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Senior Business Analyst

🗓️ Posted 2026-09-02 London Hybrid ICT

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Market rate

7,500 GBP–7,917 GBP/mo (90,000 GBP–95,000 GBP/yr)

Based on similar roles (title + domain + location).

About the Company

Linklaters Linklaters is a global law firm, providing legal services in 20 countries and through 30 offices. Linklaters is a people business. Being best in class in the eyes of our clients means that our people must be exceptional. We look not only for brilliant minds, but for people who will thrive in our environment: people who love working collaboratively and demonstrate the innovative, efficient, agile, entrepreneurial, and responsible mind-set we aim to bring to every interaction. Ours is an environment of outperformance. We achieve this not with targets and incentives, but by fostering a positive, supportive, fair, and open atmosphere. We respect and value difference but insist on inclusivity. We celebrate all aspects of diversity and challenge any form of bias. This is vital to our ability to work as one team, with a common goal. This role is based at the Linklaters London office with a hybrid working model available.

Requirements

  • ● Advanced understanding of Business Analysis tools and techniques across the full delivery lifecycle and mentors others in the team.
  • ● Proven experience of working with a wide range of business stakeholders including lawyers, Partners or heads of function.
  • ● Technical knowledge to interface confidently with delivery teams, architects, data engineers, data analysts and data scientists. With an understanding of some key data concepts such as structured and unstructured data, data visualisation, data taxonomy, data lineage, ETL, technical data requirements, data pipelines, data quality, metadata, data governance and enterprise platform data management.
  • ● Excellent written and verbal communication skills with the ability to confidently communicate with the business at all levels of seniority in their language and translate these conversations to technology teams and vice versa.
  • ● Significant experience of a wide variety of business analysis industry knowledge, methods and tools, including Azure DevOps, Mural, Visio, Tableau, Power BI, Behaviour Driven Development (BDD), Business Process Modelling Notation, Waterfall and Agile Delivery, UAT test scripts, Workshops and RFPs.
  • ● Analytical thinker with strong attention to detail and the ability to build strong relationships with team members and senior stakeholders across the business.
  • ● Comfortable and adept at dealing with ambiguity, conflicting priorities, complex and technical information with an ability to flex style as needed to communicate clearly and concisely.
  • ● Ability to operate independently with limited supervision with sound judgement as to when to involve others / escalate.
  • ● Able to assess commercial impact of product and project decisions, from a position of detailed understanding of corporate strategy and objectives.
  • ● Works well with others and collaborates across teams building lasting relationships.
  • ● Demonstrable ability to communicate effectively and work under pressure.
  • ● A good listener but also asks probing questions to fully understand what's needed.
  • ● Engage in Business Analysis to the highest standards across the full project and product lifecycle covering problem statement definition, discovery, requirements management, process mapping, business change analysis, data analysis and running UATs.
  • ● Work collaboratively with product owners, project and programme managers, delivery teams, architects, data engineers, data scientists, lawyers, Business Teams and other stakeholders to understand and define scope, objectives, benefits and BA deliverables, together with the timeframe for delivery.
  • ● Lead requirements discovery and technical backlog management in partnership with product owners, translating business needs into clear epics, features, user stories, acceptance criteria and requirements traceability in Azure DevOps.
  • ● Run large and complex workshops with diverse stakeholder groups, in person, virtually or a hybrid format.
  • ● Elicit requirements within Agile or Waterfall methodologies and translate business outcomes into clear functional and non-functional requirements.
  • ● Bring a practical understanding of data to discussions, including the ability to speak confidently with data engineers, data scientists and analytics teams.
  • ● Support any third party selection processes by providing the business requirements.
  • ● Run / support UAT by producing UAT scripts, running UAT sessions and capturing feedback.