Senior Business Systems Analyst – Student Loans SLC / PGNI – Hybrid – Outside IR35
This role requires an individual who is comfortable managing changing priorities, driving stakeholder engagement and delivering structured analysis across large scale technical environments.
Key Responsibilities
- Work closely with business and technical stakeholders to gather, analyse and document requirements.
- Manage changing requirements and evolving project scope across delivery lifecycles.
- Identify and document non functional requirements including security and release considerations.
- Perform detailed data analysis across multiple data sources and systems.
- Design and document data flows, transformations, sequence diagrams and source to target mappings.
- Support creation of HLDs and technical documentation.
- Work closely with developers to evolve practical technical solutions.
- Support Agile SCRUM delivery across cross functional teams.
- Track actions, dependencies and stakeholder deliverables through to completion.
Mandatory Skills and Experience
- Minimum 10+ years Business Systems Analyst experience with at least 7+ years in technical environments.
- Must have in‑depth knowledge of the Student Loans Company (SLC) domain, including systems, operational processes, and capabilities.
- In‑Depth knowledge of UK Student loan system for PGNI (Postgraduate Loan Northern Ireland), PG (Postgraduate Loan), UG (Undergraduate Loan) for part‑time and full‑time.
- Strong familiarity with the Student Loan System, including multi‑product and multi‑domicile configurations and interconnectivity dependency to other GOV such as HMPO DVA, HMRC, etc. and its underlying technology stack.
- Strong experience managing changing requirements and scope.
- Strong stakeholder engagement and communication capability.
- Experience identifying non functional requirements.
- Strong hands‑on experience in data analysis using Oracle, SQL, MongoDB, DynamoDB, Excel, JSON and CSV.
- Experience designing data flows and transformations.
- Experience producing sequence diagrams and source to target mappings.
- Experience within Agile SCRUM delivery environments.
- Comfortable operating in fast‑paced delivery environments with changing priorities.
- Strong collaboration across Product Owners, Developers and Testers.
- Strong analytical, communication and leadership capability.
- Significant onsite client‑facing experience.
Good to Have Skills
- Experience using Visio, Draw.IO, JIRA and Confluence.
- Knowledge of APIs, system integrations, SQL, PL/SQL, MuleSoft and cloud migration projects.
- Student Loans Company domain knowledge.
- Experience with UK student loan systems and related government integrations including HMRC, HMPO and DVA.
