Senior/Managing IT Business Analyst
£60,000 - £65,000
Hybrid - Bridgwater, Somerset x3 days/week
What you’ll be doing:
- Lead and develop a team of Business Analysts, setting clear standards, templates and methods for requirements, process modelling, user stories, acceptance criteria and traceability.
- Own the full requirements lifecycle – from discovery and elicitation through change control to sign‑off – ensuring everything traces back to business outcomes.
- Integrate BA practice with a range of delivery approaches including Agile, Scrum, Kanban, hybrid and waterfall.
- Facilitate workshops, interviews and structured analysis sessions to deeply understand business needs and translate them into robust, well‑structured specifications.
- Define scope, manage change and prevent scope creep while maintaining alignment with business priorities.
- Act as the trusted bridge between business areas and IT teams, facilitating clear decision‑making through structured options, impact assessments and recommendations.
- Produce high‑quality communications: problem statements, benefits cases, options papers, requirements packs and demo scripts.
- Drive quality assurance across all BA deliverables through peer reviews and project gates.
- Build a reusable knowledge base of processes, capabilities, requirements and lessons learned.
- Work closely with third‑party providers to ensure project requirements are clearly understood and delivered.
What we’re looking for:
Essential experience
- Proven experience leading a Business Analysis function or team in a structured, governed change environment.
- A track record of delivering programmes of change across multiple concurrent projects and system assignments.
- Experience in a fast‑paced, high‑performing change delivery environment where quality and pace both matter.
- Strong people management skills – including performance management, coaching, mentoring, appraisals and team development.
- The ability to produce clear written specifications: data requirements, business process flows, user interface changes, user stories and third‑party package specifications.
- Confident working across matrix teams in a project environment, with the ability to influence without direct authority.
- Experience working with a range of delivery methodologies and integrating BA practice into each.
- Excellent communication skills – written, verbal and in facilitation – with the confidence to challenge ambiguous or low‑value requirements professionally.
Desirable qualifications
- BCS Business Analysis Foundation or Diploma.
- PMI‑PBA (Professional in Business Analysis) or equivalent recognised qualification.
The kind of person who’ll thrive here:
You create a supportive environment where analysts can learn, experiment and grow. You delegate with confidence, give honest feedback and step in when it matters. You keep business outcomes at the heart of every decision, look for ways to simplify rather than complicate, and ensure everything your team produces is genuinely usable and aligned to what the business actually needs. You lead to the strategy – not to personal agendas.
Ready to shape how great analysis gets done? We’d love to hear from you.
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