AMS PSR

On behalf of UKRI, we are looking for a Business Analyst Inside IR35 for a contract ending in March 2027 based REMOTELY with occasional travel to Swindon .

UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) is the national funding agency investing in science and research in the UK.

UKRI invests £8 billion of taxpayers’ money each year into research and innovation and the people who make it happen. They work across a huge range of fields – from biodiversity conservation to quantum computing, and from space telescopes to innovative health care. They give everyone the opportunity to contribute and to benefit, bringing together people and organisations nationally and globally to create, develop and deploy new ideas and technologies.

As a Business Analyst , your main responsibilities will be to:

• Conduct current-state (AS-IS) analysis, performing detailed assessments of existing IAM processes, systems (including Ideiio), and identifying key pain points across UKRI.
• Design and define future-state (TO-BE) processes, developing optimised workflows for identity governance, lifecycle management, and access control aligned with Zero Trust principles.
• Produce comprehensive requirements documentation, including prioritised functional and non-functional requirements, user stories, and acceptance criteria for the target IAM solution.
• Lead stakeholder and user needs analysis, consolidating business, security, and technical requirements across councils and diverse user groups.
• Develop data and role models, defining roles, access profiles, and identity data structures to enable effective role-based access control and governance.
• Contribute to business case development, providing supporting artefacts, including benefits analysis, process improvement insights, and impact assessments.

Essential:

• Experience in identity access management or security background
• Demonstrated ability to conduct detailed current-state (AS-IS) analysis of IAM processes and systems (including Ideiio), identify key pain points, and design and define future-state (TO-BE) solution
• Proven ability to manage and resolve stakeholder disputes effectively, ensuring alignment and maintaining productive working relationships.

Desirable:

• Public sector background

Please be aware that this role can only be worked within the UK and not Overseas.

Disability Confident 

As a member of the Disability Confident Scheme, UKRI guarantees to interview all candidates who have a disability and who meet all the essential criteria for the vacancy. In cases where we have a high volume of candidates who have a disability who meet all the essential criteria, we will interview the best candidates from within that group. This scheme encourages candidates with a disability and/or neurodivergence to apply. In exceptional circumstances, we may also need to apply the desirable criteria in our shortlisting process which may include holding active security clearance.

In applying for this role, you acknowledge the following "this role falls in scope of the Off Payroll Working in the Public Sector legislation. Any rates of payment quoted will reflect the gross rate per day for the assignment and will be subject to appropriate taxes and statutory costs. As such the payment to the intermediary and your income resulting from this contract will be different".