Senior Business Analyst: Data Analytics in Preston

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.

Salary: £50,000

Responsibilities

• Leading end-to-end business analysis activities for large-scale projects, collaborating with cross-functional teams and stakeholders to identify and document business requirements.
• Development and optimization of business processes and actively participating in sprint planning, backlog grooming, and daily stand-ups, ensuring timely and successful project deliveries.
• Collaborating with the development team to translate business requirements into technical specifications, ensuring alignment between business needs and system functionalities.
• Developing and maintaining a requirements traceability matrix (functional and non-functional), ensuring comprehensive coverage of business needs and smooth project execution.
• Collaborating with key stakeholders to define and prioritize business requirements.

Qualifications

Essential:

• Excellent stakeholder management skills (internal and external), to ensure alignment and consensus across multiple work streams.
• Extensive experience in collecting, documenting, and validating business requirements, through workshops and stakeholder meetings.
• Mentoring junior business analysts, providing guidance on techniques and best practices.
• Excellent documentation production, clearly stating the different stages of projects ranging from Business Requirements, As-Is/Would-Be process flows, Use Cases, and any functional specifications.
• Experience and understanding of Agile and Waterfall methodologies.
• Experience of working with Solution, Domain, Data and Enterprise Architects, hence forming a good relationship, and acting as a bridge between the business and the Architects teams, so requirements are not misunderstood.

Desirable:

• Business analysis certification or qualification.
• Experience working with TOGAF or ITIL practices.
• Experience in BPMN methodology.
• Any experience (multiple large-scale projects) working with ERP systems and understanding their complexity and dependencies.

Benefits

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

The Business Analysis team consists of a mixture of Junior, Midlevel and Senior Business Analysts. Each individual brings their own unique experience and skills to their engagements. The team relies on each other for guidance and direction where needed. The team is spread across nearly all sectors of the business gaining valuable perspective and ways of working techniques. The team has now started to collaborate more within the team, where artefacts, workshop techniques and other Business Analysis techniques are shared, discussed and improved upon. It is a great team to work with, where the sense of belonging is felt.

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: 13th February 2026. 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.