Our Programmes

Business Analysis

Enable digital change

On our business analysis pathway, you will learn the necessary skills to become a business analyst capable of managing organisational change and bridging the gap between technical and non-technical stakeholders. As a business analyst, you will:

  • Map business processes to understand workflows and recommend changes or enhancements to improve efficiency across business areas.
  • Collaborate with multiple stakeholders to understand business needs, challenges and objectives and transform these into developmental solutions.
  • Create detailed documentation and facilitate workshops and meetings to gather business requirements, validation solutions and ensure alignment.
  • Manage organisational change by preparing materials, conducting training, and ensuring stakeholders are ready for new technology and processes.
How it works

Realise your potential

Across the 8-weeks of immersive training and 2-year placement, you will master the critical technical and professional skills needed to start and progress in your career as a business analyst.

Practical Skills

Our training will provide you with the technical foundations needed to start your first role as a business analyst, through a combination of theoretical teaching, hands-on experience and practical projects.

Throughout your placement, you will start to become a master in the core business analytics methodologies, frameworks and technologies as you progress in your career.

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Professional Skills

All of our programmes are underpinned by comprehensive professional skills training which will be supported by continued further development whilst you are on your
industry placement.

Alongside your technical development, you will develop your consulting skills, learn delivery methodologies like Agile and enhance your communication and presentation skills.

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Certification

All the training at Digital Futures is underpinned by industry-aligned certifications, ensuring are set up for success. As a business analyst, you will complete the BCS Practitioner Certificate in Business Analytics Practice.

Successfully passing this certification will ensure that you have the skills and competency needed to secure your placement and become a professional business analyst.

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Become a technical business analyst

You will learn the automation and technical skills needed to become a technical business analyst, allowing you to support business methodologies and strategies with technical skills and expertise.

Meet your instructor

Throughout the Academy, you will be taught by instructors who are experts in their fields, who are now passing on their knowledge and expertise to the next generation of business analysts.

Lisa Carpenter
Lisa Carpenter
Lead Instructor

Lisa is the Lead Data Science Instructor at Digital Futures, with responsibility for the design of our data programmes and delivery of a world-class learning experience for our engineers. Lisa has over 10 years experience in the data industry.

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Unlock your future career

Our programme will give you the capability to take the first steps into your career in business analysis and technology as well as giving you the confidence to grow and progress.

Following our 8-week Academy, our engineers have gone into a variety of roles and continue to progress across the 2 years and beyond, working in domain areas such as ESG, Risk and Compliance, Applied and Generative AI, Climate Analytics and Wholesale IT.

The roles you could go into include:

Business Analyst | Technical Business Analyst | Change Analyst |
Digital Transformation Specialist

Our success stories

Read our engineers’ stories below and find out more about their journey with Digital Futures.

Sharif Khan

Business Analyst

“I’m so happy to have been placed as a business analyst. My goal was to get my foot in the door and I’ve managed to get into a tech adjacent role, which is great. The fact that I really understand the technical and architectural side of things has really set me up well and makes it easier to communicate between teams.”

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Neha Mathur

Business Analyst

“The team I’m a part of is really nice, very helpful and very flexible which I really appreciate. What I find particularly engaging is the connection between the business and technical side of things. Having the understanding of both is important – I didn’t realise how important this is until joining Digital Futures.”

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Frank Mulungi

Business Analyst

“My strengths were identified by the team and when it came to placements I was put forward for a business analyst role which was better suited to my skillset. Starting this role has really helped me realise that I fit better in more of stakeholder facing role. The team at Digital Futures knew my strengths and got me to the right place.”

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Practical Skills

Our training is constantly evolving with the requirements of industry meaning that you will be able to effectively implement the skills you learn in the Academy when you transition to client site.

Course Modules
Description & Content

Coding fundamentals

Build up your fundamental coding skills in Python, SQL and Excel VBA.

Exploratory data analysis

Understand the patterns within data, changes over time in business metrics and deliver on requirements, using Python, SQL and Tableau.

Data storytelling and visualisation

Represent data through visualisations to communicate complex data relationships and provide actionable insights and support data-driven decision-making
using Tableau.

Stakeholder management and business change

Identify stakeholder needs and determine how to engage different types of stakeholders to determine an effective approach to implementing change.

Creating a business case

Develop proposals for new strategies or large initiatives which outline the business needs and benefits your organisation will receive from pursuing this opportunity.

Analysing and modelling business activities

Create models that assess high-level business
activity to identify where improvements can be made
to business processes.

Identifying potential solutions

Identify possible business and technological solutions and improvements to processes.

Business context and understanding

Understand the underlying objectives and strategies driving projects and aligning proposals with stakeholder priorities, tracing requirements back to business concerns, and envisioning the business transformation resulting from initiatives.

Professional Skills

We place equal emphasis on professional skills training and professional development to ensure our engineers are workplace ready and can integrate into high-performing teams.

Our comprehensive professional skills training runs in parallel with our technical skills training. Our professional skills training has been designed to equip our engineers with the relevant consulting, communication and teamworking skills required to complement their technical skills and deliver in high-performing tech teams.

Teamwork: Learn the importance of active listening, effective feedback and communication and how to effectively implement these skills in a workplace scenario.

Business Acumen: Develop your business acumen through learning about the fundamentals of business concepts, understanding KPIs and the importance of customer and stakeholder centricity.

Consulting Skills: Learn the critical consulting skills required for success in your first role, including time management, prioritisation, goal setting, and stakeholder management.

Presentations: You will learn to put together effective presentations, to clearly communicate your findings and to confidently deliver your ideas.

Agile Methodology: Learn the key values, principles, and practices of Agile methodology that will allow you to initiate an Agile conversation with co-workers and enable you to work in an Agile way.

Being a Brand Ambassador: Learn how to develop and enhance your personal brand as well as what is expected of you when you are deployed on client site.

Interview Technique: You will receive comprehensive coaching on interview technique, through weekly interview-specific training sessions, peer interview practise and mock interviews with members of the team.

Certifications

All of our pathways are industry accredited, validating your proficiency in the technologies, methodologies and skills in your chosen pathway before you start your first role. 

On our Business Analysis pathway, you will be required to successfully complete one certification in order to graduate from the Academy and be made available for placement.

BCS Practitioner Certificate in Business Analysis Practice
The BCS Practitioner Certificate in Business Analysis Practice will ensure you have a strong foundation in business analysis, enabling you to support digital change and accelerate and improve business processes by bringing together your technical and business knowledge. 

You will learn how to develop a business strategy and how to explore a business issue, how to apply a range of business analysis techniques and look at a range of issues including strategic context, analysing stakeholder perspectives, how to analyse and model business activities, how to identify potential solutions and how to make the business case.