Business Analyst (Contract) - Outside IR35
📍 Sheffield (Grosvenor House) | Hybrid (2 days onsite)
💼 Full-time Contract
💰 £300 per day (Outside IR35)
🚀 The Opportunity
We're looking for a proactive and driven Business Analyst to join a high-impact DevX Standards & Controls team within a leading global technology environment.
You'll play a key role in shaping solutions that improve developer experience across the software development lifecycle-ensuring smooth, compliant, and frictionless delivery to production. This is a dynamic role working across multiple applications, offering variety and influence.
🔍 What You'll Be Doing
- Act as a collaborative and inquisitive member of the product team
- Understand customer needs and translate them into clear, actionable solutions
- Work closely with developers, technical leads, and stakeholders
- Produce high-quality functional requirements, user stories, and acceptance criteria
- Create process flows, system designs, and data flow diagrams
- Support testing and validation of solutions
- Drive customer-centric design and minimise impact of change
- Deliver presentations, handovers, and knowledge transfer
- Contribute to continuous improvement and innovation
🧠 What We're Looking For
Essential Skills:
- Proactive self-starter with strong problem-solving ability
- Solid systems and application analysis experience
- Experience working with APIs and development teams
- Strong communication and stakeholder engagement skills
- Ability to translate ideas into clear requirements and specifications
- Experience documenting agile artefacts (user stories, acceptance criteria)
- Skilled in process modelling and flow diagramming
Desirable:
- Experience with BDD frameworks and writing requirement-based tests
🌍 Your Experience
- Experience working in global organisations with distributed teams
- Strong track record of gathering and defining business and technical requirements
- Ability to analyse system and user impacts collaboratively
- Familiarity with A/B testing, feature toggling, and canary releases
- Innovative mindset with a focus on continuous improvement
- Confident communicator who engages effectively across teams