Senior Business Analyst - Outside IR35

About Scrumconnect Consulting

Scrumconnect Consulting is a multi-award-winning digital consultancy, recognised for delivering impactful and innovative technology solutions across UK government departments. Our work has positively influenced the lives of over 40 million UK citizens.

About the role

We are looking for a contract Senior Business Analyst to help shape and deliver public sector digital services. You will understand how services and processes work today, define what needs to change, and turn that into clear requirements the team can build.

Key responsibilities

• Map current and future processes, including data flows between people, teams and systems.
• Run workshops and interviews with policy, operational and technical stakeholders.
• Write user stories, acceptance criteria and business rules, and manage the backlog with the product manager.
• Identify root causes of problems rather than symptoms.
• Analyse data and evidence to size problems and support decisions.
• Keep requirements traceable from problem to delivered feature.
• Assess the impact of change on users, processes and systems.

Essential skills and experience

• Significant experience as a business analyst in agile delivery teams.
• Strong process mapping skills, for example BPMN or service blueprints.
• Experience writing user stories, acceptance criteria and business rules.
• Strong facilitation and stakeholder management skills.
• Ability to work with complex data and turn it into clear findings.
• Experience with tools such as Jira, Confluence and Miro.

Desirable

• UK government or public sector experience.
• Experience working across discovery, Alpha and beta phases.
• BCS International Diploma in Business Analysis or equivalent.

Contract details

• £380-£400 per day, outside IR35.
• BPSS clearance required.
• Fully remote.