Business Analyst

Business Analyst (Technical) - Engineering Enablement | Public Sector | Leeds or Newcastle | [Rate £565 PD ) (Inside IR35)

Futureheads are partnering with a leading digital consultancy to find an experienced Technical Business Analyst to join a newly formed engineering enablement team. This is a hands-on, technically demanding role working at the heart of a major software delivery organisation, Embedded alongside software engineers, architects, and DevOps teams to help identify, build, and document the shared capabilities and technical enablers that underpin feature delivery.

This is not a traditional BA role. You will be working on engineering requirements - shaping the platforms, services, and technical components that delivery teams depend on. Your primary stakeholders are lead engineers, and you will need to be credible, curious, and confident enough to push back when needed.

What you will be doing

• Facilitating technical discussions to drive the right design solutions, working alongside an engineering strategy team on shared capabilities and technical enablers
• Analysing complex business and technical processes, applying lean thinking to identify opportunities, benefits, and risks
• Eliciting stakeholder and user needs, mapping and validating requirements, and ensuring solutions are reflective of those needs
• Scoping and writing technical user stories that meet the definition of ready, providing ongoing clarification through development and testing
• Supporting high quality evaluations of ideas and proof of concept activity, including ideation, discovery, scoping, success factors, risks, assumptions, proposals, and value realisation plans
• Engaging a wide range of technical stakeholders - primarily Product Managers, DevOps, software engineers, data engineers, architects, and security - to establish requirements and priorities
• Working closely with technical team members to ensure shared understanding of requirements for implementation
• Assimilating technical requirements quickly and challenging effectively while building strong working relationships in both one-to-one and group settings
• Supporting multiple strands of work across contexts, identifying and helping build services that span delivery teams

About you

• Recent, applied experience working within a software development domain - you understand how engineering teams work and can push back credibly
• Proven track record of providing authoritative guidance and steering delivery under broad direction, with accountability for significant outcomes across multiple technical workstreams (SFIA Level 5)
• Strong technical background with hands-on understanding of software development practices, QA, and testing approaches
• Ability to write engineering-focused user stories and requirements, enabling technical platforms and supporting behind-the-scenes engineering work
• Skilled at discovery and problem framing, with experience supporting ideation, proof of concept, and capability assessments
• Confident engaging lead engineers as your primary customers - not end users - and able to build credibility quickly in a technical environment
• Comfortable working across multiple teams and technical contexts simultaneously, identifying patterns and building shared services
• Strong analytical thinking with the ability to apply lean principles to optimise value in complex technical processes

Additional Context

This is a new team. Initial roles include a Tech Architect, Delivery Manager, and this BA position, with engineers to follow. Stakeholders are engaged and ready - delivery is expected to begin promptly. You will need to hit the ground running.

Note: Experience with Power Platform or low/no-code tools for office automation does not meet the software development requirement for this role. Candidates must demonstrate recent, applied software engineering domain experience.