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Lead Business Analyst / Project Manager

United Kingdom, Northampton · Job Posted March 22, 2026
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Join us at Barclays as a Lead Business Analyst / Project Manager, where you'll shape and drive high-impact programmes including our GenAI Strategic Tool, Appian Centre of Excellence, and WatsonX governance. In this role, you'll bridge business strategy and technology delivery—translating complex requirements into actionable solutions that accelerate AI innovation, automation, and regulatory compliance across the organisation.

Job Responsibility

  • Management of change projects within the organisation, ensuring that they are delivered on time, within scope, budget, and to the required quality standards
  • Development and management of project plans that outline the scope, objectives, timelines, and resource requirements for change projects
  • Communication with stakeholders, including senior management, project teams, and external partners, to ensure that they are informed about project progress and that their needs and expectations are being met
  • Management of project teams, ensuring that they are properly resourced and that they have the necessary skills and expertise to deliver on project objectives
  • Management of project budgets, ensuring that projects are delivered within the agreed budget
  • Creation of reports on project progress to ensure that proposed solutions are delivered on time and within budget
  • Management of project risks, ensuring that risk, assumptions, issues and dependencies are identified, assessed, and mitigated as necessary
  • Facilitation of change management activities, including training and communication, to ensure that change projects are successfully implemented and embedded in the organisation

Requirements

  • Proven experience in business analysis and requirements engineering on regulatory and transformation change projects, with the ability to elicit, document, and validate complex business and technical requirements
  • Strong stakeholder management and executive-level communication skills, including the ability to facilitate workshops, present options appraisals, and articulate impact assessments to senior leadership
  • Solid understanding of the SDLC lifecycle and Agile methodologies, with hands-on experience writing user stories, defining acceptance criteria, and supporting sprint planning and backlog prioritisation

Nice to have

  • Experience performing business analysis across a portfolio of projects, preferably in technology, AI/ML, or process automation domains
  • Prior exposure to Appian or similar workflow automation platforms, including process mapping, data modelling, and solution design
  • Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to conduct gap analyses, map current- and future-state processes, and define measurable success criteria
  • Ability to operate effectively in a matrix structure, influencing without direct authority and acting as a trusted advisor between business, technology, and compliance teams

What we offer

  • Focus on wellbeing
  • Unique initiatives to enhance your wellbeing like our colleague allotment
  • Big opportunities
  • The workplace of the future
  • Hybrid working
  • Structured approach to hybrid working

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