excel and SQL skills.

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 Europe.

Skills

Business Analysis

Backlog Management

Agile

Stakeholder Management

User Stories

SQL

Excel

Job description

Senior Business Analyst (Contract) £500 per day Outside IR35 UK, RemoteProject Length: 6 months +

The succesful 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.

Essential Requirements

• 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.

Desirable Requirements

• Experience delivering product focused, modern tech stack
• Background in public sector procurement, tendering, MedTech or Pharma environments.
• Experience defining CRM, ERP or enterprise system integrations.
• 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.