Job Vacancy Senior Business Analyst (Migration & Borders Digital) - Home Office - SEO

Job summary

Migration and Borders Digital is part of the Home Office Digital Directorate in the Home Office. M&B Digital is a Portfolio of around 3,500 dedicated professionals made up of civil servants and suppliers working together to develop some of the most challenging and transformative technology products, supporting critical programmes within the Migration and Borders system.

Working closely with colleagues in the Migration and Borders mission, we also support a number of the Home Office's capabilities such as Customer Services, Immigration Enforcement and Border Force. We jointly design services, build, run and sustain them to enable some of the government’s most important strategic outcomes, notably the legitimate movement of people and goods to support economic prosperity.

Our environment is fast-paced and often complex, and leadership roles combine intellectual challenge with an opportunity to work with highly innovative teams across the department, wider government, and industry. In supporting a great breadth of services, a diverse range of stakeholders, cutting edge solutions and an exciting future agenda you will have the opportunity to positively influence issues that directly affect millions of people’s lives.

Where business needs allow, some roles may be suitable for a combination of office and home-based working. Where this is the case, employees will be expected to spend a minimum of 60% of their working time in the office. Applicants can raise any queries to the email address at the bottom of the advert.  

Watch this short video to hear from members of Home Office Digital talking about the projects they work on and their experience of working here: 

Recruitment Event

We are hosting a Business Analysis online recruitment event on Tuesday 21st April 2026 from 13:00 to 13:30, where you can find out more about our roles, working for Home Office Digital and how to apply. Register your interest here: .

Job description

As a Senior Business Analyst, you’ll lead small to medium projects and contribute to larger programmes by owning key requirements.

You’ll align outcomes with service vision and business strategy, supporting product iteration and optimisation.

You’ll build strong stakeholder relationships, challenge constructively, and act as a critical voice to ensure fit-for-purpose solutions.

Working independently or collaboratively, you’ll demonstrate a solid understanding of your domain.

You’ll also help shape future business models and contribute to business architecture strategy.

As an active member of the Business Analysis community, you’ll share best practices and mentor others to support professional growth and capability development.

Person specification

Main Responsibilities

• Investigating operational and business needs and problems and assisting in the recommendation of service improvement and business solutions.

• Understanding and defining the problem to be solved and ensuring strategic decision-making supports business outcomes as well as user needs.

• Eliciting, analysing and validating business requirements and user needs, as well as business strategy problems, in the most appropriate and effective manner and format.

• Collaborating with other professions within scope of the delivery to embed the Business Analysis role and value in the context of a project and multidisciplinary team.

• Planning and leading large areas of Business Analysis delivery, owning the challenge and driving through to conclusions.

• Creating acceptance criteria (often utilising the concept of Behavioural Driven Development) to allow your new service to be properly tested.

• Modelling processes/procedures using established techniques with understanding of their purpose and importance.

• Production of periodic performance measures to inform stakeholders and drive discussion around the required service.