IT Business Analyst in Bristol

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Business Analyst to join the Team in Derby or Bristol. This demanding Delivery Role reports to the VP M&A and Programme Delivery.

Why join Rolls-Royce

At Rolls-Royce we are proud to be a business that has truly helped to shape the modern world and are committed to always being a force for progress; powering, protecting and connecting people everywhere. By joining Rolls-Royce, you'll have the opportunity to work on world-class solutions, supported by a culture that believes individuality is our greatest strength, and all perspectives, experiences and backgrounds help us innovate and enable our high-performance culture.

Digital & IT has developed a five year strategy, supporting the ongoing transformation within Rolls-Royce. Executing against this strategy with pace and intensity is key to deliver Rolls-Royce’s longer-term corporate ambitions. This role is a project delivery role operating across the entire IT domain portfolio and supports this strategy by providing enterprise applications used by colleagues around the world in multiple businesses. You will be working across Digital & IT and will be required to effectively engage with the other delivery teams as required.

What you will be doing

The Business Analyst within Enterprise Solutions plays a vital role in bridging the gap between business needs and technical solutions. They work closely with stakeholders, Product Owners, and development teams to elicit, analyse, and document requirements for new and enhanced enterprise applications. The Business Analyst ensures that solutions align with the overall business strategy, enterprise architecture, and Rolls-Royce's move towards a more efficient and commercially optimised delivery model. They leverage their skills in business process improvement to identify opportunities for optimisation and contribute to the delivery of high-quality, cost-effective solutions.

Key Accountabilities:

• Fosters strong collaboration between business stakeholders, Product Owners, development teams, and System Integrators, ensuring clear communication and alignment.
• Undertake consulting and business analysis activities, such as interviews, facilitated workshops, business process capture, modelling and improvement, business requirements elicitation and documentation, in order to ensure that the team is able to implement its products in the customer organisation.
• Ensures that developed solutions directly address business needs and align with the overall business strategy and enterprise architecture.
• Contributes to the delivery of high-quality software by ensuring that requirements are clearly defined, documented, and testable.
• Translates high-level requirements into detailed functional and non-functional product requirements / user stories / use cases; gains artefact approval from relevant stakeholders.
• Provides data-driven insights to support informed decision-making by stakeholders.
• Identifies and helps implement process improvements, contributing to a more efficient and cost-effective delivery model within Enterprise Solutions.
• Proactively identifies and analyses risks associated with requirements and proposes mitigation strategies.
• Helps define and track measurable business objectives, demonstrating the value delivered by Enterprise Solutions initiatives.

Skills and Experience:

• Degree level or extensive experience in a similar role.
• Well-developed knowledge and understanding of a product and services business model (including working with COTS products).
• Well-developed communication and negotiation skills, including the demonstrated ability to communicate, influence and negotiate outcomes at a senior management level.
• Strong analytical and consultative skills.
• Strong decision maker and personality, able to engage in robust debate and negotiate engineering principles against short-term business pressures.

Regional Benefits

This role offers strong development opportunities and broad exposure across multiple activities, making it ideal for someone looking to expand their technical and operational capability within a world-class organisation.

• Work in a safety-first environment where doing the right thing and keeping it simple are core principles.
• Join a culture that values making a real difference through your work.
• Develop your career as a mid-career professional blending technical expertise with strong personal qualities.
• Thrive in a role that encourages integrity, accountability, resilience, and curiosity.
• Collaborate and build relationships in a team-focused environment while also working independently.
• Take initiative, lead, and make smart decisions with confidence and support.
• Grow through continuous learning, openness to improvement, and exposure to challenging opportunities.

Our vision is to ensure that the excellence and ingenuity that shaped our history continues into our future. Our multi-year transformation programme aims to turn Rolls-Royce into a high-performing, competitive, resilient and growing company. Join us, and it can be your future vision too.

Rolls-Royce are committed to being a respectful, inclusive, and non-discriminatory workplace where individuality is valued, diverse perspectives fuel innovation, and everyone can thrive.