Location(s): UK, Europe & Africa : UK : Frimley || UK, Europe & Africa : UK : London
BAE Systems Digital Intelligence is home to 4,500 digital, cyber and intelligence experts. We work collaboratively across 10 countries to collect, connect and understand complex data, so that governments, nation states, armed forces and commercial businesses can unlock digital advantage in the most demanding environments.
Job Title: Business Analyst (Process Lead)
Location: London or Frimley, hybrid – We offer a range of hybrid and flexible working arrangements – please speak to your recruiter about the options for this particular role
Salary: Competitive
Who we are
Join BAE Systems and you’ll be part of something bigger. As a valued member of our global colleague network, you’ll bring your unique skills and perspectives to help pioneer progress and protect what matters most. You’ll be trusted to play your part in delivering the advanced, technology-led defence, aerospace and security solutions of tomorrow – shaping a safer future, for all of us.
From the depths of the ocean, to the far reaches of space – there’s no limit to where a career at BAE Systems could take you.
Role Description
This is a fixed term role for a period of up to 2 years supporting BAE Systems Group-mandated transformation initiatives, ensuring the adoption and business enablement of required capabilities into Digital Intelligence IM&T and wider business.
The role will cover two major transformation programmes, one of which is in an active transition phase, the other is developing its designs, and implementation will follow iteratively. The programmes scope cover in broad terms Enterprise IT partner transitions and major changes in operating model and organisation design.
Core required deliverables of this role include:
- Manage as part of a sector-based team all change-related programme deliverables, including the analysis, completion and tracking of change impact assessments using agreed templates and artefacts in the programme context. Change impact analysis against agreed scope and deliverables across multiple concurrent workstreams, using the resulting impact analysis for planning of scope of the adoption of change at the organisational and business process level.
- Gaining and managing a deep understanding of programme inter-dependencies in relation to business change activities, supporting upward reporting into change and transformation forums to enable insights and visibility across a wide range of interested stakeholders.
- Establish the sector business change network, including stakeholder identification, engagement, planning for meetings, workshops and tracking of engagement activities. Owning identified business change and analysis-related actions and deliverables to completion. Ensuring that key stakeholders are engaged, informed and updated, and develop working relationships with them to increase the likelihood of successful change adoption.
- Supports the delivery of high complexity / high priority portfolios of programmes and business change projects from multiple investment sources totalling more than £40m per annum.
- Supports and executes business analysis, manging progress compared with the plan and the production of agreed deliverables.
- Supports the delivery of all business analysis activity and artefacts across the assigned IT programmes and projects. The remit of this role is wide-ranging covering all aspects of IT change.
Core Duties
- Performs the scoping; planning; development; delivery and assessment of specified information and communications systems services.
- Ensures the completion and execution of the IM&T business analysis processes.
- Helps communicate the need and rationale for organisational structure and culture change. Supports organisational change by advocating and lobbying for change. Puts in place mechanisms to reinforce and embed organisational and culture change. Acts as a role model for desired behaviours and sets consistent standards and expectations.
- Engages with and influences senior level stakeholders and project teams through assessment, definition and change management processes, ensuring that the change is managed and to provide agreed levels of adoption and business enablement.
- Supports the delivery objectives for usability and accessibility and to ensure that this is addressed in requirements analysis and solution design.
- Utilisies appropriate business analysis methods, tools, techniques; both predictive (plan-driven) approaches and adaptive (iterative/agile) approaches.
The Team
We work hard and often go the extra mile, but we recognise people’s efforts and that everyone has a life outside of work. We encourage people to speak up if they want to rotate to a new project.
Why BAE Systems
Here you’ll build a career with purpose and limitless possibilities. With lifelong learning and meaningful work – this is a place where you can grow your career with confidence and be empowered to be your best. You’ll be recognised for your contribution and enjoy rewards tailored to what’s most important to you and your family – support for your financial and personal wellbeing, as well as a balanced lifestyle. In an environment embracing sustainable ways of working and with a strong sense of shared purpose, our supportive culture is a place you can feel you belong and proud of the difference you make.
A place where everyone can thrive.
We’re committed to building an inclusive workplace where everyone feels valued and supported. We know that a diversity of backgrounds, perspectives and experiences strengthens our teams and is vital to the work we do.
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.
Life at BAE Systems Digital Intelligence
We are embracing Hybrid Working. This means you and your colleagues may be working in different locations, such as from home, another BAE Systems office or client site, some or all of the time, and work might be going on at different times of the day.
By embracing technology, we can interact, collaborate and create together, even when we’re working remotely from one another. Hybrid Working allows for increased flexibility in when and where we work, helping us to balance our work and personal life more effectively, and enhance well-being.
Diversity and inclusion are integral to the success of BAE Systems Digital Intelligence. We are proud to have an organisational culture where employees with varying perspectives, skills, life experiences and backgrounds – the best and brightest minds – can work together to achieve excellence and realise individual and organisational potential.
Division overview: Functions
At BAE Systems Digital Intelligence, we pride ourselves in being a leader in the cyber defence industry, and the business could not operate without all the dedicated work of our Functions teams. From Finance & Operations through Communications & Marketing, to HR and Site Operations and more, our Functions teams enable our divisions to implement ground-breaking digital transformations and crucial defence software.
As part of Functions, you will be supporting and partnering with our global business from the backline, being a strategic advisor within your specialist area, and ensuring the business runs smoothly and efficiently. We all have a role to play in defending our clients; and this is yours.
