Job Description
Technical Business Analyst (6 Month Contract)
Abingdon (2-3 days a week onsite
-300 a day (outside IR35)
We''re looking for an experienced Technical Business Analyst to join a large, complex organisation.
This is an excellent opportunity to work across a range of IT projects, acting as the link between business stakeholders, project managers and technical delivery teams. You''ll play a key role in understanding business needs, defining clear requirements and supporting the delivery of technology-enabled change and process improvements.
Working across one or more projects, you will help ensure that requirements are clearly understood, documented and translated into practical solutions, while supporting effective project governance and delivery.
Key Responsibilities
- Elicit, analyse and document functional and non-functional business requirements.
- Facilitate stakeholder workshops, interviews and meetings to establish business needs and validate proposed solutions.
- Develop and maintain key BA documentation, including requirements specifications, business cases, process maps, user stories and acceptance criteria.
- Analyse existing processes and define future-state processes, identifying opportunities for improvement and efficiency.
- Translate business requirements into clear, actionable specifications for technical delivery teams.
- Work closely with project managers, developers, architects and testers throughout the project lifecycle.
- Support solution design, testing, implementation and post-implementation reviews.
- Manage stakeholder expectations, resolve conflicting requirements and ensure effective communication across teams.
- Support impact assessments, change readiness and benefits tracking.
- Ensure appropriate governance, documentation and project standards are maintained.
Skills & Experience
We are looking for someone with:
- Proven experience working as an IT Business Analyst within a complex IT or technology environment.
- Strong requirements elicitation, analysis and documentation skills.
- Experience producing functional requirements, process maps, user stories and acceptance criteria.
- Good understanding of AS-IS / TO-BE process mapping and business process improvement.
- Experience working within IT project delivery environments, ideally across both Agile and traditional methodologies.
- Understanding of ITIL and IT Service Management principles.
- Excellent stakeholder management and workshop facilitation skills.
- The ability to translate business needs into clear requirements for technical teams.
- Strong analytical, problem-solving and communication skills.
- A structured and collaborative approach, with the confidence to challenge assumptions and bring clarity to complex situations.
You''ll be an organised, proactive and commercially aware Business Analyst who enjoys working with a variety of stakeholders and technical teams. You''ll be comfortable operating in a complex environment, managing ambiguity and ensuring that business requirements are translated into tangible project outcomes.
Applicants need to be security clearable so will need to have lived in the UK for the last 5 years.