Senior Business Analyst
Job summary
We are looking for a Senior Business Analyst to join HM Land Registry (HMLR), playing a key role in shaping our digital transformation and delivering high-quality, user-centred services. This is an opportunity to act as a trusted advisor to stakeholders and product teams, using your expertise to ensure solutions align with business strategy, service vision, and enterprise architecture.
You will be accountable for the quality and management of requirements across a range of projects, from large-scale change initiatives to smaller enhancements. Alongside this, you will support the development of our Business Analysis function by mentoring others and promoting best practice.
Job description
As a Senior Business Analyst, you will work closely with Product Owners, delivery teams, and senior stakeholders across HM Land Registry and beyond. You’ll bring confidence, credibility and strong analytical capability to influence decisions, challenge thinking constructively, and ensure that outcomes deliver real business value.
You will take an independent and unbiased approach to analysis—identifying opportunities, shaping solutions, and ensuring requirements are clearly defined, agreed and fit for purpose. You’ll also contribute to building a strong, collaborative Business Analysis community, supporting colleagues to grow and succeed.
We welcome applications from individuals of all backgrounds and experiences. At HMLR, we are committed to creating an inclusive environment where everyone feels valued, supported, and able to achieve their potential.
Main Duties
You will be responsible for:
- Analysing change proposals to define clear problem or opportunity statements, incorporating input from a wide range of stakeholders
- Identifying and analysing stakeholders, ensuring diverse perspectives are gathered and appropriately represented
- Eliciting, documenting and managing user and business requirements, producing high-quality deliverables
- Planning and managing your workload effectively, using a structured and analytical approach to problem-solving
- Analysing and evaluating research outputs to inform decision-making
- Supporting Product Owners and stakeholders in backlog creation and refinement, ensuring features, epics and user stories are well-defined and ready for delivery
- Identifying opportunities to improve business processes by analysing ‘as is’ and ‘to be’ states
- Facilitating workshops and agile ceremonies to support requirements elicitation and development
- Ensuring requirements are agreed, documented, traceable and managed across projects and programmes
- Identifying potential changes to scope and escalating where appropriate
- Communicating effectively across teams to share insights, best practice and expertise in business analysis and process design
- Contributing to impact assessments and wider change analysis activities
- Presenting and playing back analysis and product developments to wider stakeholder groups
- Supporting and mentoring Business Analysts, contributing to the continuous improvement of the BA function
Key Role Benefits
- Opportunity to play a leading role in driving HM Land Registry’s digital transformation
- Work on high-profile programmes that directly impact public services
- Influence senior stakeholders and shape strategic decision-making
- Develop your leadership capability through mentoring and supporting others
- Be part of a collaborative, inclusive and supportive professional community
- Use your expertise to deliver meaningful, user-centred improvements at scale
Person specification
To be successful in this position, you will need to demonstrate the below essential criteria throughout the selection process. Please note that the desirable criteria will only be assessed in the event of needing a tiebreaker.
Essential Technical Skills and Qualifications:
- Selection and use of appropriate methods and tooling to support analysis.
- Selection and utilisation of Modelling techniques (business/process/data)
Desirable Technical Skills and Qualifications:
- Professional qualification in Business Analysis (e.g. BCS Diploma in Business Analysis or Advanced Diploma in Business Analysis).
Essential Experience:
- Experience of tools and techniques used to elicit and document user needs and requirements, and support analysis.
- Experience of contributing to delivery in an interactive or agile environment.
- Experience of analysing system capabilities and limitations and developing requirements for improvements or software changes.
- Excellent assimilation, analysis and problem-solving skills.
- Excellent communication, facilitation and negotiation skills including the ability to challenge evidence and proposals constructively.
- Experience of leading and developing others.
- Experience of contributing to the improvement of the Business Analysis Function.
Please see the attached job description for further information.
Where an individual taking up the responsibility will be based in Swansea Office, the ability to speak Welsh is desirable.
Behaviours
We'll assess you against these behaviours during the selection process:
- Seeing the Big Picture
- Leadership
- Working Together
- Delivering at Pace
Benefits
Alongside your salary of £45,514, HM Land Registry contributes £13,185 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides.#WeAreHMLR
At HM Land Registry our vision is a world leading property market as part of a thriving economy and a sustainable future. We are unique in terms of the economic and social impacts of our work, our ability to make a positive difference to the lives of our customers, our sense of mission, and our great people. They are the foundation of all we have achieved and all we aspire to in the future. We want our people to feel proud to work for HM Land Registry and able to fulfil their full potential.
We have a strong and positive culture, a commitment to inclusivity, an emphasis on continuous learning and development, and flexible ways of working. We offer competitive pay and annual leave, attractive pension options and a wide range of other benefits.
- We have integrity– we value honesty, trust and doing the right thing in the right way.
- We drive innovation– we are forward-thinking, embrace change and are continually improving our processes.
- We are professional– we value and grow our knowledge and professional expertise.
- We give assurance– we guarantee our services and provide confidence to the property market.
The HMLR Way – Our Shared Commitment
What you can expect from HMLR:
- Inclusive & Empowering: A positive, healthy environment where everyone feels valued and empowered to contribute
- High Performance: Access to tools, resources, and development opportunities within a supportive culture
- Value & Recognition: We value team and individual improvement, learning from setbacks as much as celebrating success
- Clarity & Transparency: Clear communication of our vision and priorities, so our direction and decisions are evident
You can find more information on our rewards package on our website.
Things you need to know
Artificial intelligence
Artificial intelligence can be a useful tool to support your application, however, all examples and statements provided must be truthful, factually accurate and taken directly from your own experience. Where plagiarism has been identified (presenting the ideas and experiences of others, or generated by artificial intelligence, as your own) applications may be withdrawn and internal candidates may be subject to disciplinary action. Please see our candidate guidance (opens in a new window) for more information on appropriate and inappropriate use.Selection process details
This vacancy is using Success Profiles (opens in a new window), and will assess your Behaviours and Experience.Upon applying you will be required to complete a Verbal Reasoning test before you can proceed with the rest of your application.
Then to apply for this vacancy, you will need to complete the short online application form and attach an anonymous CV that will demonstrate how you meet the Essential Experience set out in the person specification and/or job description.
You will also be asked to complete a Personal Statement section (in no more than 750 words) and this should be used to outline your skills and experience for the role and detail how you meet the essential experience criteria listed below:
- Experience of tools and techniques used to elicit and document user needs and requirements, and support analysis.
- Experience of contributing to delivery in an interactive or agile environment.
- Experience of leading and developing others.
In the event of high application numbers we may use the below as the lead criteria during the pre-sift/sift stages.
- Experience of tools and techniques used to elicit and document user needs and requirements, and support analysis.
If successful at the shortlisting stage, you will be invited to complete a telephone interview with one of our external providers of which more information will be shared after the sift stage has been completed.
If successful at the telephone interview stage, you will be invited to attend a blended interview, which we anticipate will either be held on week commencing 29 June 2026 or 6 July 2026.
Please review your application form before clicking ‘submit’ – once you have submitted, you will not be able to amend your application. Ensure your application form is received by the closing date for receipt of applications – this is 11:55pm on the advertised date.
The interview will assess the experience and behaviours listed in the attached job description.
Candidates may refer to notes within their interview, but they should be used as a prompt only.
HMLR is accredited to the Disability Confidence Scheme, which denotes organisations which have a positive attitude towards disabled people. Disabled applicants who meet the minimum essential criteria at the shortlisting stage are guaranteed an invitation to interview.
If any candidate requires the panel to consider a reasonable adjustment or there is anything else they would like the panel to take into consideration they are asked to notify us of this at application stage where possible or during the process as soon as it becomes a requirement.
The Civil Service values honesty and integrity and expects all candidates to share these values. Please ensure all examples provided throughout the recruitment process are representative of your own experience. Any instances of plagiarism or other forms of cheating (including the improper use of artificial intelligence) will be investigated and, if proven, the application will be withdrawn.
Please note that we will only offer sponsorship for a skilled worker visa where a role is in a certain business critical category. This role does not meet that category, and we will not sponsor a skilled worker visa. You must ensure you have the appropriate right to work in the UK before applying.
HMLR expect everyone to spend at least 60% of their working time in the office.
You can find more information on how we use your personal data on our website
Feedback will only be provided if you attend an interview or assessment.
Security
Successful candidates must undergo a criminal record check.People working with government assets must complete baseline personnel security standard (opens in new window) checks.Nationality requirements
This job is broadly open to the following groups:
- UK nationals
- nationals of the Republic of Ireland
- nationals of Commonwealth countries who have the right to work in the UK
- nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities with settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS) (opens in a new window)
- nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities who have made a valid application for settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS)
- individuals with limited leave to remain or indefinite leave to remain who were eligible to apply for EUSS on or before 31 December 2020
- Turkish nationals, and certain family members of Turkish nationals, who have accrued the right to work in the Civil Service
Working for the Civil Service
The Civil Service Code (opens in a new window) sets out the standards of behaviour expected of civil servants.We recruit by merit on the basis of fair and open competition, as outlined in the Civil Service Commission's recruitment principles (opens in a new window).The Civil Service embraces diversity and promotes equal opportunities. As such, we run a Disability Confident Scheme (DCS) for candidates with disabilities who meet the minimum selection criteria.The Civil Service also offers a Redeployment Interview Scheme to civil servants who are at risk of redundancy, and who meet the minimum requirements for the advertised vacancy.
Diversity and Inclusion
The Civil Service is committed to attract, retain and invest in talent wherever it is found. To learn more please see theCivil Service People Plan (opens in a new window) and the Civil Service Diversity and Inclusion Strategy (opens in a new window).Apply and further information
This vacancy is part of the Great Place to Work for Veterans (opens in a new window) initiative.The Civil Service welcomes applications from people who have recently left prison or have an unspent conviction. Read more about prison leaver recruitment (opens in new window).Once this job has closed, the job advert will no longer be available. You may want to save a copy for your records.Contact point for applicants
Job contact :
- Name : Marcia Burgess
- Email : marcia.burgess@landregistry.gov.uk
Recruitment team
Further information
If you feel your application has not been treated in accordance to the Recruitment Principles and you wish to make a complaint, please email hrresourcingteam2@landregistry.gov.uk in the first instance. If you are not satisfied with the response you receive from HM Land Registry then you may take your complaint to the Civil Service Commission: http://civilservicecommission.independent.gov.uk/making-complaint/Attachments
Job Description Opens in new window (pdf, 203kB)Salary range
- £45,514 - £50,682 per year