Job Purpose

We are seeking a Senior Business Analyst to join our product development team and play a key role in shaping enterprise-level Unclassified (OSINT) data products. This role requires strong expertise in business and data analysis, stakeholder engagement, and Agile delivery, with the ability to bridge complex business needs with technical execution. You will be working as part of a multi-functional team based in Croydon reporting to Demand Management Director, shaping our demands and deliverables within our Single Intelligence Environment. You should be self-motivated, a natural problem solver, and used to operating at a high-performance level, acting as a main driver feeding the teams with quality specifications.

How you will contribute at [Employer hidden]

• Partner with colleagues in Product, RD&A and Development functions to capture and refine business and functional requirements.
• Deliver high-quality product specifications for data products, ensuring alignment with [Employer hidden] and overall technology strategy.
• Perform in-depth analysis of Product requirements, data flows, and system integrations to inform product design.
• Break down epics, features, and user stories with clear acceptance criteria and definitions of “done.”
• Collaborate with product and technical stakeholders to inform the mapping of requirements to technical features and user stories with clear implementation agreement.
• Challenge and refine requirements to uncover real business problems and drive impactful solutions.
• Collaborate with QA to define test strategies and support test case development.
• Continuously review development progress, providing feedback to ensure product delivery meets specifications.
• Support backlog structuring, impact analysis, gap analysis, and data-driven decision making.
• Leads backlog refinement and participates in stand-ups, sprint planning, and retrospectives.

Ideal Skills and Experience

• 8+ years of experience as a Business Analyst, ideally in data product environments.
• Strong experience in business and data analysis, stakeholder engagement, and Agile delivery.
• Deep understanding of enterprise web applications, APIs, and DevOps practices.
• Experience of working in data modelling with data architects and data quality analysis.
• Hands on experience working with APIs, relational /Non-relational D/Bs using scripting languages and/or other tools to draw insights/analysis.
• Working knowledge of data platforms involving ETLs (e.g. medallion architecture).
• Working knowledge of AWS Cloud platforms and services.
• Passion for data and highly data literate.
• Excellent networking skills with a desire to work collaboratively to achieve goals; experience of working in multidisciplinary agile teams.
• Excellent negotiation skills with commitment and ability to bring together people and processes to drive forward improvements/changes.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills with the ability to communicate effectively and confidently with technical and non-technical colleagues across departments.

Desirable Skills

• Familiarity with OSINT workflows, data analysis, or intelligence platforms.
• Graph data modelling – understanding nodes, relationships, and properties.
• Understanding of semantic data / ontologies.

Benefits

• 27 days of annual leave
• Healthy half (0.5 day leave every 6 months for wellbeing)
• Leave - study/ volunteer/ reserve forces
• Pension plan (6% employer contribution)
• Private medical insurance – BUPA
• Maternity (100% of basic salary for the first 26 weeks followed by Statutory Maternity Pay)
• Paternity (100% of basic salary for 6 weeks)
• Life cover
• Access to LinkedIn Learning
• Access to an on-site gym

Life at [Employer hidden]

We believe [Employer hidden] is truly a great place to work. Our values and leadership code drive everything we do, and we understand that the right behaviours and culture will always result in the best outcomes for our customers, our colleagues, our shareholders, and our business. We provide a supportive, stretching, and dynamic environment with the ability for you to grow rapidly, both personally and professionally. [Employer hidden] is an inclusive and equal opportunities employer and encourages applications regardless of age, race, disability, religion / belief, sexual orientation, gender reassignment, marriage or civil partnership, pregnancy/maternity, or gender. Although this role is advertised as full time, [Employer hidden] believed that flexibility at work can provide many significant benefits both to our colleagues and the business. We already work in a hybrid style across all offices and regions and can support different ways of working and offer different flexible working arrangements. So, if you are interested and have any requirements or needs in the way you would like to work, please apply, and speak to us about this. We will always consider part time or flexible applications.