Business Analyst Lead

Lead the design and assurance of end-to-end solution architectures across complex healthcare systems, ensuring alignment with business strategy and target architecture. Translate business needs into integrated, scalable solutions, including integrations with legacy and modern systems (e.g., SystmOne, Soliton). Act as a strategic business partner to clinical, operational, and IM&T stakeholders, shaping technology-enabled change. Provide architectural oversight across multiple programmes, promoting reuse, interoperability, and alignment to digital strategy. Support organisational readiness for mergers, acquisitions, and service integration through flexible, modular architectures. Evaluate and guide adoption of new technologies and innovations in partnership with the Innovation function. Lead and develop the Business Analysis team, embedding best practices in requirements definition and business partnering. Develop and maintain key architecture artefacts such as system maps, integration
diagrams, and target state architectures. Provide expert advice to leadership on system strategy, investment decisions, and risk mitigation (including technical debt). Ensure solutions comply with security, information governance, and healthcare regulations. Provide strategic direction while maintaining a practical, hands-on approach, contributing directly as a project delivery resource to ensure successful outcomes as required., The Business Analyst Lead is responsible for shaping end-to-end solutions that align business strategy with technology delivery, while leading and developing the Business Analysis capability. This role acts as a critical bridge between business and IT, translating complex needs into coherent, scalable, and value-driven solutions. It provides strategic leadership across programmes, ensures robust requirements and architecture governance, and drives measurable business value in a healthcare environment.

Connect Health and Healthshare have come together as one organisation - Cora Health - combining our decades of experience in providing healthcare services on behalf of the NHS