Senior Business Analyst with Azure DevOps

Agile Delivery and Requirements Management

Work within persistent Agile squads to support the end-to-end delivery of change initiatives.

Elicit, analyse, document and validate business requirements across Health Transformation and Legacy Health domains.

Translate business needs into structured epics, features, user stories, process models and functional requirements.

Create and maintain high-quality user stories with clear, unambiguous and testable acceptance criteria, using Gherkin or equivalent approaches where appropriate.

Support backlog refinement, prioritisation and sprint planning alongside Product Owners and Delivery Leads.

Ensure requirements remain aligned to product priorities, business outcomes and customer needs.

Business Analysis and Process Design

Conduct current-state and future-state analysis across systems, processes, customer journeys and operating models.

Facilitate workshops, interviews and discovery sessions with business and technology stakeholders.

Produce fit-for-purpose analysis artefacts, including as-is and to-be process maps, system interaction models, business rules, data requirements, functional requirements and traceability records.

Identify and manage impacts, dependencies, assumptions, risks and opportunities arising from proposed change.

Challenge and validate requirements to ensure they address the underlying problem and align to strategic goals.

Cross-Functional Collaboration

Act as the bridge between business stakeholders and technical delivery teams, creating shared understanding of requirements and proposed solutions.

Work closely with Engineers, Solution Architects and Quality Engineering teams throughout the sprint lifecycle to clarify requirements and resolve delivery queries.

Participate actively in daily stand-ups, sprint planning, backlog refinement, sprint reviews and retrospectives.

Promote a collaborative, one-team approach across onshore and offshore delivery colleagues.

Solution Design and Change Delivery

Support solution design by ensuring proposed solutions accurately reflect business needs and agreed outcomes.

Collaborate with Architects and Engineers to define functional and non-functional requirements.

Contribute to impact assessments, dependency analysis, integration considerations and change planning.

Maintain traceability between business needs, requirements, design decisions, test coverage and delivered outcomes.

Quality Assurance and Business Acceptance

Work with Quality Engineering teams to ensure acceptance criteria are measurable, testable and aligned to business intent.

Support test scenario definition, defect triage, solution validation and business acceptance activities.

Support User Acceptance Testing planning, execution and business sign-off where required.

Validate delivered solutions against agreed requirements, acceptance criteria and intended outcomes.

Continuous Improvement and Capability Development

Contribute to the continuous improvement of Business Analysis standards, templates and delivery practices.

Support adoption of Agile, Lean and product-centric ways of working.

Promote effective use of Jira, Confluence and agreed knowledge repositories.

Share knowledge and good practice across squads and the wider Business Analysis community.

Support onboarding and mentoring of less experienced analysts where required.