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About the Role

Taylor & Francis is investing in digital transformation and seeks a Principal Business Analyst to support its Business Architecture function. This role will lead complex, cross-domain analysis, contribute to building the T&F business architecture, and help establish standards and methodologies for business analysis across the organization.

Responsibilities

• Lead complex and cross-domain analysis initiatives, defining scope, approach, dependencies, and resource needs.
• Coordinate Domain Business Analysts through design and implementation, ensuring coherence and resolving conflicts.
• Own requirements coherence across domain boundaries, preventing contradictions.
• Lead requirements elicitation and facilitation for high-ambiguity or senior-stakeholder initiatives.
• Lead feasibility and options analysis for significant initiatives, presenting recommendations to senior stakeholders.
• Manage stakeholder relationships across domain teams and senior product, delivery, and engineering stakeholders.
• Contribute to UAT planning across domains for cross-domain initiatives.
• Maintain analytical quality throughout design and implementation, escalating contentious analysis problems.
• Act as the primary BA point of contact for the Business Architect within the domain group.
• Ensure BA work feeds the business architecture, documenting processes, organizational structures, systems, and data flows.
• Lead the documentation of capability-level processes, organizational structures, systems, and data flows.
• Support the creation and analysis of Business Decision Records (BDRs).
• Validate that initiative analysis aligns with the target architecture and domain model.
• Jointly define and maintain T&F BA methodology, standards, templates, and shared vocabulary.
• Jointly define the BA competency framework and progression model.
• Jointly run the T&F BA community of practice.
• Jointly define requirements governance and UAT standards for the BA community.
• Provide quality oversight of BA outputs within the aligned domain group.
• Coach Domain BAs on technique, standards, and approach.

Requirements

• Hold authority through expertise, not position.
• Comfortable leading large, ambiguous initiatives while coordinating Business Analysts not formally managed.
• Confident raising standards of a mixed BA team with varying skills and backgrounds.
• Communicate clearly in writing and in person, especially with senior business and engineering audiences.
• Patience to build business architecture and BA capability incrementally.
• Nurture an open environment where stakeholders and collaborators feel involved and heard.
• Work across silos to articulate and achieve shared goals.
• Willing to challenge constructively, including pushing back on delivery pressure when it conflicts with BA practice standards.
• Exceptional ability to analyze complex problems, frame them well, and drive towards decisions with the customer in mind.
• Degree-level education, or equivalent professional experience.
• Substantial track record of business analysis in complex, multi-domain organisations.
• Demonstrated experience scoping and leading large, complex or cross-domain analysis initiatives end-to-end.
• Demonstrated experience setting BA standards and methodology in a federated or distributed delivery environment.
• Direct experience working alongside enterprise or business architects on capability-driven analysis and design.
• Strong track record of engaging at senior stakeholder level.
• Coaching and developmental experience with junior or mid-career BAs.
• Demonstrated experience of working with colleagues in multiple locations and time zones.
• Must have the right to work and live in UK.

Skills

• Business analysis
• Business architecture
• Requirements elicitation
• Stakeholder management
• Coaching
• Communication (written and verbal)
• Problem-solving
• Process documentation
• Data flow modeling
• UAT planning

Location

• London, UK

Work Type

• Hybrid
• Full-time

Experience Level

• Senior
• Principal

Education Level

• Degree-level education or equivalent experience
• Business analysis certification desirable

Salary/Compensations

• Competitive salary + bonus

Benefits

• 24 days annual leave
• 4 volunteering days annually
• Day off for your birthday
• Pension contributions
• Medical insurance for self and dependants
• Life cover
• Personal accident cover
• Seasonal social and charitable events
• Training and development
• Tools and equipment for remote working

About the Company

• Informa is a leading academic publishing, business intelligence, knowledge and events business.
• Taylor & Francis is one of the world’s largest publishers of scholarly journals, books, e-books and reference works.
• Our purpose is to foster human progress through knowledge.
• We bring together diverse people, ideas and opinions to validate and publish the experts, theories and truths that matter.

Equal Opportunity

• Taylor & Francis is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer.
• We believe in and value diversity of people and thought, fostering a supportive and inclusive environment where all colleagues can learn and succeed as their true selves.
• Taylor & Francis recruits, develops, and retains colleagues without regard to any protected personal characteristics or other non-merit based factor.
• If you have a disability, or face another barrier, and would like to request an adjustment to assist your participation in the hiring process and/or in the advertised position, please contact [email protected].