Senior Business Analyst in City

Senior Business Analyst Remote with occasional travel to Cardiff Up to 80,000 per annum

CPS Group are looking for an experienced Senior Business Analyst to join a high-performing digital transformation environment delivering impactful change across large-scale public sector and technology programmes.

This role is ideal for someone with a strong technical background who thrives in collaborative, fast-paced delivery environments and enjoys shaping digital solutions that improve services, processes, and user experiences.

Working within multidisciplinary delivery teams, you will play a key role in understanding business needs, defining requirements, and supporting the successful delivery of user-centred digital and technology solutions.

You will collaborate closely with stakeholders, technical teams, product leads, designers, and delivery teams to translate complex business challenges into clear, actionable outcomes.

Key Responsibilities

• Work closely with senior stakeholders and business users to gather, analyse, and document business requirements
• Translate business needs into clear functional and technical specifications
• Facilitate workshops, stakeholder interviews, and discovery sessions to identify priorities and opportunities
• Collaborate with developers, architects, designers, and testers to shape solution design and delivery approaches
• Support digital transformation and business change initiatives across complex programmes
• Create and maintain high-quality artefacts including user stories, process maps, business cases, workflows, and acceptance criteria
• Ensure requirements traceability and alignment with organisational objectives
• Support testing activities including UAT coordination, validation, and defect resolution
• Analyse systems, processes, and data flows to identify improvements and optimisation opportunities
• Contribute to continuous improvement initiatives and share best practice across the wider business analysis community
• Mentor and support junior Business Analysts where appropriate

Skills & Experience

• Proven experience as a Business Analyst or Senior Business Analyst, ideally within public sector or large enterprise environments
• Strong technical understanding, including experience working alongside development and architecture teams
• Experience delivering digital and IT solutions across varied technologies and platforms
• Strong knowledge of Agile, iterative, and/or Waterfall delivery methodologies
• Experience creating backlogs, user stories, customer journeys, and acceptance criteria
• Excellent stakeholder management, facilitation, and communication skills
• Ability to translate complex technical concepts into clear business language
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, and process improvement capabilities
• Experience working within multidisciplinary delivery teams

Desirable Experience

• Experience supporting digital transformation or large-scale IT change programmes
• Knowledge of systems integration, APIs, data analysis, or data modelling
• Familiarity with tools such as JIRA, Confluence, or similar collaboration platforms
• Understanding of government or public sector frameworks and standards
• Experience mentoring junior team members or contributing to BA best practice communities

Additional Information

• Hybrid working model with remote flexibility and occasional travel to Cardiff
• Opportunity to work on meaningful, large-scale transformation programmes
• Collaborative and supportive delivery environment with strong career development opportunities
• Candidates may be required to undergo background checks and security clearance depending on project requirements

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