Lead Business Analyst

🔒 Confidential Employer
Posted 24 April 2026
LOCATION
London
TYPE
Full-time
LEVEL
Mid-Senior level
SALARY
£70,000 / year
CATEGORY
IT
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SKILLS

Business Analysis BA Leadership Business System Design Stakeholder Management Jira Microsoft Tools

FULL DESCRIPTION

Lead Business Analyst

[Employer hidden — view at passion-project.co.uk] is recruiting a Lead Business Analyst for a leading retailer. The role involves managing the BA function, leading a team, providing business change capabilities, and designing business systems. The position is a 12-month fixed-term contract.

Key Responsibilities:

  • Responsible for managing and building the BA function within the IT department.
  • You will be in charge of the management of a small team of Business Analyst and you will develop this team of BA’s.
  • Providing best practice insight and business change capabilities
  • Provide consultancy to business areas & problem solving
  • Business analysis and business systems design
  • Evaluate potential external application resources and package solutions
  • Assist in Risk Analysis
  • Microsoft tools in support of the function (Excel, Word, Visio)
  • You will ensure design and testing aligns to the original objectives of a project
  • Working closely with the project management, architecture, operations and security to scope solution development, functional and non-functional requirements.
  • Ensure suitable user documentation and training are provided as part of the solution development process.
  • Excellent verbal and written communication skills, with good senior-level stakeholder management soft skills and competencies

Required Skills:

  • Extensive experience in a Business Analysis and/or BA Leadership role
  • Strong analysis and business system design skills
  • Proven management/leadership experiences
  • Broad business knowledge such as digital, infrastructure, operations etc.
  • Thought leader
  • Previous use/admin of Jira for managing portions of project lifecycle (e.g. backlog, project tasks and testing scenarios)
  • Excellent knowledge in using Microsoft tools.
  • Stakeholder management
  • Background: retail, airline, hotels would be ideal.

- Compensation- £60-£70k Basic + package

- LocationLondon

- Schedulepermanent

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