Job Title: Lead Business Analyst (VP)
Location: Northampton, UK
Job type: Contract- Hybrid-2 days onsite
Role summary
Enterprise‑aware leader working in highly complex problem spaces across multiple products/services; community leader and primary owner of senior stakeholder relationships.
Key responsibilities
- Set direction for business analysis across programmes/enterprise; align solutions to strategy and vision.
- Define scope/method for enterprise‑level modelling to support strategic planning.
- Lead exploration and delivery of business process improvements at scale; oversee implementation.
- Apply Enterprise/Business Architecture at “working” level to shape operating models and capabilities.
- Set direction for methods & tools; drive consistent adoption and collaboration.
- Direct requirements strategy for complex portfolios and enable long‑term decisions.
- Develop engagement strategies; act as escalation point to resolve complex conflicts.
- Set direction for platform/system capability analysis and communicate effectively across users, dev teams and suppliers.
- Recommend testing value and ensure traceability to functionality.
- Advise on user‑experience approach across programmes.
Mandatory (Must‑have) attributes
- Proven leadership across strategy‑level analysis, enterprise modelling, requirements strategy, stakeholder engagement, and methods & tools direction.
- Ability to bridge business and technical perspectives, including supplier engagement.
Nice‑to‑have attributes
- Hands‑on Enterprise/Business Architecture planning experience.
- Track record scaling best practice across communities and mentoring senior BAs.