Technical Business Analyst - Fixed Term Contract

The salary for this role is £50,000. This role is advertised on a 12-month Fixed Term Contract basis.

Are you passionate about transforming intricate business challenges into straightforward, actionable requirements that drive exceptional digital services? Can you navigate through uncertainties, unite business and technology teams, and craft scalable cloud solutions utilising BPMN, data insights, and agile methodologies? Do you want to be at the core of delivery, shaping products, enhancing processes, and making a tangible impact with the systems you contribute to designing? If so, we’d love to hear from you!

At Livestock Information Ltd, our mission is to be an outstanding service provider of livestock data, empowering government, industry, and farmers to effectively manage disease and infection control, whilst enhancing productivity and innovation in agriculture. To achieve this, we need great people, who share in our values.

As a Technical Business Analyst at Livestock Information, you’ll be right at the centre of shaping digital services that matter. You’ll work across the organisation to turn complex business needs into clear, actionable requirements that power great digital products. You’ll bring people together — from stakeholders and product teams to architects and developers — to explore ideas, define outcomes, and design scalable, future-proof solutions. Using tools like BPMN, you’ll uncover opportunities to improve how we work, while supporting delivery teams to refine backlogs and build solutions that deliver real value. It’s a fast-moving, collaborative role that blends technical know-how, business insight, and strong communication — and gives you the chance to make a genuine impact through the services you help deliver.

Responsibilities

• Conducting detailed business and technical requirements analysis in collaboration with business stakeholders and technical teams.
• Eliciting, analysing, validating, and documenting business requirements to ensure a clear understanding of needs and desired outcomes.
• Translating business requirements into clear, structured, and testable functional and non-functional requirements.
• Supporting the design of scalable and sustainable IT solutions that meet business needs, working closely with architects and development teams.
• Modelling current and future business processes using BPMN or similar frameworks to identify improvement opportunities.
• Acting as a key liaison between business units and technical teams, ensuring clear, consistent communication throughout the delivery lifecycle.
• Collaborating with Product Owners and Architects to understand product roadmaps, priorities, and technical constraints.
• Supporting the development and refinement of product backlogs, including epics, features, and user stories, ensuring they are well-defined and ready for development.
• Working with development teams during delivery to clarify requirements and support correct implementation.
• Participating in agile ceremonies, including sprint planning, refinement, reviews, and retrospectives.
• Documenting business processes, user journeys, and functional designs to support solution development and change adoption.
• Supporting data-related analysis required to inform requirements and solution design, working alongside data and reporting specialists where appropriate.
• Contributing to service design and business change activities to support smooth transition into live operation.
• Identifying and documenting risks, assumptions, issues, dependencies, and decisions related to requirements and scope.
• Supporting delivery planning and progress tracking in collaboration with Project Managers or Delivery Leads.
• Providing walkthroughs or demonstrations of functionality to stakeholders to support understanding and acceptance.
• Identifying opportunities for continuous improvement in processes, tools, and ways of working.

Requirements

• Demonstrable experience and a strong understanding of business analysis principles, practices, and methodologies.
• Experience working within organisations operating under ISO27001 and ISO20000 service management standards.
• Experience working with Azure-based cloud services and familiarity with the GDS Service Manual.
• Proven ability to undertake business analysis for innovative and impactful digital or technology-enabled products.
• Experience writing SQL queries and confidently exploring data across multiple data warehouses, databases and Azure container environments.
• Experience working in agile delivery environments, using tools such as Jira or Azure DevOps to manage requirements and backlogs.
• Experience creating, maintaining, and refining product backlogs and requirements documentation.
• Strong working knowledge of business analysis tools and techniques, including BPMN for process modelling.
• Experience collaborating with development teams and solution architects to support effective product design and delivery.
• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills, with strong attention to detail.
• Clear and effective communication skills, both written and verbal, with the ability to engage a range of technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Ability to stay current with relevant IT developments, trends, and emerging technologies.

Benefits

• A fully remote and flexible working set up.
• 25 days annual leave, increasing by 1 day each year of service up to maximum of 30 days (plus Bank Holidays).
• 1 Privilege Day.
• 4 x annual salary Life Assurance.
• Market leading pension scheme through Legal & General.
• Enhanced Family Friendly Policies.
• Excellent learning, training, and career development opportunities.
• 24/7 access to our Employee Assistance Programme.
• A diverse and inclusive culture where everyone is respected and valued.

Application and Interview Process

To apply for this role, you will need to submit a CV and answer some pre-screening questions. The interview and assessment process for this role will involve a telephone screen with our Talent Team, followed by a first stage and a final stage interview. Interviews will be conducted either remotely via MS Teams or face to face.

If we need to make a reasonable adjustment so that you can complete your application, please contact us as soon as possible by emailing talent@livestockinformation.org.uk before the closing date to discuss your needs.

Please note that we may close the advert early if we receive a high volume of applications.

Values

We approach our work with TACT; we are Transparent, Accountable, Committed and we work as a Team. We are transparent together, embracing honesty and building trust. We are accountable to the industry and strive for the best possible solutions for the communities we serve. We drive change with passion, commitment and enthusiasm to deliver a great service to the livestock industry. We work kindly and cohesively which allows us to support each other in our personal and strategic goals.

For more information on our values and what it's like to work at Livestock Information, please visit our Careers Page.

At Livestock Information Ltd, we have a zero-tolerance approach to harassment, abuse, discrimination, or bullying during our recruitment process. Any such behaviour may result in a candidate being withdrawn from consideration. We are committed to upholding our company values and ensuring a safe and respectful experience for all candidates and staff.

Diversity statement

At Livestock Information, we value diversity and believe that every individual brings different strengths. We understand that not everyone may possess every single skill outlined in this job description, but if you believe you have a solid skill set that enables you to excel in this position then we really encourage you to apply.

Further information

If you feel your application has not been treated in a fair and open manner or if you are dis-satisfied with any of your interactions during the recruitment process and you wish to make a complaint, you should contact our Talent team via email: talent@livestockinformation.org.uk.