Overview
Are you a seasoned Senior Business Analyst looking for a one-of-a-kind project?
Sopra Steria’s Aerospace Defence and Security sector are currently on the lookout for a Senior Business Analyst with a reasonable breadth of technical project knowledge to work on a secure project within the defence sector. This opportunity is truly unique and puts you in place to work on a mission critical defence project. If you are a well‑rounded BA interested in supporting on enterprise‑level solutions this is for you!
This role would be hybrid, based out of our Hemel Hempstead office with occasional travel to client site and weekly working from home.
Due to the nature of the client and project, we are only able to progress with candidates that hold an active DV clearance.
What you’ll be doing:
* Requirements Elicitation: Leading complex requirement gathering sessions with multiple stakeholders to capture detailed business needs.
* Process Modelling and Improvement: Creating process models of moderate to high complexity to visualise current and future business processes. Identifying inefficiencies in business processes and recommending improvements to enhance productivity and efficiency.
* Documentation: Developing comprehensive and often complex documentation, including business requirements documents (BRDs), functional specifications, and user stories.
* Stakeholder Management: Building and maintaining strong relationships with key stakeholders, ensuring their needs are met and expectations managed.
* Coordinating and leading client meetings and acting as a primary contact for the client for major components of a solution.
What you’ll bring:
* Business Analysis: Expertise in advanced business analysis techniques, methodologies, and best practices.
* Requirements Elicitation and Analysis: Skilled in eliciting, analysing, managing and documenting business needs and complex requirements.
* Process Modelling and Improvement: High degree of proficiency in business process modelling. Good understanding of process improvement and optimisation strategies and methodologies.
* Methodologies: In‑depth working knowledge of delivery principles and methodologies such as agile and waterfall.
* Solution Design: Proficiency in developing comprehensive and scalable business solutions.
* Stakeholder Management: Advanced skills in managing relationships with key stakeholders and ensuring their needs are met.
* Documentation: Highly proficient in creating detailed documentation for the full range of business analysis activities, including business cases, process flows, and functional specifications.
If you’re interested in this role but not sure if your skills and experience are exactly what we’re looking for, please do apply, we’d love to hear from you!
Employment Type: Full‑time, Permanent
Location: Hemel Hempstead (Hybrid)
Security Clearance level: DV
Internal recruiter: Olly Walker
Salary: Up to £55,000
Benefits: 25 days annual leave with the choice to buy additional days, health cash plan, life assurance, and pension.
Although this role is advertised as full‑time, we believe that flexibility at work can promote work/life balance, increase your motivation, reduce stress and improve performance and productivity. We support different ways of working and can offer a range of flexible working arrangements. So, if you’re interested and need to work flexibly, we encourage you to apply and talk to us about what might be possible.
About Sopra Steria
Sopra Steria’s Aerospace, Defence and Security business designs, develops and deploys digital solutions to Central Government clients. The work we do makes a real difference to the client’s goal of National Security, and we operate in a unique and privileged environment. We are given time for professional development activities, and we coach and mentor our colleagues, sharing knowledge and learning from each other. We foster a culture in which employees feel valued and supported and have pride in their work for the customer, delivering outstanding rates of customer satisfaction in the UK’s most complex safety‑and‑security‑critical markets.
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