Senior IT BA: Operational Resilience & Risk

Ocho People; Belfast City District; Hybrid; GBP 55,000 - 65,000; Full time

Job summary

Ocho People is recruiting an IT Business Analyst for the Operational Resilience & Risk remit in Belfast. This hybrid role combines three days onsite with two days remote, within a regulated national infrastructure environment.

You will design, facilitate and deliver a comprehensive Business Continuity framework across every directorate, collaborating with senior leaders to map processes and define recovery objectives.

Qualifications

• 5+ years' IT business analysis or transformation experience
• Experience liaising with business end users across a large organisation
• Experience translating business requirements into system requirements
• Experience supporting a large IT implementation or transformation programme
• Experience with Agile and Waterfall methodologies
• Knowledge of IT infrastructure, cloud, cybersecurity and data protection

Responsibilities

• Facilitate workshops with senior leaders, process owners and SMEs to gather and validate business continuity requirements
• Lead Business Impact Assessments to identify critical services, activities, operational impacts and recovery priorities
• Map critical business processes and dependencies across people, technology, facilities, suppliers and information
• Define and validate recovery time objectives, recovery point objectives and minimum service levels
• Identify resilience gaps, single points of failure and key risks, and propose improvements
• Translate outputs into clear Business Continuity Plans, procedures, maps and actions
• Align requirements with incident response, crisis management and service recovery arrangements
• Define plan ownership, roles, escalation routes and governance
• Run scenario-based exercises and capture lessons learned for improvements
• Translate wider business requirements into system requirements across Agile and Waterfall delivery

Skills

IT business analysis

Business transformation/change

Stakeholder engagement

Agile and Waterfall

IT governance

Job description

Ocho People is recruiting an IT Business Analyst for the Operational Resilience & Risk remit in Belfast. This hybrid role combines three days onsite with two days remote, within a regulated national infrastructure environment.

You will design, facilitate and deliver a comprehensive Business Continuity framework across every directorate, collaborating with senior leaders to map processes and define recovery objectives.