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Senior Business Analyst

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full-time

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Origin:  • 🇬🇧 United Kingdom

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Job Level

Senior

Tech Stack

AWSAzureCloudETLTableau

About the role

  • Act as the translator between stakeholders and delivery teams, co-creating clear requirements and managing blockers.
  • Influence senior defence stakeholders, build trusted relationships, and ensure business needs align with operational and strategic outcomes.
  • Lead discovery activities: scope opportunities, clarify problem spaces, and shape solutions that deliver maximum value.
  • Map and analyse as-is processes, design to-be processes, and apply service and product thinking to create user-centred solutions.
  • Analyse diverse data sources to define metrics, design meaningful MI, and create visualisations that enable decision-making.
  • Lead MI and analytics projects, using modelling and analysis to assess risks, opportunities, benefits, and costs.
  • Craft visual models, user stories, acceptance criteria, and concise documentation.
  • Support implementation, troubleshoot issues, and ensure successful adoption of change.
  • Mentor colleagues, share best practices, and contribute to the BA Community of Practice and career pathway.
  • Champion responsible use of data, ensuring compliance with governance and ethical principles in sensitive defence environments.

Requirements

  • Proven experience delivering management information (MI), data analytics, and discovery projects.
  • Skilled in analysing data sources to define metrics and design dashboards/visualisations (Power BI, Tableau).
  • Highly self-motivated and proactive, driving outcomes without waiting for instruction.
  • Comfortable with ambiguity and able to operate effectively when challenges are unclear or complex.
  • Confident engaging and influencing stakeholders, from C-suite to delivery squads.
  • Skilled in eliciting and refining business requirements (workshops, interviews, workflow mapping).
  • Experienced in Agile ways of working and tools (Jira, Azure DevOps, Trello).
  • Proficient in developing Epics, Use Cases, and User Stories with scenario-based acceptance criteria.
  • Knowledge of relational data modelling, ETL, and cloud platforms (Azure, AWS).
  • Awareness of Data Science, AI, and big data principles.
  • Desirable: Experience in Defence or Supply Chain sectors.
  • Desirable: IIBA or BCS professional certification.
  • Desirable: Awareness of data governance (DAMA) and/or data architecture principles.
  • Desirable: Understanding of user-centred design and service design principles.
  • Desirable: Exposure to AI-enabled analysis tools or low/no-code prototyping.