Business Analyst

• Elicit, analyse, and manage business and technical requirements across Concept, Assessment, Design, and In-Service phases, ensuring traceability to architecture outputs
• Translate complex business needs into structured artefacts including architecture blueprints, data models, integration patterns, and policy/standards documentation
• Collaborate with enterprise, solution, and data architects to define Defence-wide reference architectures, integration frameworks, and reusable design patterns
• Support the development and maintenance of integration policy, standards, and governance aligned with MOD best practice
• Facilitate workshops, Communities of Practice, and stakeholder engagements to drive alignment across Defence stakeholders and delivery partners
• Contribute to AI governance principles, data strategy, and horizon scanning activities for emerging technologies
• Elicit, analyse, and model business processes (As-Is and To-Be) using appropriate techniques (e.g. BPMN), ensuring alignment with business objectives, data flows, and system requirements, and identifying opportunities for continuous improvement and optimisation

• Strong written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to articulate complex technical concepts to a non-technical audience
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to break down complex problems into manageable components
• Ability to lead, mentor, and collaborate within high-performing teams
• Strong requirements elicitation techniques (workshops, interviews, stakeholder analysis)
• Excellent stakeholder management skills across technical and non-technical audiences
• Familiarity with Agile, Waterfall, or hybrid delivery methodologies
• Minimum 5 years’ experience operating as Business Analyst across digital, data, or enterprise level environments
• Proven experience as a Business Analyst within Defence, ideally supporting MOD (e.g., DE&S, Defence Digital) programmes, and familiarity of JSP453 [desirable]
• Experience working across system or service lifecycles (e.g. CADMID or equivalent), including requirements management and design phases
• Strong experience translating business needs into technical artefacts such as requirements specifications, process models, and data flows
• Experience working in data, integration, or enterprise architecture environments (e.g. supporting architects, modelling data flows, defining interfaces)
• Demonstrable experience supporting governance, standards, or policy development within complex programmes

familiarity of JSP453

• competitive package
• standard benefits
• UK employees receive free single medical cover
• digital GP services
• enhanced family‑friendly policies
• employee assistance programmes
• reimbursement for professional development
• matched‑funding schemes
• paid volunteering
• charitable contributions