We’re partnering with a large, forward-thinking organisation undergoing a major evolution in how it uses data, analytics, and AI to drive business value. As part of this journey, we’re looking for a Lead Business Analyst to play a pivotal role in shaping how business needs are translated into high-impact data and AI solutions.

This is a strategic leadership role sitting at the intersection of business, data, and technology. You’ll influence enterprise priorities, guide delivery across multiple initiatives, and elevate the maturity of business analysis within a fast-moving, low-process environment.

If you thrive where structure is still being built, enjoy turning ambiguity into clarity, and want to shape how data products deliver measurable outcomes, this role offers real scope and impact.

What You’ll Be Doing

Strategic Business & Stakeholder Leadership Partner with senior stakeholders including Directors, Heads of Function, and Executives

Lead outcome-focused discovery sessions centered on value, KPIs, and measurable impact

Translate complex business priorities into clear, structured data and analytics requirements

Act as a trusted advisor to both business and technical leaders

Manage expectations, trade-offs, and priorities across concurrent initiatives Enterprise Data & AI Enablement Lead business analysis across enterprise data warehouse, analytics, and AI programmes

Shape and prioritise data, analytics, and AI use cases aligned to strategic goals

Act as the primary interface between business leaders and data and AI engineering teams

Own the business meaning, intent, and value of enterprise datasets and data products

Ensure business requirements align with enterprise data architecture principles

Champion modern lakehouse and medallion architecture concepts across business demand

Validate KPI definitions, business logic, metrics, and data consumption patterns

Identify cross-domain data dependencies and impacts early Delivery Structure & Governance Bring clarity and structure to delivery where formal Agile and Product structures may be limited

Define requirement readiness standards and acceptance criteria

Ensure full traceability from business objectives through to delivered outputs

Support UAT planning, execution, and senior stakeholder sign-off

Maintain high-quality documentation and requirement governance

Align with delivery governance on intake, prioritisation, and release readiness Data Products & Critical Datasets Ownership Identify and prioritise business-critical datasets

Oversee the evolution of curated data layers and enterprise data products

Ensure downstream impacts of dataset changes are understood and managed

Track adoption, usage, and measurable business value from key datasets

Safeguard backward compatibility and change communication

Serve as the business-facing owner of dataset purpose and value People Leadership & Capability Building Lead, mentor, and develop a team of Business Analysts and Senior Business Analysts

Coach on analysis quality, data literacy, and stakeholder engagement

Review and assure analysis outputs across programmes

Raise the overall maturity of business analysis practices What Good Looks Like

You’ll bring both strategic perspective and hands-on delivery credibility, combining strong stakeholder presence with deep data fluency.

Skills & Expertise: Strong understanding of enterprise data warehousing and analytics ecosystems

Deep familiarity with medallion architecture, including bronze, silver, and gold data layers

Confident working with data models, transformations, and metrics logic

SQL capability for data validation, investigation, and analytical oversight

Excellent facilitation, documentation, and communication skills

Ability to challenge business demand and reshape it into outcome-driven use cases Experience: 10+ years’ experience in Business Analysis roles

Extensive experience within enterprise data, analytics, or platform environments

Proven track record working with senior business and technical stakeholders

Comfortable operating in evolving or low-process delivery environments

Demonstrated experience leading or mentoring other analysts Education Bachelor’s degree in Information Systems, Computer Science, Business, or a related discipline Core Competencies: Customer Focus

Communication & Influence

Business Acumen

Analytical Thinking & Innovation

Stakeholder Collaboration

Leading Change

Performance Management

Developing Others

Professional Integrity & Confidentiality Why This Role?

This is an opportunity to shape how an enterprise turns data into decisions, analytics into action, and AI into real business value.

You won’t just gather requirements. You’ll define how value is created, measured, and delivered across the organisation.

If you’re excited by impact, influence, and building capability at scale, we’d love to speak with you.

Full details available on request. All applications handled with strict confidentiality.

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