Senior Business Analyst FTC

Sopra Steria Limited; United States; Remote; USD 63,000 - 77,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

25 days annual leave with option toBuy

Health cash plan

Life assurance

Pension

Job summary

Sopra Steria Limited is seeking a Senior Business Analyst on a 12‑month fixed‑term contract. You will lead requirements elicitation, shape future-state processes, and deliver high-quality BA artefacts. The role supports flexible, mostly remote work across the UK, with travel for client meetings as needed.

Applicants must hold SC clearance before starting. You will manage backlogs, collaborate with stakeholders, and apply Agile or Waterfall methods to ensure timely, quality outputs aligned with

Qualifications

• Current SC clearance or eligibility to obtain it.
• Senior Business Analyst experience in large or complex environments.
• Experience in requirements engineering, including elicitation, user stories (INVEST), and acceptance criteria.
• Experience using Jira, Confluence or Azure DevOps for requirements management.
• Ability to produce process models, data analysis, options evaluations and structured documentation.
• Strong understanding of IT systems and software development practices to bridge technical and business needs.

Responsibilities

• Lead user requirements elicitation and translate into epics, features and user stories with clear roadmaps.
• Facilitate workshops and discovery activities to shape problem statements and future processes.
• Produce high-quality BA artefacts: process maps, service design outputs, as-is/to-be analyses and acceptance criteria.
• Manage and refine backlogs; ensure requirements are prioritised and deliverable.
• Build strong stakeholder relationships and communicate effectively across projects.
• Apply Agile or Waterfall approaches to deliver assignments on time, quality, and budget.

Skills

Requirements engineering

Stakeholder management

Elicitation

User stories/INVEST

Backlog management

IT systems understanding

Agile/Waterfall experience

Tools

Jira

Confluence

Azure DevOps

Job description

Join us as a Senior Business Analyst on a 12-month fixed-term contract, where you'll work on high-complexity, business-critical projects that shape how our clients operate. You'll be part of a collaborative, expert Business Analysis community known for its supportive culture, shared knowledge, and commitment to best practice. We can offer great career progression opportunities, the ability to be based anywhere across the UK, benefits which you can flex to meet your needs and training and development opportunities. You'll generally work remotely but may need to travel occasionally for client meetings or project needs. This role requires you to hold SC clearance before you can start.

What you'll be doing

• Leading user requirements elicitation, translating insights into epics, features, user stories and clear roadmaps.
• Facilitating workshops and discovery activities to shape problem statements, validate assumptions and define future-state processes.
• Producing high-quality BA artefacts Including process maps (using Business Process Model Notation or Unified Modeling Language), service design outputs, as-is/to-be analysis and acceptance criteria.
• Managing and refining backlogs, ensuring requirements are prioritised, understood and ready for delivery.
• Building strong stakeholder relationships, ensuring clear communication and effective engagement throughout each project.
• Applying Agile or Waterfall approaches as appropriate, ensuring assignments are delivered to agreed time, quality and financial measures.

What you'll bring

• Current SC clearance, or eligibility to obtain it.
• Significant experience working as a Senior Business Analyst in large or complex environments.
• Strong experience in requirements engineering, including elicitation, user stories (using INVEST principles), and definition of acceptance criteria.
• Practical experience using Jira, Confluence or Azure DevOps for requirements management.
• Solid ability to produce process models, data analysis, options evaluations and structured documentation.
• A good understanding of IT systems and software development practices to bridge technical and business needs.

It would be great if you had

• Experience working within government or public-sector environments.
• Familiarity with broader BA toolsets, such as wireframing or prototyping tools, to support early-stage solution definition.
• Experience using collaborative platforms (for example, Miro or virtual workshop tools) during elicitation and engagement activities.

Employment Type: 12 Month Fixed Term Contract

Location: UK Wide

Security Clearance Level: SC

Internal Recruiter: Annecia

Salary: up to £52,000 dependent on experience.

Benefits: 25 days annual leave with the choice to buy additional days, health cash plan, life assurance, and pension.

Although this role is advertised as full-time, we believe that flexibility at work can promote work/life balance, increase your motivation, reduce stress and improves performance and productivity. We support different ways of working and can offer a range of flexible working arrangements.

Loved reading about this job and want to know more about us? With a long history of delivering transformation, we've developed a market-leading partnership ecosystem to provide business services of the future and shape valuable, positive outcomes for communities. We empower our clients by providing innovative solutions and commercial models that help them meet their business needs, drive operational efficiencies, and deliver impactful value creation. We remain committed to values of excellence, empathy and respect to produce transformative outcomes in business processing - creating value for all.

• Significant experience working as a Senior Business Analyst in large or complex environments.
• Strong experience in requirements engineering, including elicitation, user stories (using INVEST principles), and definition of acceptance criteria.
• Practical experience using Jira, Confluence or Azure DevOps for requirements management.
• Solid ability to produce process models, data analysis, options evaluations and structured documentation.
• A good understanding of IT systems and software development practices to bridge technical and business needs.

• Experience working within government or public-sector environments.
• Familiarity with broader BA toolsets, such as wireframing or prototyping tools, to support early-stage solution definition.
• Experience using collaborative platforms (for example, Miro or virtual workshop tools) during elicitation and engagement activities.

Although this role is advertised as full-time, we believe that flexibility at work can promote work/life balance, increase your motivation, reduce stress and improves performance and productivity. We support different ways of working and can offer a range of flexible working arrangements.