Senior IT Business Analyst

Senior IT Business Analyst

12 Months Fixed-Term Contract

Starting Salary: c £65,000 depending on skills and experience

Location: Bristol or York with 50% office attendance

This is a great job for someone who is an experienced Business Analyst with a strong technology and data background who enjoys solving complex data challenges and working across business and technical teams.

This role would suit someone with experience in data mapping, lineage, transformation and requirements analysis, particularly within large-scale change programmes. You’ll be confident engaging stakeholders across Finance, Data, Actuarial and Technology and translating complex business needs into clear, actionable technical requirements. You’ll also be interested in how AI and agentic capabilities can change the way organisations discover, document and control complex data journeys, while ensuring the outputs remain transparent, traceable and appropriately validated.

A bit about the job:

As a Senior IT Business Analyst within the Data Workstream, you will play a key role in analysing and defining the critical data journeys supporting Finance and Actuarial processes.

Working closely with Finance, Actuarial, Data, Architecture and Technology teams, you will identify data requirements, document lineage and transformations, define business and technical rules, and help establish trusted, controlled and traceable data flows.

You’ll also help shape the programme’s agentic data approach, defining requirements and use cases for AI-enabled capabilities that can accelerate activities such as data discovery, lineage and mapping, metadata capture, documentation and impact analysis. You’ll help ensure outputs generated through these capabilities can be validated by SMEs, traced to source and incorporated into the wider control environment.

Skills and experience we’re looking for:

• Strong experience gathering and documenting IT and data requirements, including functional and non-functional requirements.
• Proven ability to translate Finance and Actuarial business needs into clear technical requirements and deliverables.
• Expertise in data mapping, lineage, source-to-target transformations and data definitions across complex data landscapes.
• Experience working closely with architects, engineers and developers to maintain requirements traceability through design, build and testing.
• Skilled in data quality analysis, business validation, test scenario development and acceptance criteria.
• Experience defining requirements or use cases for AI, agentic or automation-enabled data capabilities would be highly desirable, particularly where outputs require human validation, traceability and controls.

What you’ll get for this role:

Our purpose - with you today, for a better tomorrow – is a promise we make to our colleagues too.  And one of the ways we live up to that promise is by investing in you.  We have so much to offer when it comes to being an Aviva colleague.

• Starting salary c. £65,000 (depending on location, skills, experience, and qualifications)

• Bonus opportunity - 10% of annual salary Actual amount depends on your performance and Aviva’s.

• Generous pension scheme - Aviva will contribute up to 14%, depending on what you put in.

• 29 days holiday plus bank holidays, and you can choose to buy or sell up to 5 days

• Make your money go further - Up to 40% discount on Aviva products, and other retailer discounts

• Up to £1,200 of free Aviva shares per year through our Matching Share Plan and share in the success of Aviva with our Save As You Earn scheme

• Brilliantly supportive policies including parental and carer’s leave

• Flexible benefits to suit you, including sustainability options such as cycle to work

• Make a difference, be part of our Aviva Communities and use your 3 paid volunteering days to help others

• We take your wellbeing seriously with lots of support and tools

Aviva is for everyone:

We’re inclusive and welcome everyone – we want applications from all backgrounds and experiences. Excited but not sure you tick every box? Even if you don’t, we would still encourage you to apply. We also consider all forms of flexible working, including part time and job shares.

We flex locations, hours and working patterns to suit our customers, business, and you. Most of our people are smart working – spending around 50% of their time in our offices every week - combining the benefits of flexibility, with time together with colleagues.

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We’d love it if you could submit your application online. If you require an alternative method of applying, please give Amber Britton a call on 07775546100  or send an email to amber.britton@aviva.com