Senior Business Analyst
Location: Newcastle-based (team-defined hybrid working with occasional travel)
Rate: £450 - £470 a day inside IR35
Clearance: BPSS required
Contract Type: 3 Month contract - Likely to be extended
An opportunity is available for an experienced Senior Business Analyst to support a major public-sector transformation programme focused on health and disability services.
The role sits within a multidisciplinary delivery team responsible for progressing the next phase of a developing data strategy and reviewing an existing data platform. The successful candidate will play a key role in shaping future data capabilities, defining strategic direction, and supporting scalable service delivery.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead requirements elicitation in a strategic context, helping shape direction and reduce ambiguity
- Engage effectively with stakeholders across multidisciplinary teams, including technical and non-technical functions
- Translate business needs into clear data requirements, including:
- Measures
- Dimensions
- Attributes
- Business definitions
- Logical data sourcing rules
- Develop business use cases to define capabilities required for a future-state data platform
- Support the creation of a "North Star" vision for data within the programme
- Conduct options analysis in collaboration with Solution Architects and Product Leads
- Contribute to the design of data onboarding processes to support platform scalability
- Support implementation of a data governance framework across the organisation
- Assist in evaluating and improving data quality and suitability for solution
Essential Skills & Experience
- Strong experience working as a Senior Business Analyst
- Proven experience in Big Data and/or Data Warehouse environments
- Ability to translate business requirements into data logic and structures
- Experience producing business definitions and logical data sourcing rules
- Hands-on experience with data profiling and assessing data quality
- Understanding of:
- Data platform architectures
- Data models and schemas
- Data consumption and reporting tools
- Strong stakeholder engagement skills across complex, multi-team environments
- Experience working in strategic or transformation settings