Senior business analyst

Job Title: Senior Business Analyst

Location: UK, Hybrid

Compensation: Competitive Salary + Benefits

Role Type: Full time / Permanent

Role ID: SF73658

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 any of our main UK Babcock Hubs.

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 will be responsible for:

• Eliciting and analysing business requirements, ensuring alignment to project objectives and benefits
• Facilitating workshops to capture, validate and prioritise requirements with stakeholders
• Managing requirements throughout the project lifecycle, supporting traceability and outcomes
• Modelling and reviewing complex business processes and data to support solution design
• 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

• Proven experience working as an IT Business Analyst
• Strong understanding of business process analysis and structured analysis techniques
• Experience facilitating requirements and process workshops
• Knowledge of the software development lifecycle and IT delivery approaches
• 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 United Kingdom Security Vetting: clearance levels - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk).

What we offer

• Generous holiday allowance
• Matched contribution pension scheme, with life assurance
• Access to a Digital GP, annual health checks and nutritional consultations through Aviva DigiCare+
• Employee share scheme
• Employee shopping savings portal
• Payment of professional fees
• Reservists receive 10 days’ special paid leave
• Holiday Trading – buy or sell annual leave
• Be Kind Day – one paid day per year for volunteering
• Flexible working options to support work‑life balance
• A dynamic, supportive and inclusive working environment

Babcock

We’re Babcock — a global FTSE 100 organisation with over 26,000 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.

We are a disability confident committed employer. If you have a disability or need any reasonable adjustments during the application and selection stages, please email careers@babcockinternational.com with the subject header “Reasonable adjustments requirement”. We’re committed to building an inclusive culture where everyone’s free to thrive. We are happy to talk about flexible working – please ask about alternative patterns of work at interview.

Closing date

18/06/2026