Principal Business Analyst

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This range is provided by HM Land Registry. Your actual pay will be based on your skills and experience — talk with your recruiter to learn more.

£61,923 - £66,656 (dependent on location) plus 29% pension contribution and Civil Service benefits. Flexible, hybrid working from a choice of 7 HMLR offices.

HM Land Registry (HMLR) is undergoing a large digital transformation programme - modernising the systems and services that safeguard property ownership worth over £7 trillion across England and Wales. HMLR's ambition is to become the world’s leading land registry for speed, simplicity and an open approach to data.

As a Principal Business Analyst, you will take on a senior leadership role within one of HMLR’s major transformation programmes within their Technology & Transformation portfolio, leading all BA activity, shaping how business analysis is delivered and helping to influence how change happens across the organisation. This is a role with real visibility and impact, offering the opportunity to work closely with senior leaders and play a key part in HM Land Registry’s future direction.

You will lead and support a community of Business Analysts within your programme, creating clarity around priorities, maintaining high standards and helping others develop and succeed. The role offers a rare chance to run a “mini BA practice” within a large organisation, combining autonomy with the support of an established, mature BA function. It is well suited to experienced Business Analysts who enjoy leading others, influencing at a senior level and want to develop toward broader leadership roles while working on meaningful, long-term change.

If you would like to find out more about the role, the Business Analysis profession and what it’s like to work at HMLR, a Hiring Manager Q&A session where you can virtually 'meet the team' will be held via Teams on Thursday, 15th of January 12:30. Please register your interest here:

• Lead and shape business analysis activity across a domain or programme, supporting design, problem-solving, and delivery at an organisational level.
• Build strong relationships with senior leaders across Transformation & Technology and the wider organisation to agree scope, priorities, and analysis needs.
• Own the effectiveness of business analysis within the domain or programme, providing early insight, guidance, and assurance to senior stakeholders and delivery teams.
• Ensure high-quality business process testing and acceptance activity, driving continuous improvement where needed.
• Set and embed appropriate business analysis tools, methods, frameworks, and ways of working, aligned to professional standards.
• Lead and develop Business Analysts through line and task management, building capability, managing demand, and making best use of available resource.
• Act as a senior leader within the BA Practice and contribute to wider leadership across HM Land Registry.
• Professional qualification in Business Analysis from a recognised provider (e.g BCS, IIBA, PMI) or working towards it.
• Significant IT Business Analysis experience including experience in a leadership role leading teams or programmes of work.
• Extensive and proven business analysis experience across a variety of delivery methodologies including Agile and iterative software development.
• Strong experience of business modelling and business process testing, using a range of industry tools and techniques incl. BPMN.
• Experience of leading domain/programme level business analysis activity.
• Ability to coach and share own experience of being high performing business analyst.
• Experience of working across organisational boundaries, expertly communicating with stakeholders to build influence and credibility.
• Skilled and experienced planner, implementer and leader of change in a complex and evolving environment.

HMLR believe that a blended approach to where you work that enables some time working from home, as well as in the office may give you an improved experience and has clear business benefits. We expect everyone to spend at least 60% of their working time in the office…