Job Description
Senior Business Analyst
Location: Newcastle-based (team-defined hybrid working with occasional travel)
Rate: £450 - £470 a day inside IR35
Clearance: BPSS required
Contract Type: 3 Month contract – Likely to be extended
An opportunity is available for an experienced Senior Business Analyst to support a major public-sector transformation programme focused on health and disability services.
The role sits within a multidisciplinary delivery team responsible for progressing the next phase of a developing data strategy and reviewing an existing data platform. The successful candidate will play a key role in shaping future data capabilities, defining strategic direction, and supporting scalable service delivery.
Key Responsibilities
* Lead requirements elicitation in a strategic context, helping shape direction and reduce ambiguity
* Engage effectively with stakeholders across multidisciplinary teams, including technical and non-technical functions
* Translate business needs into clear data requirements, including:
* Measures
* Dimensions
* Attributes
* Business definitions
* Logical data sourcing rules
* Develop business use cases to define capabilities required for a future-state data platform
* Support the creation of a “North Star” vision for data within the programme
* Conduct options analysis in collaboration with Solution Architects and Product Leads
* Contribute to the design of data onboarding processes to support platform scalability
* Support implementation of a data governance framework across the organisation
* Assist in evaluating and improving data quality and suitability for solution
Essential Skills & Experience
* Strong experience working as a Senior Business Analyst
* Proven experience in Big Data and/or Data Warehouse environments
* Ability to translate business requirements into data logic and structures
* Experience producing business definitions and logical data sourcing rules
* Hands-on experience with data profiling and assessing data quality
* Understanding of:
* Data platform architectures
* Data models and schemas
* Data consumption and reporting tools
* Strong stakeholder engagement skills across complex, multi-team environments
* Experience working in strategic or transformation settings