Senior Business Analyst

Rent a Recruiter; Dublin; On-site; EUR 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Rent a Recruiter is seeking an experienced Senior Business Analyst to support a complex public sector digital transformation in Dublin, Ireland. The role requires close work with business stakeholders, technical teams and suppliers to define and document requirements, establish baselines and ensure end-to-end traceability throughout the delivery lifecycle.

The ideal candidate will have at least 7 years in business analysis, experience in requirements management and data migration, and

Qualifications

• Minimum 7 years of professional experience in Business Analysis.
• Experience leading BA activities on complex digital transformation projects in the public sector.
• Third-level qualification in Information Systems, Business, Technology, or equivalent experience.
• Proficiency with JIRA and Microsoft Visio.
• Professional fluency in written and spoken English.

Responsibilities

• Lead elicitation, analysis, documentation, validation and agreement of business requirements.
• Maintain baseline and prioritised requirements register.
• Analyse current and future state business processes.
• Facilitate stakeholder workshops and collaboration with business and technical stakeholders.
• Develop and maintain requirements traceability matrices.
• Define data and content migration requirements and mappings.
• Develop acceptance criteria and support UAT.
• Support delivery, supplier engagement and issue resolution.
• Assess impacts of defects and changes on requirements.
• Plan for operational readiness and transition to BAU.

Skills

Requirements management

Business analysis

Stakeholder engagement

Data migration

Traceability

UAT support

Education

Third-level qualification

Tools

JIRA

Microsoft Visio

Job description

We are currently seeking an experienced Senior Business Analyst to support a complex public sector digital transformation programme based in Dublin and all candidates need to be based in Ireland for meeting purposes

This is an excellent opportunity for a highly skilled Business Analyst with significant experience in requirements management, business process analysis, stakeholder engagement and data and content migration within public sector or similarly complex technology-enabled environments.

The successful candidate will work closely with business stakeholders, technical teams and suppliers to define and document requirements, establish implementation baselines and ensure end-to-end traceability throughout the delivery lifecycle.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead business requirements elicitation, analysis, documentation, validation and agreement.
• Establish and maintain an approved implementation baseline and prioritised requirements register.
• Analyse, validate and document current-state and future-state business processes.
• Facilitate stakeholder workshops and collaborate with business and technical stakeholders to establish requirements.
• Develop and maintain requirements traceability matrices to ensure requirements are tracked throughout implementation.
• Define data and content migration requirements, including mapping, transformation, reconciliation and validation rules.
• Document data and content ownership arrangements.
• Develop acceptance criteria and requirements documentation to support testing and User Acceptance Testing (UAT).
• Maintain clarification, assumption and decision logs.
• Develop roadmaps for future-phase requirements.
• Support implementation delivery, supplier engagement and resolution of requirements-related issues.
• Assess the impact of defects, changes and evolving business requirements.
• Support operational readiness, handover, transition and implementation activities.
• A minimum of 7 years of relevant professional experience in Business Analysis.
• Demonstrable experience leading, eliciting, defining, documenting and agreeing business analysis activities on complex digital transformation or technology-enabled programmes within the public sector.
• A recognised third-level qualification in Information Systems, Business, Technology or a related discipline, or equivalent demonstrable professional experience.
• Practical experience using JIRA and Microsoft Visio.
• Professional fluency in written and spoken English.
• Availability to commence on 30 November 2026.

Experience and Skills

• Defining, eliciting, agreeing and maintaining scope and requirements baselines.
• Managing end-to-end requirements traceability across complex programmes.
• Business process analysis and process documentation.
• Facilitating stakeholder workshops in public sector environments.
• Defining data and content migration requirements.
• Developing acceptance criteria and supporting UAT.
• Supporting implementation delivery, supplier engagement and change impact assessments.
• Operational readiness, handover and transition to business-as-usual operations.

Please highlight your experience with requirements management, traceability, stakeholder engagement, data migration, JIRA and Microsoft Visio.