Senior Business Analyst

Bank of England 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. Salary up to £70k inc. allowances and a non-contributory pension. 21 Month FTC to begin with.

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 be joining the Central Services Tower, working within the Tech Modernisation portfolio focused on upgrading software and hardware across the Bank that are reaching end of life. This includes a range of projects across application, infrastructure, network and Middleware remediation. The role is heavily technology-focused, working closely with engineering teams to support system upgrades, platform changes and migrations, including elements of data migration.

This role will also involve supporting SharePoint migration activity, including content mapping, user acceptance testing and working closely with stakeholders to ensure a smooth transition.

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 (eg, 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 ideally have recent experience supporting SharePoint migration projects, including content mapping, user acceptance testing and stakeholder engagement.

You should 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

• Demonstrable recent experience supporting SharePoint migration projects
• 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 (eg wireframes, use cases, data models).
• Experience in process modelling using BPMN 2.0.
• Excellent stakeholder management and facilitation skills, able to engage large and diverse groups and manage uncertainty effectively.

Desirable Criteria

• Awareness of business architecture principles and frameworks.
• Experience in data management, including data journeys, analysis, integration, and migration.
• Experience in developing customer journeys and user research
• Certification in recognised delivery methods such as Agile or DevOps.
• Understanding of product and project management practices, including resource and time management.
• Operating at SFIA level 4

Benefits

In addition to the base salary, 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 Zymante Gintalaite (Zee) at Inspire People, who are engaged on an exclusive basis by the Bank of England, or apply now.