Lead Business Analyst – Agile Transformation & Complex Program Delivery Engineering · Hammersmith

We are looking for an experienced Lead Business Analyst to support a complex Agile transformation and large-scale delivery program. This role will lead the analysis, scoping, dependency mapping, and planning readiness activities required to move strategic initiatives from concept through discovery, planning, delivery, release, and operational handover.

The Lead Business Analyst will work across Product, Engineering, Architecture, Infrastructure, Operations, Compliance, Integrations, Data, and Delivery teams to ensure that business needs are clearly understood, requirements are structured, dependencies are visible, and teams enter Joint Planning / PI Planning with enough clarity to make realistic delivery commitments.

This role is suited to someone who can operate at both strategic and detailed levels: facilitating senior stakeholder alignment, challenging assumptions, shaping complex scope, and ensuring that analysis outputs translate into clear backlogs, features, acceptance criteria, risks, dependencies, and decision records.

• Lead the elicitation, analysis, and documentation of business, product, operational, and technical requirements across complex initiatives.
• Translate business objectives and stakeholder needs into clearly structured features, epics, user stories, acceptance criteria, and supporting analysis artefacts.
• Ensure requirements are aligned to strategic outcomes, OKRs, product goals, operational readiness, and measurable business value.
• Support Product Owners and Product Leads in shaping initiatives into MVPs, releases, and incremental delivery slices.
• Ensure scope is defined clearly enough to support delivery, while remaining flexible enough to adapt as learning emerges during Agile delivery.

• Lead the analysis work required to prepare initiatives for Joint Planning / PI Planning events.
• Work with Product Owners, Technical Project Managers, Engineering Managers, Scrum Masters, Architects, and team representatives to prepare feature definitions, program backlogs, dependency inputs, risks, assumptions, and planning materials.
• Support the creation of planning boards, dependency maps, confidence-vote inputs, ROAM risk inputs, and initiative-level readiness checklists.
• Ensure teams enter planning with a shared understanding of the problem, scope, constraints, dependencies, and intended outcomes.
• Help identify whether work is suitable for Scrum delivery, Kanban flow, or a hybrid delivery approach.

• Identify, document, visualise, and maintain cross-team and cross-system dependencies.
• Map dependencies across product teams, platform teams, integration teams, infrastructure teams, operational teams, compliance teams, and data/reporting teams.
• Ensure dependencies are visible in Jira, Confluence, planning boards, dependency logs, and governance forums.
• Support Scrum of Scrums / dependency forums by ensuring blockers, risks, and cross-team impacts are clearly articulated and owned.
• Highlight dependency risks early and escalation where delivery confidence is impacted.

• Facilitate workshops with senior stakeholders, Product, Engineering, Operations, Compliance, Commercial, and Delivery teams.
• Drive structured conversations to clarify ambiguity, resolve conflicting priorities, and support informed decision-making.
• Produce clear decision logs, options analysis, impact assessments, and recommendation papers where required.
• Help stakeholders distinguish between business need, product scope, technical solution, operational constraint, and delivery risk.
• Support leadership by providing clear visibility of what is known, what is unknown, what is blocked, and what decisions are required.

• Support the adoption of Agile ways of working across complex delivery environments.
• Champion strong backlog hygiene, Definition of Ready, Definition of Done, dependency transparency, iterative delivery, and outcome-focused planning.
• Help teams move away from large, ambiguous project scope into structured, incremental delivery.
• Support the creation and improvement of Agile analysis standards, templates, and working practices.
• Coach and guide other Business Analysts in Agile requirements practices, story mapping, backlog structuring, and dependency analysis.

• Create and maintain high-quality analysis artefacts, including feature briefs, story maps, process flows, data flows, RACI matrices, decision logs, dependency matrices, readiness checklists, and impact assessments.
• Ensure traceability from business objectives through to features, epics, stories, acceptance criteria, risks, dependencies, and delivery outcomes.
• Support initiative-level reporting and governance by providing clear analysis inputs into status, confidence, risks, dependencies, and scope change.
• Maintain documentation standards across Jira,…