Lead Business Analyst - Large Scale Transformation

Lead Business Analyst

£600-£650pd Inside IR35

Initial 3-6 months

London, hybrid 2-3 days on site

emagine is a high-end professional services consultancy and solutions firm specialising in providing business and technology services to the financial services sector. We power progress, solve challenges, and deliver real results through tailored high-end consulting services and solutions.

We have created a culture of openness and integrity by building genuine and strong relationships and partnerships, enabling us to be uncompromising in our dedication to delivering the optimal service for our clients. Our commitment is not just towards our clients — we aim to foster a positive and equitable working environment with our consultants and colleagues, which stems from our core values: Confident, Dedicated, Responsible, Genuine.

We are seeking an experienced Lead Business Analyst to play a pivotal role in a large-scale legacy system transformation programme within a complex, regulated environment. This role will lead requirements definition, shape delivery standards, and support the successful transition from legacy platforms to modern solutions.

The ideal candidate will bring strong leadership experience across end-to-end transformation initiatives, combined with deep expertise in Agile delivery and stakeholder engagement.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead requirements definition and management across a large-scale transformation programme.

• Drive clarity and alignment across business and technology teams.

• Support backlog creation, refinement, and sprint readiness within an Agile delivery framework.

• Establish and maintain core project artefacts, documentation standards, and best practices.

• Partner closely with product owners to enhance delivery capability and maturity.

• Contribute to programme structure, governance, and delivery frameworks.

• Ensure continuity and stability across transformation phases.

Key Skills & Experience

• Proven experience working on large, complex legacy transformation programmes.

• Strong background in Agile delivery methodologies and frameworks.

• Demonstrated ability to lead requirements across end-to-end delivery lifecycles.

• Excellent stakeholder engagement, communication, and influencing skills.

• Ability to operate effectively in evolving or less mature delivery environments.

• Strong analytical thinking and problem-solving capabilities.

• Experience within insurance, financial services, or similar regulated industries.

• Familiarity with policy administration or insurance-related systems.

• Understanding of digital transformation strategies and modernisation approaches.

Our People

The ideal consultants will share our values and be aligned with our ways of working. As your career progresses, you can expect to work across all areas of the project lifecycle, from strategy to implementation. This will provide you with a broad base of experience from which to build an outstanding career.

The ideal consultants will share our values and be aligned with our ways of working and as your career progresses, you can expect to work across all areas of the project lifecycle.

We pride ourselves on;

• Providing our people with a supportive culture, rooted in our values and driven by our purpose.

• Promoting a culture of inclusion, collaboration, well-being, and learning and development.

• Providing increased agility and flexibility within our hybrid working model

• Investing in employees’ growth through ongoing training and development

• Autonomy to take ownership of projects, making decisions and demonstrating individual expertise

• Providing an transparent performance and career management experience.

Our consultants are integral to delivering successful consulting engagements, addressing our clients’ most pressing business challenges, and build lasting value in disciplines such as:

• Solve sophisticated, ambiguous business, change and technology problems, bringing structure and meticulous analysis and planning, acting, and taking decisions with little strategic direction

• Build, develop and sustain trusted senior client relationships in the C-suite by remaining highly attuned to client needs

• Drive, enable and support the business, partnering with our leaders, clients, and consultants across our practices to take the best of emagine to our clients through opportunity identification/qualification, solution development/presentation

Interested?

At emagine, we are committed to building an international and diverse team by embracing our different backgrounds.

If you are up to the challenge and would like to find out more, get in touch with us immediately, our internal recruitment team is always keen to hear from dynamic individuals that are looking to further their career and explore their full potential. 

“emagine is an equal opportunity employer, and employment practices are based strictly on merit. It is the policy of the Company to give equal opportunity in employment regardless of sex, sexual orientation, marital status, race, age, disability, gender reassignment, pregnancy and maternity, religion or ethnic origin