Job Title: Senior Business Analyst
Location: UK, Hybrid
Compensation: Competitive Salary + Benefits
Role Type: Full time / Permanent
Role ID: SF
Shape meaningful change on programmes that matter
At Babcock, we’re working to create a safe and secure world, together.
If you join us, you can play your part as a Senior Business Analyst at one of our Babcock Hubs with Radar Road, near Bristol, Gloucestershire as primary hub.
From defence and aerospace to engineering and infrastructure, Babcock supports projects that protect lives, strengthen national security and keep vital services running. Joining us means working on complex, high‑impact programmes where your expertise delivers real value today and for generations to come.
The role
As a Senior Business Analyst, you’ll work at the heart of business and technology change across Babcock. Partnering with programmes, projects and stakeholders, you’ll analyse business needs, translate them into clear requirements, and help shape and implement effective IT and business solutions.
This is a highly visible role offering the opportunity to influence major initiatives, work across multiple sectors and develop your career in a dynamic, complex organisation. You’ll gain exposure to a wide portfolio of work while applying your analytical expertise to challenges that genuinely matter to society.
Day-to-day, you’ll be required to:
1. Eliciting and analysing business requirements, ensuring alignment to project objectives and benefits
2. Facilitating workshops to capture, validate and prioritise requirements with stakeholders
3. Managing requirements throughout the project lifecycle, supporting traceability and outcomes
4. Modelling and reviewing complex business processes and data to support solution design
5. Working across multiple concurrent projects, collaborating with programmes, functions and technical teams
This role is full time, 37.5 hours per week and provides hybrid working arrangements with days onsite and days working from home.
Essential experience of the Senior Business Analyst
6. Proven experience working as an IT Business Analyst
7. Strong understanding of business process analysis and structured analysis techniques
8. Experience facilitating requirements and process workshops
9. Knowledge of the software development lifecycle and IT delivery approaches
10. Experience working within traditional waterfall delivery environments
Qualifications for the Senior Business Analyst
We value difference and don’t have a fixed idea when it comes to background or education, provided you can show the required level of experience and/or willingness to learn then we would like to hear from you.
Security Clearance
The successful candidate must be able to achieve and maintain Standard (BPSS) / Security Check (SC) security clearance for this role.
Many of the positions within our company are subject to national security clearance and Trade Control restrictions. This means that your eligibility for certain roles may be affected by your place of birth, nationality, current or former citizenship, and any residency you hold or have held. Further details are available at Babcock
We’re Babcock — a global FTSE organisation with over 26, people working together to make a difference.
Here, you’ll be part of something bigger. From initial design to final decommissioning, your work will contribute to products and services that are essential to national security and public infrastructure. Together, we’re building a future that lasts — not just through the impact we make, but through meaningful careers that respect your work-life balance.
We call that lifetime engineering.
Join us and see how far we can go, together.
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