Data Business Analyst at Cloud Decisions, London, to £450 per day

Business Analyst - Data Platform Transformation

Contract: 11 days, delivered on a non-consecutive basis
Rate: Up to £450 per day
IR35: Outside IR35
Location: London/Hybrid

We're supporting one of the UK's most respected Azure specialist MSPs as they shape a strategic data platform transformation programme.

They need an experienced Business Analyst who can get up to speed quickly, lead focused discovery sessions and bring structure to a complex environment involving Legacy systems, undocumented processes and significant volumes of data.

You'll bridge the gap between operational stakeholders and technical delivery teams-turning ambiguous requirements into clear process maps, data requirements and actionable recommendations that will directly influence the future platform design.

What You'll Be Doing

• Leading discovery workshops with operational, forecasting, product, IT and data stakeholders.
• Capturing current-state processes, systems, workflows and data flows.
• Identifying bottlenecks, manual processes, risks and improvement opportunities.
• Developing future-state processes and operating-model recommendations.
• Gathering and documenting functional, non-functional and business requirements.
• Producing process maps, BPMN diagrams, data-flow diagrams, user stories and requirements backlogs.
• Analysing data ownership, quality, stewardship, lineage, metadata and governance requirements.
• Supporting the creation of data dictionaries, business glossaries, KPI definitions and data-quality rules.
• Working with architects and data engineers to validate requirements and define acceptance criteria.
• Facilitating playback sessions and securing stakeholder agreement on key deliverables.
• Supporting UAT, business readiness and solution validation where required.

Key Deliverables

Your outputs are likely to include:

• Discovery and gap-analysis reports.
• Current and future-state process documentation.
• Business requirements and user stories.
• Business process and data-flow diagrams.
• Data lineage and governance documentation.
• Data dictionaries and business glossaries.
• Stakeholder analysis and acceptance criteria.
• Business-readiness recommendations.

What We're Looking For

• At least five years' Business Analysis experience.
• Previous experience supporting data, analytics or platform-transformation programmes.
• Strong workshop facilitation and stakeholder-management skills.
• Experience documenting complex business processes and data flows.
• A solid understanding of data governance, lineage, quality and ownership.
• The ability to translate between business stakeholders, architects and engineering teams.
• Experience producing structured, delivery-ready documentation.
• Confidence operating in ambiguous environments with Legacy systems and limited existing documentation.
• Availability to complete an 11-day, non-consecutive engagement.

Desirable Experience

Exposure to any of the following would be beneficial:

• Microsoft Fabric.
• Azure Data Platform.
• Microsoft Purview.
• Data warehousing.
• Power BI.
• Data migration or modernisation.
• Data life cycle and governance frameworks.
• Telecommunications, research or data-product environments.
• Azure DevOps, Jira, Confluence, Visio, Lucidchart or Miro.

This would suit a senior Business Analyst who enjoys complex discovery work, knows how to uncover hidden dependencies and can quickly turn stakeholder knowledge into practical deliverables.

Apply now or contact Cloud Decisions for a confidential conversation.