Lead Business Analyst

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.

Lead Business Analyst

About us

We are seeking talented people to help our customers scope, design and roll out capabilities and grow our existing team. This role will be focused on leading consulting engagements that support our customers mission, protecting themselves and others from security risks and implementing new capabilities across a variety of ICT and operational technology (OT) systems.

You have a depth of BA experience, are used to leading consulting engagements and reviewing the output of other business analysts. You appreciate what it means to work in a flexible Consulting team, where the tasks from day to day vary according to the differing shape and status of projects and customer needs. You are passionate about enabling customers to achieve their goals and working with your team to get things done. 

About the role

You will be responsible for:

• Self starting, capable of working solo in a BA capacity, effectively leading the engagements with clients.


• Organising other consultants within a team.


• Identification and documentation of stakeholders and their needs and drivers


• Facilitating scoping and business priority setting for small, medium or large capability changes, engaging stakeholders as required


• Eliciting and authoring scoping document business requirements, system requirements and business processes.


• Capture and evaluation of both ‘pain points’ and ideas for improvement, prioritising possible improvements and obtaining buy-in for an improvement plan


• Taking an active role in stakeholder workshops


• Supporting business development teams as needed, contributing to consulting elements of client responses


• Authoring relevant business change-related materials to support rollout of new capabilities


• Research into potential tools clients may need to satisfy requirement


• Working with engineering teams to ensure they get the information they need from business stakeholders


• Highlighting potential opportunities for business growth


• Contributing to the development of others and the internal Consulting practice


• Maintaining an awareness of the various BAE Systems capabilities

Functional requirements

• Must hold NV2 clearance and be willing to undertake a PV clearance


• Willingness to travel to client sites for project work

Key skills and experience

• Previous Business Analysis experience including:




• Undertaking lead BA responsibilities


• Authoring of different levels of requirements


• Engaging with stakeholders of different types, seniority etc


• Running meetings/workshops to elicit information, demonstrate systems etc


• Defining as-is and to-be processes


• Creation of various artefacts to communicate concepts that are well structured, appropriate for the audience and tell the story in a concise and logical way


• Working with engineering teams as part of coherent project delivery




• Able to organise and manage own workload and coordinate that of others


• Communicates fluently, orally and in writing, and can present complex information to both technical and non-technical audiences when engaging with colleagues or users/customers


• Has attention to detail, is proactive and organised


• Is flexible, willing to get involved in a variety of tasks with different people across different projects or internal tasks


• Demonstrable stakeholder management and engagement experience 


• Takes responsibility for delivering outputs, including work packages and small projects


• Shares knowledge and expertise with others


• Is able to respond to setbacks in an agile and resilient manner


• Maintains an awareness of developing practices and their application and takes responsibility for driving own development

Why BAE Systems?

This is a place where you’ll be able to make a real difference. You’ll be part of an inclusive culture that values diversity of thought, rewards integrity, and merit, and where you’ll be empowered to fulfil your potential. We welcome people from all backgrounds and want to make sure that our recruitment processes are as inclusive as possible. If you have a disability or health condition (for example dyslexia, autism, an anxiety disorder etc.) that may affect your performance in certain assessment types, please speak to your recruiter about potential reasonable adjustments.

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.