Investigo
Lead Business Analyst
Metropolitan Borough of Solihull
Posted about 15 hours ago
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Lead Business Analyst
Permanent
Hybrid Working - Solihull
Responsibilities
- Provide line management to the Business Analyst team, including workload allocation, performance management, coaching, and professional development.
- Deputise for the Project Director to represent Business Architecture & Business Analysis interests at senior stakeholder and governance forums.
- Build and lead a Business Analyst community of practice, establishing shared standards, tools, templates, and promoting best practice ways of working across the BA discipline.
- Oversee the Business Analysis artefacts for consistency and quality across the team, ensuring requirements and analysis outputs across the team meet agreed standards and quality expectations.
- Provide end-to-end business analysis support to strategy and target operating model (TOM) work, bringing BA rigour to business architecture activities and helping shape the future-state operating model.
- Lead the most strategic and complex Business Analysis assignments across projects and programmes, setting the standard for the wider BA team.
- Elicit, document, prioritise, validate, and communicate business, functional, and non-functional requirements, user stories and related acceptance criteria across projects and programmes.
- Perform gap analyses and contribute to business case development and benefit/value articulation.
- Maintain end to end traceability from business objectives and problem statements through to requirements (including regulatory requirements), solution design, testing and delivered outcomes.
- Support stakeholders in shaping business needs and future-state designs, identifying risks, constraints & dependencies.
- Lead discovery activities including current-/target-state analysis and feasibility assessment.
- Facilitate workshops for requirements gathering, problem-solving, and solution design.
- Work collaboratively with Solution Architects to support technology options evaluation.
- Liaise across business teams, delivery teams, and external suppliers.
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Specialist/Technical Expertise
Essential
- Business analysis experience gained within a business architecture practice, with working knowledge of strategy and target operating model (TOM) concepts and frameworks (e.g. TOGAF, BIZBOK).
- Proven line management experience, with the ability to lead, coach and develop a team of Business Analysts.
- Experience building and leading a community of practice or centre of excellence.
- Experience in process modelling, data modelling, and requirements engineering.
- Ability to interpret, challenge, and validate complex business needs.
- Proficiency in business analysis toolsets and modelling notations (e.g., BPMN, UML).
- Strong analytical and problem‑solving skills with the ability to handle ambiguity.
- Excellent written and verbal communication, including presenting complex information clearly and influencing senior stakeholders.
- Experience developing business cases and conducting options appraisals.
- Comfortable leading workshops and influencing stakeholders at all levels.
- Experience in agile and waterfall development methodologies and working in cross-functional delivery teams.
- Ability to work on a range of initiatives concurrently and comfortable managing competing priorities.
- Experience in highly regulated sectors.
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Desirable
- Previous experience in a Lead BA, BA Practice Lead, or similar Business Analysis leadership role.
- Professional Business Analysis qualifications (e.g. BCS International Diploma in Business Analysis; IIBA certifications).
- Business architecture qualification (e.g. TOGAF, BIZBOK, OMG-Certified).
- Experience supporting software procurement activities.
- Experience in utilities.
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