Role Title: Senior Business Analyst
Reports to: Head of Digital Innovation
Location: Belfast, Hybrid (3 days in office, 2 days remote)
Who We Are
SONI is Northern Ireland’s Transmission System Operator. We are the people behind Northern Ireland’s electricity grid. We make sure that every home, business, school, hospital, factory and farm has power - when and where they need it.
And that’s just the beginning of our story. We have a critical role to play in delivering a cleaner, cheaper more secure energy future for everyone living in Northern Ireland.
Our focus is on safety, security and reliability. Our work environment is challenging, fast-moving, collaborative and team orientated. Our culture is driven by continual development, knowledge and teamwork.
Our people are committed to reducing Northern Ireland’s reliance on fossil fuels and transforming the energy system to make decarbonisation a reality – while providing a safe and reliable electricity supply in a way that secures the future for those who follow us.
The work you will deliver with us here at SONI matters. Join a great and supportive team and be part of the transformation.
The Role
We are seeking a Senior Business Analyst to play a key role in our IT Separation Programme and wider digital transformation. This is a unique opportunity to contribute to some of the most important changes SONI will undertake in the coming years.
You will work closely with experts across the organisation to understand business needs, shape future processes and ensure that new systems and solutions support SONI's long term goals.
This role spans digital and corporate systems, cloud platforms, data analytics, operational tools and control centre applications—making it an ideal opportunity for someone who enjoys complex, meaningful work with real impact.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead business analysis activities across a wide range of business areas, supporting IT transformation and the development of future SONI systems.
- Gather, analyse and document business requirements by engaging with stakeholders and subject matter experts.
- Translate complex business needs into clear, structured specifications for design and delivery teams.
- Prepare and lead requirements workshops and sessions, ensuring both technical and nontechnical colleagues are fully engaged.
- Contribute to business cases, proposals and solution options.
• Work with third party suppliers and partners to define and deliver solutions aligned with SONI’s strategy. • Identify risks, gaps and issues early and communicate them clearly.
- Support requirements prioritisation and help stakeholders make informed decisions.
- Create high quality documentation, including requirements documents, process maps, data flows and business specifications.
- Develop requirements through to formal signoff, following SONI’s governance processes.
- Play an active role in solution design, ensuring cross system impacts are considered.
- Work with the business to define functional requirements that support system design.
- Support change impact assessments, training strategies and implementation activities.
- Manage change requests throughout the lifecycle of new developments and system changes.
- Bring forward new ideas and draw on external best practice to help improve ways of working.
Critical Knowledge, Skills and Experience
Essential:
- Extensive practical experience in Business Analysis activities (i.e. requirement gathering, creating specifications, workshop facilitation, business process design, reports design and business process modelling)
- In depth understanding of the full Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC)
- Detail oriented with an ability to understand customer needs
- Stakeholder management experience, determining and documenting requirements
- Good verbal and written communication skills, capable of synthesising complex inputs to requirements and presenting to stakeholders across the business
- Energetic, self-starter, willing to learn and grow in a dynamic and fast passed environment
- Able to operate with both agile and waterfall methodologies
- Understanding of the need for effective governance and oversight process
- Able to work with others and to collaborate with a diverse range of people to arrive at the optimum solutions
Desirable:
- Experience of working in the utility or energy sectors
- Knowledge of energy sector information technology solutions
Why join us?
- Play a vital role in shaping sustainable energy projects that benefit communities and the environment.
- Enjoy a competitive salary, performance-related bonus, private medical cover, and pension matching.
- Benefit from flexible working arrangements, including hybrid options (3 days office / 2 days home). This role is not fully remote.
- Enhanced holidays, maternity and paternity leave and wellbeing days.
- Access salary sacrifice schemes (such as cycle to work, EV scheme), free car parking, onsite EV charging and complimentary lunch.
- Access professional development opportunities and clear career progression pathways.
- We offer an inclusive culture that values diversity, supports flexible working and empowers you to grow. We know flexible working means different things to different people. Contact us if you’d like to talk about how this role could work for you.
If you are seeking a challenging and impactful role within the energy sector, we’d love to hear from you. Join us in shaping the future of SONI and delivering a cleaner and more secure energy future for everyone living in Northern Ireland.
Closing date for applications is 9 July 2026.
SONI reserves the right to extend this deadline where necessary to maximise applicant pool.
Submit your application by uploading your CV with a cover letter (in one document).
SONI is proud to be an equal opportunities employer. We are committed to an inclusive workplace where diverse perspectives are valued, and everyone can thrive. As a STEM organisation, we are continuing to strengthen gender diversity across our engineering and technology roles and welcome applications from women who want to build and apply their expertise to Northern Ireland’s energy system.
We have a duty to prevent illegal working and applicants must demonstrate they have a legal right to work in the UK. SONI is not providing sponsorship for this vacancy. 