Salary: 65,000 - 65,000 GBP per year Requirements:
* Highly experienced with a proven track record in a Business Analyst and Lead or Senior BA role.
* Security Clearance: SC as a minimum, with a willingness to undertake DV clearance.
* Team leadership experience managing a small team.
* Experience in supporting or delivering large-scale business change.
* Understanding of Waterfall and Agile methodologies.
* Strong stakeholder management, communication, and relationship management skills.
* Excellent analytical and problem-solving abilities, with sound knowledge of process review, business analysis, and system development methodologies.
* Relevant Professional IT Qualifications such as BCS BA Practitioner or Six Sigma Black Belt, or an IT degree.
Responsibilities:
* Lead the development and elaboration of compelling Business Cases and detailed requirements documentation for complex programmes and projects.
* Ensure that project benefits are clearly identified, mapped, and monitored at initiation and throughout the project lifecycle.
* Provide IT Governance assurance for non-functional requirements and ensure that projects and IT procurements adhere to these standards.
* Apply initiative to devise options and solutions to complex business problems, using a range of business analysis tools and techniques while considering differing perspectives, relevant policies, legislation, and regulations.
* Ensure that project solutions align with key stakeholder requirements and that any process changes resulting from the project are documented and understood.
* Coach, mentor, motivate, and supervise project and programme team Business Analysts to ensure successful project delivery.
* Actively engage with project sponsors throughout the project delivery lifecycle to ensure requirements are being adhered to and that scope changes are appropriately managed.
Technologies:
* Security
* Support
More:
We are looking for a Lead Business Analyst to join our team and take responsibility for a small group of Business Analysts while also staying hands-on in running your own projects. This position emerges at an exciting time as we develop our IT services and operations, focusing on our expanding defence portfolio of work. We prioritize applications from candidates with backgrounds in the defence, engineering, and manufacturing industries. In return, we offer annual salary reviews, company-paid private medical insurance, and an employer pension contribution of up to 12.5%. We also emphasize wellbeing, equity, diversity, inclusion, and opportunities for learning and development within a thriving R&D facility.