DV Cleared Business Analyst

Introduction

Our client is a large Consultancy company who are working with the Government and Defence sector on technology projects and are looking for a number of Business Analysts on a permanent basis to ensure optimised performance.

This is a really exciting time to join our client’s business as they take on more and more projects and programmes in the Defence/Government sector!

You will need Defence/National security experience to be considered for this role.

Working Patterns: This role is hybrid with 2-3 days per week on site but candidates must be prepared to travel up to 4 days per week UK wide if required.

Key responsibilities

• Work with clients within Defence and National Security to capture and document business requirements to ensure a clear understanding of their needs and objectives.
• Perform detailed analysis of business processes, systems and data to identify opportunities for improvement.
• Facilitate workshops and interviews to gather requirements, user stories and use cases.
• Analyse and document business processes, workflows and system interactions to ensure alignment with business goals.
• Translate business requirements into functional specifications and user stories to ensure feasibility for development teams.
• Perform data analysis to identify trends, patterns and insights which can drive business decision-making and process improvements.
• Define and implement product centric operating models.
• Manage product ownership practices and processes, ensuring products developed meet the customer requirements.
• Conduct impact assessments and feasibility studies to evaluate proposed solutions and identify potential risks.
• Support testing and quality assurance activities, ensuring that solutions meet the defined requirements.
• Provide ongoing support and guidance to clients and stakeholders throughout the project lifecycle.

Skills & experience

• Proven experience as a Business Analyst or in a similar role within Defence, Government or National Security.
• Have a strong track record of delivering business requirements within a project delivery environment.
• Strong analytical skills within technology.
• Experience with process modelling and lean practices, use case development and requirements elicitation.
• Experience with Agile delivery and tools such as Scrum, Kanban, SAFe 5.0, LeSS.
• Consulting experience is a real bonus.
• Knowledge of how PowerBI, Tableau, QlikSense or other analytical tools.
• Expertise in how to test against requirements and ensure confidence in the outputs.

Additional benefits

• Holidays, starting at 25 days a year.
• A flexible contributory pension arrangement with matching contributions.
• Life assurance of six times your core salary (up to a maximum of six times the Earnings Cap, in force at date of death).
• Occupational sick pay.
• Personal accident insurance.
• Mobile phone is not fully funded but you can claim on expenses for business use.

Our client is committed to providing a diverse and inclusive workplace and welcomes applications from all backgrounds.

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