Business Analyst - Delivery focused

Business Analyst (Delivery-Focused / Clarity-in-Complexity)

• Start 1st of June - 4 month initial contract
• Up to £600 per day - Inside IR35 - Paid through an umbrella
• Travel to site - Stevenage as required - no more than twice a week

The Business Analyst is responsible for bringing clarity, cohesion, and structure to complex delivery environments, ensuring that business intent is accurately translated into actionable, well-defined requirements that enable effective delivery.

Operating within ambiguous and fast-moving programmes, the Business Analyst plays a critical role in turning fragmented inputs into clear requirements, enabling informed decisions, and ensuring delivery remains aligned, prioritised, and executable.

The role focuses on supporting delivery at pace rather than shaping upstream strategy or value definition.

• Translate fragmented business needs into clear requirements and structured user stories
• Define acceptance criteria aligned to business intent
• Identify gaps, inconsistencies, and assumptions
• Maintain a single, trusted view of requirements

• Support definition and maintenance of epics, features, and user stories
• Ensure backlog items are well-defined, prioritised, and ready for delivery
• Work with Product and Delivery leads to refine and sequence scope
• Manage dependencies, constraints, and scope boundaries

• Act as a coordination point across business, product, and technology teams
• Facilitate workshops to align understanding and resolve ambiguity
• Ensure shared understanding across stakeholders

• Break down complex problems into structured components
• Present options with trade‑offs and implications
• Bring discipline to assumptions, risks, and dependencies

• Support delivery teams in clarifying requirements during build
• Participate in backlog refinement and delivery ceremonies
• Ensure alignment between business intent and delivered outputs

• Ensure requirements are traceable to business intent
• Maintain consistency across artefacts and changes
• Support validation through clear acceptance criteria

• Strong analytical and structuring capability
• Ability to work effectively in ambiguous environments
• Strong stakeholder engagement and facilitation skills
• Clear written and verbal communication
• Pragmatic, delivery‑focused mindset
• Understanding of digital, data, and platform environments

• Experience in a Business Analyst or similar delivery-focused role - Utilities/Telecoms/Large Capital/Construction
• Experience in complex, multi-stakeholder environments
• Experience supporting programme or transformation delivery
• Proven ability to bring structure to ambiguous problems

This role is:

• A delivery enabler
• A clarity driver in complex environments
• A structured thinker who enables progress

This role is not:

• Not responsible for defining strategic value propositions
• Not a Product Owner or Product Manager
• Not responsible for solution design
• Not a documentation-only role

We are committed to ensuring that all job applicants are treated equally, without discrimination because of gender, sexual orientation, marital or civil partner status, gender reassignment, race, colour, nationality, ethnic or national origin, religion or belief, disability or age.