Technical Business Analyst - Outside IR35 - SC Cleared

SR2; City Of London; On-site; GBP 50,000 - 75,000; Full time

Job summary

A technology consultancy in the UK is seeking a Technical Business Analyst to support the discovery and planning for a cloud adoption roadmap. The ideal candidate will have proven experience in capturing technical requirements related to cloud services, with a strong understanding of Databricks and engagement with both technical and non-technical stakeholders. The role includes leading workshops, defining compliance requirements, and assisting in risk-based migration planning.

Qualifications

• Proven Technical BA within cloud or data platform programmes.
• Strong experience gathering technical, data, and platform requirements.
• Understanding of Databricks and related governance.

Responsibilities

• Lead workshops to capture Cloud + Databricks needs.
• Support creation of a risk-based migration plan.
• Prepare core artefacts for migration consideration.

Skills

Technical Business Analysis

Requirements Gathering

Cloud Technologies

Data Platform Capabilities

Stakeholder Engagement

Tools

Databricks

Azure

AWS Tech Stack

Job description

SR2 are seeking a Technical Business Analyst to support the discovery, definition, and migration planning for a cloud adoption roadmap, with a particular focus on modern data platform capabilities. The role centres on capturing business‑aligned cloud requirements, shaping Databricks‑led data platform needs, and supporting a phased migration strategy across critical services and data workloads.

Key Responsibilities

Requirements Discovery

• Lead workshops with Architecture, Data, Engineering, Product, and Cyber to capture Cloud + Databricks needs.
• Define security, compliance, downtime tolerance, RPO/RTO, SLAs, and cost requirements.
• Capture data platform requirements across ingestion, transformation, governance, and analytics (Databricks, Delta Lake, Unity Catalog, Workflows).
• Map service and data dependencies, classify criticality, and align to the Core Cloud capability catalogue.
• Produce a clear, endorsed baseline of Core Cloud + Databricks requirements.

Migration Strategy Support

• Support creation of a risk‑based migration plan for services, data pipelines, and analytics workloads.
• Assess current landscape, identify gaps for Databricks enablement, and outline sequencing options.
• Prepare core artefacts (requirements packs, dependency maps, current vs target state, migration considerations).
• Shape sprint‑ready BA deliverables with Engineering and Architecture.

Experience Needed

• Proven Technical BA within cloud or data platform programmes (Azure + Databricks ideal).
• Experience working with AWS tech stack
• Strong experience gathering technical, data, and platform requirements.
• Understanding of Databricks (Delta Lake, Unity Catalog, governance, clusters, pipelines).
• Comfortable engaging technical and non‑technical stakeholders; strong documentation skills.

Nice to Have: Data platform migration experience; exposure to FinOps; agile delivery.