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Business Analyst

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full-time

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Origin:  • 🇬🇧 United Kingdom

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Job Level

Mid-LevelSenior

Tech Stack

AWSAzureCloudETLTableau

About the role

  • Act as the bridge between stakeholders and delivery teams, co-creating clear requirements and supporting issue resolution.
  • Build trusted relationships with defence stakeholders, ensuring business needs are understood and aligned with outcomes.
  • Contribute to discovery activities, scoping opportunities, clarifying problem spaces, and supporting solution design.
  • Map and analyse as-is processes, support design of to-be processes, and apply service thinking to create user-centred improvements.
  • Analyse data sources to define metrics, contribute to design of meaningful MI, and create visualisations that support decision-making.
  • Contribute to MI and analytics projects, assessing risks, opportunities, benefits, and costs, and making data-driven recommendations.
  • Produce visual models, user stories, acceptance criteria, and concise documentation to bring clarity to complexity.
  • Support implementation, troubleshoot issues, and ensure adoption of change during delivery.
  • Support colleagues, share best practices, and actively contribute to shaping the BA Community of Practice and career pathway.
  • Promote responsible use of data, ensuring compliance with governance and ethical principles within sensitive defence environments.
  • Contribute to bids and proposals, represent the BA community, and potentially line manage or coach 1–2 junior analysts.

Requirements

  • Experience contributing to MI, data analytics, and discovery projects.
  • Ability to analyse data sources, define business questions and metrics, and support dashboard/visualisation design (Power BI, Tableau).
  • Proactive and self-motivated, able to drive outcomes while developing confidence and independence.
  • Comfortable with ambiguity and able to adapt when challenges are unclear or complex.
  • Confident engaging with stakeholders across different levels.
  • Skilled in eliciting and refining business requirements (workshops, interviews, workflow mapping).
  • Familiar with Agile ways of working and tools (Jira, Azure DevOps, Trello).
  • Proficient in developing Epics, Use Cases, and User Stories with scenario-based acceptance criteria.
  • Awareness of relational data modelling, ETL, and cloud platforms (Azure, AWS).
  • Awareness of Data Science, AI, and big data principles.
  • Desirable: Experience in Defence.
  • 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.