Senior Business Analyst

What will you be doing:

▪ Requirement Gathering: Collaborate with stakeholders to elicit, document, and prioritise business requirements.

▪ Process Design: Develop and optimise business processes to improve efficiency and effectiveness.

▪ Functional Design: Create detailed functional specifications and design documents to guide development teams.

▪ Testing Planning and Execution: Develop test plans, test cases, and execute testing to ensure solutions meet business requirements.

▪ Agile Project Delivery: Work within Agile frameworks to deliver projects iteratively and incrementally.

▪ Write and refine user stories and acceptance criteria to a standard ready for development.

▪ Manage and track requirements, stories and test artefacts in Azure DevOps throughout the delivery lifecycle

▪ Azure DevOps: Utilise Microsoft Azure DevOps for project management, version control, and continuous integration/continuous deployment (CI/CD)

What skills will you have:

• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, process modelling and documentation skills
• Exceptional communication, facilitation, analytical and interpersonal skills.
• Proficiency in requirement gathering, process design, functional design, and testing.
• Proven experience producing requirement, functional and process models as core deliverables.
• Hands-on experience with solutions built on the Microsoft Power Platform (Power Apps, Power Automate, Power BI, Dataverse) — sufficient to translate business requirements into platform-appropriate functional designs.
• Strong testing background: experience planning and executing functional and user acceptance testing.
• Experience working across full SDLC and agile delivery methodologies (Agile, Scrum, or hybrid).
• Proficient in tools such as Visio, Confluence, Jira, Azure DevOps, or similar
• Hands-on experience with Microsoft Azure DevOps. Education: Bachelor’s degree in business, IT, or a related field.
• A Master’s degree or relevant certifications (e.g., CBAP, PMI-PBA) is a plus.

Minimum of 7 years of experience as a Business Analyst in an IT consultancy or similar environment.

 Ability to lead stakeholder engagement and manage competing priorities.

▪ Demonstrated ability to work both independently and collaboratively in cross-functional teams.

▪ Relevant business analysis certification (e.g. BCS/ISEB Business Analysis Diploma, IIBA CBAP/CCBA, AgileBA).

▪ Familiarity with Microsoft Purview, Dataverse security models, or wider Microsoft data platform tooling a plus.

▪ Experience mentoring or supporting the development of Junior Business Analysts.