Senior Business Analyst

Location(s): [[mfield3]]
BAE Systems Digital Intelligence is home to 4,500 digital, cyber and intelligence experts. We work collaboratively across 10 countries to collect, connect and understand complex data, so that governments, nation states, armed forces and commercial businesses can unlock digital advantage in the most demanding environments.

The role is to work directly with external client organization to investigate business situations, and then identify and evaluate options for improvements to systems and operations. The business analyst should apply appropriate techniques (requirements management, process improvement, functional analysis, etc) to define, manage and support implementation of effective solutions to business issues.

You will join the multicultural global team, helping us shaping our product family roadmap.

Key Responsibilities

Ability to plan and facilitate effective workshops

Investigates operational requirements, problems, and opportunities,

Assists in the analysis of stakeholder objectives, and the underlying issues arising from investigations into business requirements and problems, and identifies options for consideration

Identifies potential benefits, and available options for consideration

Works with clients/users in defining acceptance criteria

Involvement in scoping and business priority-setting for change initiatives of small/medium size and complexity

Selects appropriate techniques for the elicitation of detailed requirements taking into account the nature of the required changes, established practice and the characteristics and culture of those providing the requirements

Obtains formal agreement by stakeholders and recipients to scope and requirements and establishes a base-line on which delivery of a solution can commence

Identifies requests for and the application of changes to baselined requirements

Identifies the impact on business requirements of interim (e.g. migration) scenarios as well as the required end position

Support the requirements elicitation process where necessary, identifying what stakeholder input is required

Assists the investigation and application of changes to programme scope.

Assesses, analyses, develops, documents and implements changes based on requests for change.

Key Requirements

Minimum of 2+ years' experience within the IT industry in a BA client-facing role.

Client-facing experience is essential including delivering presentations and product demonstrations, running workshops and managing client's expectations

Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal and able to communicate confidently and effectively at any level of the organization.

An understanding of compliance processes and workflows within the financial services industry advantageous

Good knowledge of IT systems, architectures and terminology

Strong interpersonal skills

Any Business Analysis framework certifications would be a plus

Please be aware that many roles at BAE Systems are subject to both security and export control restrictions. These restrictions mean that factors such as your nationality, any nationalities you may have previously held, and your place of birth can restrict the roles you are eligible to perform within the organisation. All applicants must as a minimum achieve Baseline Personnel Security Standard.

Life at BAE Systems Digital Intelligence
We are embracing Hybrid Working. This means you and your colleagues may be working in different locations, such as from home, another BAE Systems office or client site, some or all of the time, and work might be going on at different times of the day.

By embracing technology, we can interact, collaborate and create together, even when we're working remotely from one another. Hybrid Working allows for increased flexibility in when and where we work, helping us to balance our work and personal life more effectively, and enhance well-being.

Diversity and inclusion are integral to the success of BAE Systems Digital Intelligence. We are proud to have an organisational culture where employees with varying perspectives, skills, life experiences and backgrounds – the best and brightest minds – can work together to achieve excellence and realise individual and organisational potential.

Division overview: Capabilities
At BAE Systems Digital Intelligence, we pride ourselves in being a leader in the cyber defence industry, and Capabilities is the engine that keeps the business moving forward. It is the largest area of Digital Intelligence, containing our Engineering, Consulting and Project Management teams that design and implement the defence solutions and digital transformation projects that make us a globally recognised brand in both the public and private sector.

As a member of the Capabilities team, you will be creating and managing the solutions that earn us our place in an ever changing digital world. We all have a role to play in defending our clients, and this is yours.