Ascent People Ltd
Senior Business Analyst
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Senior Business Analyst (Data-Focused) – Contract (Outside IR35)
Location: Liverpool, Hybrid
Contract Length: Initial 6-month contract
Day Rate: £450–£550 per day (Outside IR35)
The Role
Our client is seeking a highly experienced, Contract Senior Business Analyst to join their IT function on an initial six-month contract.
The BA contractor will produce comprehensive requirements documentation and support successful delivery of key enterprise-level digital platform solutions.
This is an excellent opportunity for an experienced Business Analyst with extensive experience on data-focused projects, who can hit the ground running, quickly engage with C-level stakeholders, define requirements, and drive successful project delivery.
Essential Requirements
- Enterprise & Global Experience: 5+ years of Business Analysis experience in large-scale, global, or multi-national enterprise environments, with a proven track record of delivering end-to-end data, business intelligence, and reporting transformations across distributed teams and matrixed structures.
- Knowledge of data solutions: Hands-on functional understanding of data warehousing/lakehouse solutions.
- Data Requirements: Skill in documenting source-to-target data mappings, data dictionaries and validating pipeline outputs against raw source systems; expertise in defining Data Quality, defining data entity relationship diagrams and experience with data integrations within complex internal environments.
- Knowledge of data concepts: Master Data Management (MDM) concepts, metadata-driven architecture, and enterprise data security (RLS).
- Reporting & Analytics: Proven ability to define complex KPI logic and semantic model requirements, alongside designing executive-level dashboard concepts in Power BI.
- Methodology & Delivery: Exceptional requirement-gathering capabilities (user stories, functional/non-functional specs and data modelling), stakeholder management up to C-suite level, and proficiency in Agile environments (Jira).
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Desirable Requirements
- Education: Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Data Analytics, Business Information Systems, or equivalent experience.
- Microsoft Fabric Ecosystem: Hands-on functional understanding of the Microsoft Fabric ecosystem (Lakehouses, Warehouses, OneLake, Data Factory, Power BI).
Contract Details
- Initial 6-month contract
- Outside IR35
- £450–£550 per day
- Hybrid working (typically 3 days onsite / 2 days from home)
- Immediate requirement with interviews taking place shortly and a start date expected within 2–3 weeks.
If you are an experienced Senior Business Analyst with a proven track record of delivering successful data-focused projects, we'd love to hear from you.
Ascent People is acting as the employment business for this role, and we will consider applicants of all ages and backgrounds.
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