Lead Business Analyst
Posted 1 day ago by Storm ID
Negotiable
Outside
Hybrid
Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom
Summary: The Lead Business Analyst will provide senior leadership in business analysis for a digital transformation consultancy, ensuring the timely flow of analysis and functional requirements to the delivery team. This role involves managing the BA workstream, coordinating contributions from project colleagues, and maintaining alignment with project milestones. The position requires collaboration with various stakeholders and a proactive approach to identifying dependencies and risks. Experience in public sector digital delivery is desirable but not essential.
Key Responsibilities:
- Own and manage the BA workstream end-to-end including current development phases and future phase planning
- Ensure Jira tickets are raised, populated with sufficient analysis and intent, and ready for Storm’s team to convert into build-ready requirements ahead of each sprint planning session
- Co-ordinate BA contributions from other project colleagues and stakeholders, providing clear direction and prioritisation
- Attend and actively contribute to sprint planning, backlog refinement and sessions with the Storm delivery team
- Work closely with the client Product Owner, service designers and user researchers to ensure design decisions and research findings are translated promptly into actionable backlog items
- Maintain a forward-looking view of requirements across upcoming sprints and phases, identifying dependencies and gaps before they become blockers
- Map all projected BA activity onto a calendar to ensure activity is completed in alignment with project milestones
- Escalate risks and blockers to programme leadership promptly, with a clear recommendation on resolution
Key Skills:
- Proven experience as a senior or lead BA on a complex, multi-stakeholder digital programme
- Comfortable working at pace within an agile, sprint-based delivery environment
- Strong technical engagement with developers and architects
- Strong commercial understanding of programme milestones
- Natural collaborator who can align people around shared priorities
- Experience of public sector digital delivery, ideally within Scottish Government or a related environment (desirable but not essential)
Salary (Rate): undetermined
City: Edinburgh
Country: United Kingdom
Working Arrangements: hybrid
IR35 Status: outside IR35
Seniority Level: undetermined
Industry: Other
Lead Business Analyst (Public Sector) Contract - Initial 6 months Rate Outside IR35 Hybrid Scotland based
Storm ID is an award-winning Edinburgh-based digital transformation consultancy that helps organisations accelerate their use of digital, data and AI. We believe in tailored solutions, assembling expert teams to address each client's unique needs. Our services span strategy, design, technology and data & AI, ensuring seamless end-to-end delivery of platforms, products and services with real-world impact. What sets us apart is our commitment to long-lasting, data-driven, user-centred change. We enjoy close collaboration between our teams, ensuring projects move smoothly from discovery to design to delivery. We recognise the crucial link between digital and data, creating intelligent services that leverage both. We work with a range of clients across the Scottish and UK public and private sector.
About the role
You will provide dedicated, senior BA leadership across the project, acting as the single accountable point of contact for all business analysis activity. You will ensure that the client's analysis, design intent and functional requirements flow consistently and on time to Storm’s delivery team, maintaining sprint velocity and protecting milestones.
Role responsibilities
- Own and manage the BA workstream end-to-end including current development phases and future phase planning
- Ensure Jira tickets are raised, populated with sufficient analysis and intent, and ready for Storm’s team to convert into build-ready requirements ahead of each sprint planning session
- Co-ordinate BA contributions from other project colleagues and stakeholders, providing clear direction and prioritisation
- Attend and actively contribute to sprint planning, backlog refinement and sessions with the Storm delivery team
- Work closely with the client Product Owner, service designers and user researchers to ensure design decisions and research findings are translated promptly into actionable backlog items
- Maintain a forward-looking view of requirements across upcoming sprints and phases, identifying dependencies and gaps before they become blockers and mapping all projected BA activity onto a calendar (or similar) to ensure activity is completed in alignment with project milestones
- Escalate risks and blockers to programme leadership promptly, with a clear recommendation on resolution
Experience
- Proven experience as a senior or lead BA on a complex, multi-stakeholder digital programme
- Comfortable working at pace within an agile, sprint-based delivery environment
- Strong enough technically to engage meaningfully with developers and architects, and strong enough commercially to understand the programme milestones they are helping to protect
- A natural collaborator who can align people around shared priorities without needing to rely on authority
- Experience of public sector digital delivery, ideally within Scottish Government or a related environment, is desirable but not essential