Business Analyst
Posted 1 day ago by MRJ Recruitment
£450 Per day
Outside
Undetermined
Cheshire West And Chester, England, United Kingdom
Summary: This role is for a Technical Business Analyst within a significant technology transformation programme aimed at modernising core platforms and integration capabilities. The position involves collaborating with various stakeholders to facilitate a large-scale migration to a cloud-based architecture while developing new platform capabilities. The ideal candidate should be adept in Agile environments and possess strong analytical skills to translate complex requirements into actionable specifications. The role requires effective communication across onshore and offshore teams to ensure clarity in a distributed engineering context.
Key Responsibilities:
- Lead analysis and documentation of business and technical requirements across multiple workstreams within a large-scale transformation programme
- Write, refine, and manage high-quality user stories, including clear acceptance criteria and traceability to business outcomes
- Work closely with engineering and architecture teams to define system behaviour, functional requirements, and integration points
- Support Agile delivery ceremonies, including backlog refinement, sprint planning, and ongoing sprint support to clarify requirements and resolve ambiguity
- Map and analyse end-to-end system flows across legacy and target-state cloud platforms
- Support data analysis and migration activities, including data mapping, transformation rules, validation, and reconciliation
- Collaborate on API and integration design, including cross-system dependencies and event-driven architecture components
- Translate complex business needs into clear technical specifications suitable for engineering delivery
- Support solution design discussions, ensuring requirements are practical, scalable, and aligned with architectural direction (including Azure-based services and event bus architecture)
- Work across offshore and onshore teams, ensuring consistent understanding across distributed squads
- Support SIT and UAT phases, ensuring full traceability from requirements through to testing outcomes
- Identify and manage dependencies, risks, assumptions, and data issues across integrated systems
- Contribute to cutover and migration planning activities to support smooth transition to target state
- Engage with third-party vendors and suppliers to ensure alignment on integrated components
Key Skills:
- Proven experience as a Technical Business Analyst / Systems Analyst within complex Agile transformation programmes
- Strong experience writing user stories with well-defined acceptance criteria and working through backlog refinement with engineering teams
- Confident operating in Agile delivery cycles (refinement, planning, sprint support, retrospectives)
- Strong understanding of system architecture, APIs, integrations, and end-to-end data flows
- Experience working on cloud transformation programmes (Azure or similar enterprise cloud environments preferred)
- Strong capability in data analysis, data mapping, and supporting migration / reconciliation activities
- Ability to engage effectively with engineers, architects, and offshore development teams in detailed technical conversations
- Comfortable working across multiple systems, dependencies, and parallel workstreams in complex environments
- Strong analytical mindset with the ability to interrogate systems and understand how data and processes flow end-to-end
- Excellent communication skills, with the ability to translate between business and technical audiences
- Experience within enterprise platforms, CRM ecosystems, or large-scale integration environments is advantageous
Salary (Rate): £450 per day
City: Cheshire West And Chester
Country: United Kingdom
Working Arrangements: undetermined
IR35 Status: outside IR35
Seniority Level: undetermined
Industry: IT
Technical Business Analyst | Technology Transformation Programme This is a high-impact Technical Business Analyst / Systems Analyst role at the centre of a major technology transformation programme, modernising core platforms, data, and integration capabilities across the organisation. Working closely with the CTO, Delivery Manager, architects, engineers, and business stakeholders, you’ll play a key role in delivering a large-scale migration from legacy on-premise systems to a modern cloud-based architecture, alongside the development of new platform capabilities, APIs, and event-driven services. This role suits someone who is confident operating in Agile delivery environments, with a strong command of user story lifecycle management and the ability to work closely with technical teams without needing to be deeply hands-on technically. You’ll need to be comfortable understanding system behaviour, asking the right questions, and translating complex needs into clear, structured, and actionable requirements. You’ll operate across onshore and offshore delivery teams, ensuring clarity and consistency in a complex, distributed engineering environment.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead analysis and documentation of business and technical requirements across multiple workstreams within a large-scale transformation programme
- Write, refine, and manage high-quality user stories, including clear acceptance criteria and traceability to business outcomes
- Work closely with engineering and architecture teams to define system behaviour, functional requirements, and integration points
- Support Agile delivery ceremonies, including backlog refinement, sprint planning, and ongoing sprint support to clarify requirements and resolve ambiguity
- Map and analyse end-to-end system flows across legacy and target-state cloud platforms
- Support data analysis and migration activities, including data mapping, transformation rules, validation, and reconciliation
- Collaborate on API and integration design, including cross-system dependencies and event-driven architecture components
- Translate complex business needs into clear technical specifications suitable for engineering delivery
- Support solution design discussions, ensuring requirements are practical, scalable, and aligned with architectural direction (including Azure-based services and event bus architecture)
- Work across offshore and onshore teams, ensuring consistent understanding across distributed squads
- Support SIT and UAT phases, ensuring full traceability from requirements through to testing outcomes
- Identify and manage dependencies, risks, assumptions, and data issues across integrated systems
- Contribute to cutover and migration planning activities to support smooth transition to target state
- Engage with third-party vendors and suppliers to ensure alignment on integrated components
Person Requirements
- Proven experience as a Technical Business Analyst / Systems Analyst within complex Agile transformation programmes
- Strong experience writing user stories with well-defined acceptance criteria and working through backlog refinement with engineering teams
- Confident operating in Agile delivery cycles (refinement, planning, sprint support, retrospectives)
- Strong understanding of system architecture, APIs, integrations, and end-to-end data flows
- Experience working on cloud transformation programmes (Azure or similar enterprise cloud environments preferred)
- Strong capability in data analysis, data mapping, and supporting migration / reconciliation activities
- Ability to engage effectively with engineers, architects, and offshore development teams in detailed technical conversations
- Comfortable working across multiple systems, dependencies, and parallel workstreams in complex environments
- Strong analytical mindset with the ability to interrogate systems and understand how data and processes flow end-to-end
- Excellent communication skills, with the ability to translate between business and technical audiences
- Experience within enterprise platforms, CRM ecosystems, or large-scale integration environments is advantageous
Next Steps We’re looking for someone who brings strong Agile BA discipline, technical awareness, and the ability to operate confidently in complex system environments. The focus is on ensuring clarity, consistency, and delivery confidence across a major enterprise transformation programme.
Finer Details Interview w/c 29th June IR35 Status: Outside Rate: £450 per day, depending on experience