Senior Business Analyst

Job Description - Senior Business Analyst ()

Senior Business Analyst -

Job Title: Senior Business Analyst

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

What you'll be doing:

Lead and develop the Business Analysis delivery and capability within the Enterprise IT (EIT) Product portfolio

Responsible for contributing to Business Analysis capability development and improvement across EIT programmes and portfolios, including transformation initiatives, providing assurance activities and support across the team

Align to portfolio level objectives, including requirements management, process development and non-complex business change across a portfolio of work or a team of business analysts

Lead on resource and capacity management for Product portfolio and understanding recruitment needs across the capability

Engagement with Senior Stakeholders across multiple domains and high impact programmes

Provide early stage and full lifecycle consultancy to senior business and project stakeholders in order to help shape projects (waterfall and Agile), establish feasibility, develop business change impact assessments and see them through delivery

The role has line manager responsibility for business analysts including development planning, performance management and HR queries

Your skills and experiences:

Previous line management, mentoring and coaching of Business Analysts

Good experience of leading successful business analyst activities on large, complex projects and programmes of work

Have demonstrable experience of working within a structured and well-governed Project environment

End to end experience of the project lifecycle, within a large complex organisation

Proven experience interacting directly with senior stakeholders

Technical training with BCS BA Diploma, Lean six sigma, agile BA, or similar is essential

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 Business Analysis team:

You will be joining an experienced team of Business Change and Business Analyst professionals, delivering end to end change management support and capability across enterprise technology projects. This is an opportunity to work within a key enterprise-wide technology transformation project. The role will work with multiple stakeholders globally and you will help drive and implement new ways of working across a large complex business.

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.

Closing Date: 15th July 2025

We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications for the role. Therefore, if you are interested, please submit your application as early as possible.