Business Analyst - Business Continuity
At a Glance
- Business Analyst role with a strong Business Continuity focus, leading BIAs, process mapping and continuity planning across a major regulated organisation
- £50,000 - £65,000 per annum- perm role.
- Belfast, hybrid - 3 days onsite, 2 days offsite per week
- Role starting from the 19 October 2026
- A rare chance to own a Business Continuity framework end to end, not just contribute to one
About the Company
Our client is a specialist technology and engineering consultancy that partners with major organisations across critical infrastructure, utilities and regulated sectors to deliver large-scale transformation and resilience programmes. They are currently resourcing a high-profile engagement with a significant Northern Ireland operator, giving the successful candidate exposure to a complex, safety-critical environment and genuine influence over how the organisation plans for and responds to disruption.
The Role
This is a Business Analyst role with a clear and meaningful mandate: lead the design, facilitation and delivery of a comprehensive Business Continuity framework across all directorates of a large, regulated operational organisation. You will work directly with senior business leaders and subject matter experts to build Business Impact Assessments, map critical processes, and translate that analysis into practical, well-governed Business Continuity Plans. You will also support the broader business analysis function, helping shape requirements for new technology solutions and change initiatives. This suits someone who is equally comfortable running a workshop with senior stakeholders and writing the plan that follows it.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead the design, facilitation and delivery of a Business Continuity framework across all directorates
- Facilitate workshops with senior leaders, process owners and subject matter experts to gather and validate continuity requirements
- Undertake Business Impact Assessments to identify critical services, activities, operational impacts and recovery priorities
- Map critical business processes and their dependencies, including people, technology, facilities, suppliers and information
- Define and validate recovery time objectives, recovery point objectives and minimum service levels
- Identify resilience gaps, single points of failure and key risks, and recommend opportunities to strengthen existing arrangements
- Translate workshop and analysis outputs into clear Business Continuity Plans, procedures, process maps and improvement actions
- Align continuity requirements with existing incident response, crisis management and service recovery arrangements
- Define plan ownership, roles, responsibilities, escalation routes and governance arrangements
- Support scenario-based exercises, capture lessons learned and track improvement actions through to completion
- Support the translation of wider business requirements into system requirements for new technology solutions
What You'll Need
Essential:
- 5+ years of IT business analysis or business transformation/change experience
- Proven experience liaising with business end users across a large organisation
- Experience supporting the translation of business requirements into system requirements
- Experience supporting a large IT implementation or transformation programme
- Experience delivering IT implementations using both Agile and Waterfall methodologies
- Experience supporting and developing a broad range of business applications
- Broad technical understanding of Agile methodologies, SDLC, IT infrastructure, databases, cloud computing, cybersecurity, data protection and IT governance
Desirable / Nice to Have:
- Previous experience in business continuity, operational resilience, critical infrastructure, utilities or another regulated operational environment
- Working knowledge of ISO 22301
Why Apply?
- £50,000 - £65,000 per annum
- A permanent role with a high-impact initial engagement running from 19 October 2026, strong likelihood of extension
- Hybrid working - 3 days onsite, 2 days offsite per week
- Own a Business Continuity framework end to end, from workshops through to governance, rather than a narrow slice of it
- Direct exposure to senior leaders across a large, regulated operational organisation
- Work on a genuinely high-profile engagement within a specialist consultancy that invests in its people
- Broaden your BA skill set into resilience and continuity, a growing and increasingly valued specialism
Next Steps
To apply or find out more in confidence, contact Phil Gamble at or connect on LinkedIn. Please note that applications will need a CV aligned to this role, along with two 2-page examples of similar projects delivered in the last 3 years, in a format we will share with you.