Senior Business Analyst - Maritime and Coastguard Agency - SEO
Government Digital & Data -
Full-time (Permanent)
£44,241
Published on
10 September 2026
Deadline
28 September 2026
Location
Southampton
About the job
Job summary
Can you turn complex business challenges into clear, effective solutions?
Do you enjoy working with stakeholders to shape meaningful change?
Have you led analysis that influenced decisions, services or change initiatives?
If so, we’d love to hear from you!
The Maritime and Coastguard Agency (MCA) is seeking a Senior Business Analyst to join the IT Delivery Management function, based in HQ Southampton. The function enables the organisation to deliver world class services by managing IT portfolios, programmes and projects in line with government policy, value for money and organisational objectives. The Business Analysis team plays a key role in supporting project decision-making by understanding business needs, analysing requirements and ensuring alignment with project goals and stakeholder needs.
Joining our department comes with many benefits, including:
- Employer pension contribution of 28.97% of your salary. Read more about Civil Service Pensions here
- 25 days annual leave, increasing by 1 day each year of service (up to a maximum of 30 days annual leave), plus 8 bank holidays and a privilege day for the King’s birthday
- Flexible working options where we encourage a great work-life balance.
Read more in the Benefits section below!
Find out more about what it's like working at: Maritime and Coastguard Agency - Department for Transport Careers
Job description
As a Senior Business Analyst, you will be an expert practitioner who researches business needs to define the functional and non-functional requirements of systems, processes and digital solutions. You will have a strong understanding of strategic areas and lead large or complex analysis projects.
Your responsibilities will include, but aren’t limited to:
- Managing stakeholder relationships to support successful project outcomes.
- Developing the business analysis community through mentoring and sharing best practice.
- Analysing business problems and opportunities to inform decision-making.
- Researching organisations, processes, data, technology and ways of working.
- Identifying improvement opportunities, evaluating options and defining success measures.
- Gathering and translating user and business needs into effective solutions.
- Prioritising requirements and minimum viable products using analysis-led insights.
- Ensuring products and services meet business needs, organisational goals and policy requirements.
For further information on the role, please read the role profile. Please note that the role profile is for information purposes only - whilst all elements are relevant to the role, they may not all be assessed during the recruitment process. This job advert will detail exactly what will be assessed during the recruitment process.
Person specification
Required experience:
To be successful in this role you will need to have the following experience:
- Possess a functional appreciation of business analysis methodologies.
- The use of analysis and modelling techniques and tools.
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