Senior Business Analyst - Digital Archiving

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Sword Services is recruiting a Senior Business Analyst to join a Geneva-based client onsite as part of a strategic digital transformation initiative to implement a future digital preservation platform ensuring long term accessibility and preservation of critical archival assets. The role demands close business IT collaboration to translate needs into functional and technical specs, facilitate workshops, lead user acceptance testing, and produce clear documentation while guiding scope, dependencies, and risks. To apply, tailor your CV to spotlight over 15 years in BA within complex environments, proven stakeholder management, and the ability to coordinate multidisciplinary teams with architects and product owners. Highlight digital preservation or archiving experience, bilingual English French, and your track record delivering actionable deliverables on time, on budget, with measurable impact.

We are opening a position for a Senior Business Analyst to strengthen the team of our client based in Geneva. In the context of a strategic digital transformation initiative, the successful candidate will contribute to the definition and implementation of a future digital preservation platform aimed at ensuring long-term accessibility and preservation of critical archival assets. This role requires close collaboration between business and IT stakeholders to bridge operational needs with technology solutions.

Job Responsibilities

• Gather, analyze, and structure business needs through active engagement with key stakeholders.

• Convert business expectations into comprehensive functional and technical specifications.

• Partner with architects, technical leads, product owners, and other IT specialists to design solutions aligned with organizational objectives.

• Contribute to the implementation and deployment of digital solutions, ensuring they effectively address business requirements.

• Coordinate and support user acceptance testing activities to validate solution quality and fitness for purpose.

• Produce clear user documentation and support materials to facilitate adoption.

• Assist program and project leadership in managing scope, dependencies, risks, and planning activities.

• Facilitate collaboration and alignment across multidisciplinary teams to support informed decision-making.

Requirements

• At least 15 years of professional experience in Business Analysis within complex environments.

• Strong capability to elicit, analyze, and formalize business requirements into actionable deliverables.

• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to interact effectively at all organizational levels.

• Proven experience facilitating workshops, meetings, and decision-making sessions involving diverse stakeholders.

• Strong analytical mindset combined with a pragmatic and solution-oriented approach.

• Ability to manage multiple priorities simultaneously in a dynamic project environment.

• Knowledge of digital preservation, archiving platforms, or related information management technologies is highly desirable.

• Professional fluency in both English and French.