Senior Business Analyst

The Bank of England, in partnership with Inspire People are seeking a high-calibre Business Analyst with strong experience delivering technical and software development projects, alongside a proven track record in large-scale system and data migration programmes within financial or regulatory environments, who want to deliver high-impact digital change at the heart of the UK's financial system. Hybrid working in Leeds. £49,360-£55,530 plus 8% benefits allowance, 10-25% discretionary bonus and non-contributory pension. 21 Month FTC.

As a Senior Business Analyst, you must be able to hit the ground running, proficient in business analysis (requirements elicitation, analysis & management, process mapping, data mapping etc.) with strong stakeholder relationship management / soft skills.

Role Overview:

Business Analysts enable the Bank to meet its objectives by working on technology change initiatives. As part of cross functional teams and working closely with our business colleagues, BAs elicit, analyse, validate and manage and create a shared understanding of requirements to enable successful implementation of our change initiatives.

You will join the Central Services Tower, which supports the technology platforms and systems that underpin the Bank's internal operations. The team works on change initiatives that improve how core services are delivered across the organisation, including enhancements to internal systems, processes and data capabilities. The role will involve supporting technology and data change programmes that help modernise internal platforms and improve how information is managed and used across the Bank.

As a Business Analyst within the Bank, typical role responsibilities include:

• Requirements gathering and process engineering analysis to provide detailed analysis to ensure appropriate solutions are identified and designed to deliver the right business outcomes.
• Producing outputs at different levels (high level to functional specifications) to a high quality within the standards set by the BA management team.
• Providing both functional and technical expertise to the Technology teams in producing detailed requirements documentation (e.g., detailed process maps, use case specifications, wireframes, logical data models), facilitating workshops with the business utilising a variety of business analysis methods.

About You

Ideally, you will be someone with strong Business Analysis experience and a background working on technology-led change. You may have supported large-scale upgrade or migration programmes, including system or data migration, and be comfortable working closely with technical teams to understand and document requirements that support delivery.

You will be comfortable working across multiple projects and adapting to changing priorities, with a practical, hands-on approach to analysis. You will have strong stakeholder skills but be equally comfortable operating in more technically driven environments, supporting activities such as operational readiness, system transition and ensuring business continuity during change.

Essential Criteria

• Proven track record delivering technology-led projects such as system upgrades, platform modernisation or data migration initiatives as a Business Analyst, ideally within financial or regulated environments.
• Outcomes and impact of delivering successful change clearly demonstrated
• Comfortable working across multiple projects and adapting to changing priorities within a fast-moving portfolio.
• Strong end-to-end Business Analysis capability across the full SDLC, with experience in both Agile and Waterfall methodologies.
• Expertise in eliciting, analysing, communicating and documenting business and solution requirements using a range of BA techniques (e.g. wireframes, use cases, data models)
• Skilled in developing and using operating models and business processes, including BPMN 2.0
• Excellent stakeholder management and facilitation skills, able to engage large and diverse groups and manage uncertainty effectively

Desirable Criteria

• Experience supporting data or platform migration programmes, particularly from on-premise to cloud environments.
• Exposure to cloud platforms such as Azure and modern data technologies (e.g. Databricks).
• Experience working with large or complex enterprise datasets.
• Familiarity with data analysis techniques such as data mapping and source-to-target mapping.
• Operating at SFIA level 4.
• Degree-level education and/or recognised Business Analysis qualification (e.g. BCS, IIBA).

Benefits

In addition to the base salary of £49,360 - £55,530, you can expect a planned, transparent progression with learning and development tailored to your role, and a culture encouraging inclusion and diversity, plus the following benefits:

• A non-contributory, career average pension giving you a guaranteed retirement benefit of 1/95th of your annual salary for every year worked. There is the option to increase your pension (to 1/50th) or decrease (to 1/120th) in exchange for salary through our flexible benefits programme each year.
• An annual discretionary performance award based on a current award pool (10%-25%).
• An 8% benefits allowance with the option to take as salary or purchase a wide range of flexible benefits.
• 25 days annual leave with option to buy up to 13 additional days through flexible benefits.
• Private medical insurance and income protection.
• Dental cover.
• Interest-free season ticket loan.

The Bank takes pride in its people, with backgrounds and experiences as diverse as the solutions they provide. You'll enjoy flexible working opportunities, a strong sense of community and well-being, and a collective mission to promote the good of the people of the UK. All of which add up to make the Bank a hugely rewarding place to work.

For more information, please contact Andrew Medhurst or Zymante Gintalaite (Zee) at Inspire People, who are engaged on an exclusive basis by the Bank of England, or apply now.