About the job

Principal Business Analyst

Crawley – Hybrid, 2 days a week in the office

I’m working with an established organisation in Crawley that is looking for an experienced Principal Business Analyst to join its change function and lead a small team of four Business Analysts.

This is a really good opportunity for someone who enjoys leading and developing people but doesn’t want to move away from actually doing Business Analysis.

The team has recently been through a restructure, so they’re looking for someone who can provide some stability and direction, help develop the BAs and create clear, consistent ways of working across the function.

At the same time, this is definitely not a role where you’ll just manage from a distance. You’ll remain hands-on and get involved in some of the more complex change initiatives across the business.

What will you be doing?

• You’ll lead, support and develop the BA team while helping to shape how Business Analysis is delivered across the organisation.
• On the hands-on side, you’ll be involved in things like requirements elicitation and management, running workshops, AS-IS/TO-BE process mapping, business cases, user stories and acceptance criteria.
• You’ll work closely with senior business stakeholders as well as Project Management, Architecture, Technology and other teams to make sure business needs are properly understood and translated into workable solutions.
• You’ll also help allocate BA resource across the change portfolio and improve the frameworks, tools, templates and standards the team uses.

Ideally, you’ll have:

• Strong experience as a Senior, Lead or Principal Business Analyst
• Recent experience line managing Business Analysts, rather than purely mentoring or leading them on individual projects
• Experience developing and supporting BAs through 1:1s, objectives, performance and career development
• Strong hands-on BA skills across requirements, workshops, process modelling, user stories and acceptance criteria
• Experience establishing or improving BA standards, frameworks or ways of working
• Confidence working with senior business and technology stakeholders
• Experience working across Agile, Waterfall and/or hybrid environments
• Experience delivering complex business and technology change

Experience within a regulated or similarly complex organisation would be useful, and qualifications such as BCS, CBAP or PMI-PBA would be a bonus rather than a requirement.

Ultimately, I’m looking for someone who is equally comfortable leading a team of BAs and rolling their sleeves up to do the BA work themselves.

Location: Crawley

Hybrid: 2 days per week in the office