Job Title: Lead Business Analyst
Location: Hybrid (Portsmouth - 2 to 3 days per week)
Salary: £48,000 - £53,000 Dependent on experience

About the Role

Our Portsmouth based client are seeking a Lead Business Analyst to join their growing team. This hybrid role offers the opportunity to work 2-3 days a week on-site, with flexibility for remote working. As a Lead Business Analyst, you will play a key role in shaping, maturing, and elevating the Business Analysis (BA) function across the organisation, while remaining hands-on and directly involved in the delivery of strategic and complex technology projects.

The Lead Business Analyst will lead by example, delivering high-quality analysis, mentoring team members, and driving best practices and standards across the BA community. This is an exciting opportunity to influence and build a scalable BA capability in a supportive, collaborative environment.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead and Shape the BA Function:
• Define and implement standards, tools, and frameworks to mature the BA practice.
• Establish a shared understanding of best practices and consistent documentation/analysis approaches.
• Support recruitment, onboarding, and development of business analysts.
• Promote a culture of continuous improvement and knowledge sharing across the BA team.
• Work directly with stakeholders across business and technology teams to gather, analyse, and document business and system requirements.
• Facilitate workshops, interviews, and stakeholder meetings to define and prioritise needs.
• Translate business problems into clear and concise requirements for solution design and delivery.
• Support the delivery life cycle from inception through to implementation and post-launch review.

• Project Delivery and Leadership:
• Lead analysis work across multiple projects concurrently, ensuring alignment with strategic goals and objectives.
• Act as a trusted advisor to business stakeholders, ensuring clarity and quality of requirements and proposed solutions.

Required Experience:

• Proven experience in a senior or lead business analysis role within a technology project environment.
• Strong experience working on digital, data or transformation programmes.
• Excellent stakeholder engagement, facilitation, and communication skills.
• Experience working across the full project life cycle, including Agile and Waterfall methodologies.
• Ability to balance strategic thinking with a hands-on delivery mindset.
• Comfortable managing priorities across multiple projects simultaneously.

Desirable:

• Experience in mentoring or line management of other Business Analysts.
• Knowledge of tools such as Jira, Confluence, and business process modelling tools.
• Relevant certifications (eg, BCS, IIBA, Agile BA, or equivalent).

Benefits:

• Flexible hybrid working - typically 2-3 days per week in our Portsmouth office.
• A chance to shape and grow a BA function with leadership support.
• A collaborative, inclusive, and forward-thinking team culture.
• Opportunities for personal and professional development.
• Competitive salary and benefits package.

If this role is of interest, please share your profile and we will contact you at our earliest possible convenience.