Business Analyst

Starting from £45,500, salary depending on skills and experience

37 hours a week, Permanent
Lincoln or Huntingdon office / Hybrid working

Love Every Drop.

At Anglian Water, we're transforming the way we deliver services for our customers, communities and the environment. To support this, we're looking for an experienced Business Analyst to join our Performance team.

We’re looking for a structured, detail-oriented Business Analyst with proven experience delivering business analysis within Waterfall project environments, who can bring clarity, challenge and insight to complex pieces of work.

You’ll be confident engaging with stakeholders, understanding business problems, analysing processes, shaping requirements, and supporting delivery teams to design and validate solutions that meet real business needs.

What you'll be doing

As a Business Analyst, you'll support the successful delivery of projects through the capture, analysis and management of business and technical requirements. Acting as the bridge between stakeholders and delivery teams, you'll ensure solutions are aligned to business needs and provide clear direction throughout delivery.

Your responsibilities will include:

• Leading requirements elicitation and analysis activities, workshops and stakeholder engagement sessions.

• Producing high-quality business analysis artefacts and detailed upfront requirements documentation.

• Creating and maintaining requirements traceability throughout the project lifecycle.

• Identifying opportunities to improve processes and deliver better business outcomes.

• Developing AS-IS and TO-BE process maps using BPMN 2.0 standards.

• Defining and validating both functional and non-functional requirements, including security, performance, usability and reporting requirements.

• Supporting solution design reviews to ensure requirements are fully understood and met.

• Supporting testing, business validation and user acceptance testing activities.

• Managing requirements throughout the project lifecycle in a controlled and structured manner.

• Working collaboratively with stakeholders, architects, project managers, technical teams and business subject matter experts.

Essential experience

• Proven Business Analyst experience within Waterfall project environments, including producing detailed upfront requirements documentation and maintaining requirements traceability. Agile experience is welcome, but candidates must also have demonstrable Waterfall delivery experience.

• Significant experience eliciting, analysing, validating, and documenting detailed upfront requirements, supported by high-quality business analysis artefacts.

• Experience managing requirements throughout the full project lifecycle, including maintaining traceability and supporting controlled change.

• Experience validating solution designs against agreed business and functional requirements.

• Ability to work independently, manage their own workload, and bring structure and clarity to ambiguous or complex pieces of work.

• Strong process mapping experience, specifically using BPMN 2.0.

• Experience facilitating requirements workshops and stakeholder engagement sessions.

• Confidence working with business stakeholders and technical/delivery teams to ensure requirements are understood, agreed, and delivered.

• Experience defining and validating non-functional requirements, such as security, performance, usability, and reporting.

• Experience supporting testing and business validation activities to ensure solutions meet agreed requirements.

Desirable

• BCS Business Analysis qualification.

• Experience working within a regulated environment where governance, assurance and documentation standards are critical.

• Experience supporting large-scale business transformation initiatives.

• Experience working within utility, infrastructure or similarly regulated sectors.

What's in it for you?

At Anglian Water, you'll be part of a purpose-driven organisation that's committed to innovation, sustainability and delivering exceptional service to our customers.

We offer:

• 26 days annual leave plus bank holidays (increasing with length of service)

• Flexible working options

• Private healthcare

• Competitive pension scheme. Anglian Water double-matches contributions up to 7%

• Life assurance at eight times your salary

• Annual bonus scheme

• Personal accident cover

• Virtual GP service

Selection Process

As part of the recruitment process, shortlisted candidates will be asked to complete a practical business analysis assessment designed to showcase their approach to requirements gathering, analysis and problem-solving.

When applying, please give clear examples of your experience producing detailed requirements and maintaining traceability within Waterfall or similarly structured project delivery environments

Why apply?

This is a fantastic opportunity to work on projects that make a real difference across Anglian Water. You'll help shape solutions from the outset, influence key business decisions and ensure successful delivery through robust requirements management and stakeholder collaboration.

If you're a highly organised Business Analyst who thrives on bringing structure, clarity and insight to complex challenges, we'd love to hear from you.

Closing date: 15/11/2026

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About Us

We are committed to reflect the diversity of the communities we serve in both our workforce and our supply chain partners to help us to understand and meet the needs of our customers. We are passionate and dedicated to the learning and development of our people, making sure they have the right skills and knowledge to be successful and to help achieve their potential.

We want to give everyone equal access to our recruitment process. If you have a disability or long-term condition, including neurodiversity and mental health conditions, we’ll support you throughout your application, and make any adjustments to make sure your disability or long-term condition is not a barrier to recruitment. If you need any support, please get reach out to our team resourcing@anglianwater.co.uk’

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