Location: Cora Health, The Lightbox, Quorum Park, Benton Lane, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, NE12 8EU
Contract Type: Permanent
Salary: competitive
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
Purpose of the Job Role
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.
What you’ll be doing
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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.
What we’re Looking For
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Strategic solution design and architecture expertise, translating business needs into scalable end-to-end solutions.
- Strong business analysis and problem-solving skills with experience leading requirements in complex environments.
- Proven leadership and business partnering, influencing senior stakeholders and developing high-performing BA teams.
- Deep systems thinking and communication, bridging business and technical audiences effectively.
- Knowledge of healthcare systems (e.g., SystmOne, Soliton), enterprise architecture frameworks, and digital transformation.
- Experience with integrations, data flows, M&A/service convergence, and emerging technologies.
- Resilient, analytical, and patient-focused mindset with strong governance and accountability.
- TOGAF certification is desirable but not essential.
Why work for Cora Health?
At Cora we’re passionate about investing in our colleagues, fostering professional growth, and ensuring everyone feels appreciated. We believe that happy and engaged colleagues provide exceptional patient care and will be motivated to perform at their best. Here's a glimpse of what we offer you:
Generous Holiday Entitlement: Benefit from up to 25 days of holiday (plus public holidays) to relax and recharge. You’ll also get another day off for your Birthday. If you’d like even more holiday to enjoy you can participate in our generous holiday buy and sell scheme.
Wellness Support: Access a suite of health support tools and an employee assistance program for your well-being so you can be at your best and be your true self.
Performance Awards: Excel in your objectives and be rewarded further for your hard work with a range of pay, gifts and incentives awarded alongside attending our annual colleague awards to be treated and feel special.
Savings and Support: Make huge saving by making the most of Blue Light and Healthcare Services discounts as well as the very important employer pension contributions and a Christmas savings club.
Membership Fee Reimbursement: Save your pennies, as we cover the cost of role required professional membership fees.
Flexibility: Work in a way that supports home live, through hybrid working options and flexibility in working hours and times.
