Senior Business Analyst (Cyber)

Job Title: Senior Business Analyst (Cyber)

Location: Preston. We offer a range of hybrid and flexible working arrangements – please speak to your recruiter about the options for this particular role

Salary: Circa £55,000 dependent on experience

What you’ll be doing: 

• Leading on understanding the business need when demand enters the programme, define initial scope and be able to articulate the supporting business justification
• Eliciting business requirements from multiple high profile stakeholders and business groups
• Helping build buy in and obtain sign-off of the high level business goals and requirements from Senior Management
• Establishing and maintaining strong stakeholder (internal and external) relationships, maintaining regular dialogue and managing expectations.
• Planning and leading workshops with stakeholders at all levels for requirements and business process capture and documentation.
• Ensuring governance in delivering correct Business Analysis artefacts
• Creating programme level approaches to Business Analysis

Your skills and experiences:

Essential:

• Demonstrable experience eliciting, documenting and prioritising requirements for technical IT projects, including leading workshops for requirements and business process capture
• Proven personal experience of stakeholder management including influencing different levels of stakeholder multiple business functions and areas
• Process modelling and continuous improvement experience

Desirable:

• Demonstrable experience of working within a structured and well governed IT Project environment
• Recognised Business Analysis qualifications such as BCS BA Diploma, IIBA, AgileBA
• Recognised IT qualification such as ITIL certification
• Experience of working at a programme level or delivering across multiple simultaneous projects
• Experience working in an agile context and or with a product based framework

Benefits: 

As well as a competitive pension scheme, BAE Systems also offers employee share plans, an extensive range of flexible discounted health, wellbeing and lifestyle benefits, including a green car scheme, private health plans and shopping discounts – you may also be eligible for an annual incentive.

The Cyber Capability Centre Team:

The team carries requirements management, process development and business change, across a major programme of work within Cyber Security. This role will also support the Function Leads in driving Business Analysis and Business Change best practice within EIT.

This role will provide you with the opportunity to support full lifecycle consultancy to senior business stakeholders in order to help shape programmes of work, establish feasibility and see them through to delivery. This includes identification and management of project stakeholders, supporting definition of project scope and objectives and assessing business needs to embed and ensure success.

Why BAE Systems?

This is a place where you’ll be able to make a real difference. You’ll be part of an inclusive culture that values diversity of thought, rewards integrity, and merit, and where you’ll be empowered to fulfil your potential. We welcome people from all backgrounds and want to make sure that our recruitment processes are as inclusive as possible. If you have a disability or health condition (for example dyslexia, autism, an anxiety disorder etc.) that may affect your performance in certain assessment types, please speak to your recruiter about potential reasonable adjustments.

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. Many roles also require higher levels of National Security Vetting where applicants must typically have 5 to 10 years of continuous residency in the UK depending on the vetting level required for the role, to allow for meaningful security vetting checks.