Contract: Permanent, full-time
Location: London (hybrid-working)
Closing Date: 29 May 2026
About the role
The Lead Business Analyst will lead and manage a team of Business Analysts, overseeing analysis and specification activities across a diverse portfolio of projects. You will be responsible for ensuring the delivery of high-quality business and systems analysis that underpins effective IT solutions aligned with Trinity's enterprise architecture and strategic objectives. Working in close collaboration with Project Managers, technical teams, and the Product team, you will play a key role in translating business needs into technology solutions. Additionally, you will provide leadership in maintaining analysis standards, promoting best practices, and driving continuous improvement across the business analysis function.
Responsibilities
- Team leadership and management
- Planning and coordination
- Business analysis and solutions design
- Testing and implementation support
- Collaboration across teams
- Standards, governance and continuous improvement
- Data awareness
Qualifications
- Significant experience working as a Business Analyst on complex IT and digital projects across the full software development lifecycle.
- Proven team leadership or line management experience within a business analysis function.
- Strong stakeholder management skills, with the ability to engage effectively at all levels of the organisation.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to produce high-quality documentation.
- Strong technical understanding to support the translation of business needs into effective system designs.
- Experience producing functional and technical specifications and supporting solution design processes.
- Demonstrable experience in system and user acceptance testing.
- Ability to plan, estimate, and manage analysis activities across multiple projects.
- Proficient in a range of analysis techniques, process modelling, and requirements gathering tools.
- Experience working with agile delivery teams, particularly alongside Product Owners and UX professionals.
- Understanding of information governance and data protection (e.g. GDPR).
- Familiarity with enterprise data models and reporting structures.
- Background in education, assessment, or global organisations.
- Awareness of product development lifecycles and customer‑centric design principles.
Benefits
Trinity provides a work environment that is stimulating, inspiring and fair. Our approach to reward values our employees while ensuring each person's contribution makes us great as an organisation. As an employee, you'll enjoy a range of benefits here at Trinity.
Our Commitment
Trinity is open to all applicants from different backgrounds and we are committed to building a more diverse and inclusive workplace. All applications are dealt with in the strictest of confidence.
We actively encourage applications from candidates of all abilities. As a Disability Confident employer, we are dedicated to creating a workplace that is accessible, supportive, and welcoming for individuals with different abilities. We will make sure you can be interviewed fairly if you have a disability, long term health condition, or are neuro‑diverse.
Trinity promotes and welcomes applications from a wide range of candidates, including those with criminal records. In line with the requirements of the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (1974), we select all candidates for interview based on their competencies, qualifications and knowledge.
To learn more about our DEI commitment as an equal opportunities employer, please visit our Equality, diversity and inclusion page.
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About the role
The Lead Business Analyst will lead and manage a team of Business Analysts, overseeing analysis and specification activities across a diverse portfolio of projects. You will be responsible for ensuring the delivery of high-quality business and systems analysis that underpins effective IT solutions aligned with Trinity’s enterprise architecture and strategic objectives. Working in close collaboration with Project Managers, technical teams, and the Product team, you will play a key role in translating business needs into technology solutions. Additionally, you will provide leadership in maintaining analysis standards, promoting best practices, and driving continuous improvement across the business analysis function.
Responsibilities
- Team leadership and management
- Planning and coordination
- Business analysis and solutions design
- Testing and implementation support
- Collaboration across teams
- Standards, governance and continuous improvement
- Data awareness
Qualifications
- Significant experience working as a Business Analyst on complex IT and digital projects across the full software development lifecycle.
- Proven team leadership or line management experience within a business analysis function.
- Strong stakeholder management skills, with the ability to engage effectively at all levels of the organisation.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to produce high-quality documentation.
- Strong technical understanding to support the translation of business needs into effective system designs.
- Experience producing functional and technical specifications and supporting solution design processes.
- Demonstrable experience in system and user acceptance testing.
- Ability to plan, estimate, and manage analysis activities across multiple projects.
- Proficient in a range of analysis techniques, process modelling, and requirements gathering tools.
- Experience working with agile delivery teams, particularly alongside Product Owners and UX professionals.
- Understanding of information governance and data protection (e.g. GDPR).
- Familiarity with enterprise data models and reporting structures.
- Background in education, assessment, or global organisations.
- Awareness of product development lifecycles and customer‑centric design principles.
Benefits
Trinity provides a work environment that is stimulating, inspiring and fair. Our approach to reward values our employees while ensuring each person’s contribution makes us great as an organisation. As an employee, you’ll enjoy a range of benefits here at Trinity.
Our Commitment
Trinity is open to all applicants from different backgrounds and we are committed to building a more diverse and inclusive workplace. All applications are dealt with in the strictest of confidence.
We actively encourage applications from candidates of all abilities. As a Disability Confident employer, we are dedicated to creating a workplace that is accessible, supportive, and welcoming for individuals with different abilities. We will make sure you can be interviewed fairly if you have a disability, long term health condition, or are neuro‑diverse.
Trinity promotes and welcomes applications from a wide range of candidates, including those with criminal records. In line with the requirements of the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (1974), we select all candidates for interview based on their competencies, qualifications and knowledge.
To learn more about our DEI commitment as an equal opportunities employer, please visit our Equality, diversity and inclusion page.
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