Senior Technical Business Analyst - 12 month FTC

We’re building thriving communities as one of the UK’s largest housing groups and a leading developer of affordable housing.

We believe everyone is entitled to a good home they can afford, in a place they are proud to live. More than 100,000 people live in our homes.

If you want to experience work that’s truly rewarding, join us. Because when we achieve together, customers and communities thrive.

Work for Orbit. Believe in people.

The role

We are seeking an experienced Senior Technical Business Analyst to join us for a 12 month fixed-term period, working on key projects within our Everyday Excellence programme.

This role provides advanced analytical capability across business requirements, data flows, and BI delivery. You will lead complex analysis of reporting logic, KPIs, business rules, data lineage, and future-state reporting designs, ensuring readiness for Data Engineering and BI development.

The successful candidate will be proactive, analytical, and rigorous in their approach, with strong relationship building skills, across business and technical team. The Senior will be comfortable handling complexity and ambiguity whilst communicating clearly with ability to articulate technical logic.

This role is part of Technology & Information where you'll help us give colleagues the infrastructure, support and insight they need to be brilliant. This is an agile working role, based out of our Coventry office 2-4 times per month.

What you'll achieve

• Gather, clarify, and translate complex reporting and analytical requirements across multiple directorates
• Lead the full requirements lifecycle including detailed logic definition, documentation, prioritisation, traceability, and change control
• Analyse AS-IS reporting assets, KPIs, business rules, lineage, and data-quality patterns.
• Produce TO-BE reporting models including personas, service designs, and conceptual data mappings
• Define KPI formulas, DAX-ready logic, acceptance rules, and reporting semantics
• Translate business rules into BI-ready technical specifications for Power BI Developers
• Provide data transformation and mapping clarity in collaboration with Data Engineering
• Facilitate technical workshops involving complex logic, reconciliation, and dependencies
• Support solution assessment, feasibility analysis, and business-case contribution
• Ensure alignment with governance, data quality, security controls, and design assurance
• Support UAT planning, KPI validation, and reconciliation activities
• Mentor BAs and contribute to analytical standards across the workstream

What you'll bring

Essential skills

• BA experience in BI, data, analytics, or reporting programmes
• Deep understanding of data structures, semantic models, KPIs, business rules, and BI logic
• Strong requirements lifecycle expertise including traceability and controlled change
• Skilled in solution assessment and feasibility analysis
• Excellent stakeholder engagement, facilitation, and communication skills
• Strong analytical capability including data investigation and reporting logic validation
• Proficiency with Azure DevOps or similar tools
• Strong documentation and technical specification writing capability

Why Orbit?

Choosing us means being rewarded in every sense.

Here’s what you can expect to enjoy with us.

A rewarding experience that works for you

We strive to create an inclusive experience with benefits and wellbeing programmes designed to help you, and your loved ones, to thrive. For a better work life balance, we offer flexible working opportunities for many roles.

A place to progress

From training programmes to professional qualifications, we provide opportunities to learn and develop at every stage of your career. Whether you’re a student, graduate or experienced professional we’ll support you to grow.

For leaders, our tailored development journeys are designed to stretch and strengthen your leadership skills. As well as practical training, we give you access to renowned business schools and experiential programmes for greater breadth and depth of learning.

A purpose to feel proud of

We’re proud to make a difference to people together. We’re values-driven with a commercial focus on performance - because the more profit we make, the more we can achieve for people.

What brings us together is a passionate belief in progress and people.

Read more about the values and purpose that drive us on our careers website.

How we hire

We aim to make our hiring process simple and fair:

1. Online application
2. Interview(s)
3. Decision and offer

We put the safeguarding of our customers, colleagues and contractors at the heart of everything we do and as such, certain roles will be subject to a DBS check.