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Lead Business Analyst
£45,000 - 45,000
BAE Systems
Market Square, Preston
£45,000 - 45,000
Requirements
Must:
We are looking for candidates who possess the following essential skills and experiences:
- Experience in eliciting, documenting, and prioritizing requirements for technical projects, including leading workshops for requirements and business process capture.
- Previous experience in stakeholder management, including the ability to influence various stakeholders across multiple business functions and areas.
Desirable skills and experiences include:
- Demonstrable experience of working within a structured and well-governed IT project environment.
- Recognized Business Analysis qualifications such as BCS BA Diploma, IIBA, or Agile BA.
- IT qualifications such as ITIL certification.
- Experience working at a programme level or delivering across multiple simultaneous projects.
- Evidence of analyzing and documenting complex business processes.
Responsibilities
In this role, I will lead the understanding of business needs when demand enters the programme, define the initial project scope, and articulate the supporting business justification. I will take charge of the BA function on a major programme of work and create programme-level approaches to business analysis. It is crucial for me to maintain a holistic view across the programme, ensuring that best practices are followed. I will support and direct a team of business analysts in their daily project expectations and help unblock any issues they encounter. Attending programme-level stakeholder meetings will allow me to represent the voice of business analysis. Additionally, I will report into the Senior BA/Capability Lead to ensure that issues are escalated and seek their support and oversight as needed. Prioritizing BA deliverables and effectively communicating these to the project BAs will also be part of my responsibilities.
Description
We offer a competitive salary of circa £45,000, depending on experience, along with a range of hybrid and flexible working arrangements. Our employee benefits include a competitive pension scheme, employee share plans, flexible discounted health, wellbeing, and lifestyle benefits, a green car scheme, private health plans, and shopping discounts. You may also be eligible for an annual incentive. At BAE Systems, we take pride in our experienced Business Analyst team, which delivers a comprehensive capability by engaging early in the process to understand our customers' needs, elicit their requirements, comprehend the impact of changes, and deliver tangible benefits. We provide a wide array of service offerings underpinned by industry-recognized tools and techniques. Here, you’ll have the opportunity to make a real difference in an inclusive culture that values diversity of thought, rewards integrity and merit, and empowers you to fulfill your potential. We welcome individuals from all backgrounds and strive to make our recruitment processes as inclusive as possible. If you have a disability or health condition that may affect your performance in certain assessments, please discuss potential reasonable adjustments with your recruiter. Please note that many roles at BAE Systems are subject to security and export control restrictions, which may affect your eligibility based on your nationality, any previous nationalities, and your place of birth. All applicants must achieve at least the Baseline Personnel Security Standard, with many roles requiring higher levels of National Security Vetting based on residency in the UK. The closing date for this vacancy is 23rd June 2025, but we reserve the right to close it early if we receive sufficient applications. If you are interested, please submit your application as early as possible.
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