Summary: The Senior Business Analyst role at the Health Research Authority (HRA) focuses on delivering digital systems through comprehensive business analysis. The ideal candidate will possess extensive experience in the full business analysis lifecycle, particularly within Scrum or SAFe frameworks, and will be responsible for requirement gathering, process mapping, and documentation. This position requires collaboration with various stakeholders to ensure that proposed solutions align with business needs. The role is designed for a flexible working environment, emphasizing inclusivity and diversity.

Key Responsibilities:

• Apply structured approaches to identify, investigate, analyze, and communicate complex business problems and opportunities.
• Analyze business goals, objectives, functions, and processes to support requirement definition.
• Identify, analyze, challenge, and validate business and user requirements.
• Use appropriate requirements management life cycle methods to complete project-related tasks.
• Ensure proposed solutions meet business and user needs.
• Understand the impact of potential changes on business processes, systems, data, roles, and responsibilities.
• Develop models and system requirements for bespoke IT systems or software packages.
• Identify business scenarios and develop acceptance criteria for functionality development.

Key Skills:

• Recognized business analyst certification (BCS Professional or IIBA CCBA/CBAP).
• Experience in multi-stakeholder environments (commercial, public sector, or NHS).
• Excellent presentation, oral, written, and communication skills.
• Proficient in Microsoft 365 and various business analysis and project management methodologies.
• Ability to analyze complex logical problems and translate them into effective system requirements.
• Experience working in an agile setting and mentoring junior colleagues.
• Strong analytical thinking and problem-solving skills.
• Understanding of a clinical research setting (desirable).

Salary (Rate): £52,809

City: Nottingham

Country: United Kingdom

Working Arrangements: remote

IR35 Status: fixed-term

Seniority Level: Senior

Industry: Other