Senior Business Analyst (AWS Transformation)

Location: Fully Remote (UK-based)

Rate: £500 - £525/day (Inside IR35)

Clearance: Active SC Clearance Required

Contract Duration: Initial 6-month contract

Role Overview
Are you an SC-cleared Senior Business Analyst looking to drive high-impact cloud transformation? We are seeking an experienced professional to support a major AWS re-architecture and technical debt reduction programme.

In this role, you will bridge the gap between business, operational, and technical teams to ensure target architectures deliver measurable business value, operational efficiency, and enhanced security.

Key Responsibilities
Capability & Process Mapping: Document current-state business capabilities, services, processes, and operating models.

Target Operating Model (TOM): Collaborate closely with technical architects to define and agree on future-state operating models.

Dependency & Risk Management: Identify cross-programme and supplier dependencies, capturing key requirements, constraints, risks, and assumptions.

Stakeholder Facilitation: Lead dynamic workshops across business, operational, security, and engineering teams to align stakeholders.

Prioritisation & Impact Analysis: Produce business cases, options assessments, and impact analyses to support migration, remediation, and simplification decisions.

Traceability & Change Readiness: Maintain end-to-end traceability between business outcomes and technical deliverables while driving operational change readiness.

Key Requirements
Essential:

Security Clearance: Must hold active SC Clearance.

Transformation Experience: Proven track record delivering business architecture or senior business analysis within large-scale technology transformations (cloud migration, infrastructure transformation, or platform modernisation).

Target Operating Models: Demonstrable experience creating and establishing TOMs alongside capability modelling and process mapping.

Stakeholder Management: Exceptional workshop facilitation and communication skills, with the ability to confidently bridge technical teams (architects, engineers) and senior business leaders.

Multi-Team Delivery: Strong analytical ability to manage and trace requirements across multiple delivery teams and external suppliers.

Desirable:

Certification or practical knowledge of BIZBOK or equivalent business architecture methodologies.

Practical familiarity with AWS cloud transformation environments.

Hands-on experience working within government or regulated sectors.

Experience using enterprise architecture repositories and modelling tools.

Expected Outcomes
Agreed current-state and future-state operating models.

Clear visibility and mapping of business and operational impacts.

Well-structured requirements directly guiding architecture and delivery decisions.

Seamless alignment between core business objectives and technical AWS delivery.