IT Business Analyst

Job Title:

IT Business Analyst

Location :
Preston. We offer a range of hybrid and flexible working arrangements – please  speak  to your recruiter about the options for this particular role

Salary:  Circa £45,000 depending on skills and experience

What you’ll be doing :

Planning and  leading  workshops with stakeholders of all levels to elicit, document and  analyse  requirements and scoping the business need

Critical success factors, business requirements and detailed solution/system requirements

Managing  and tracing requirements throughout the project lifecycle

Business process capture and  analysis

Identifying the impacts of change, verifying readiness, and preparing stakeholders to embed change

Delivery and  management  of the communications plan

Capturing benefit profiles and their realisation

Your skills and experiences:

Essential:

Good experience eliciting and documenting requirements for technical projects, including  leading  workshops for requirements elicitation

Demonstrable evidence  analysing  and documenting business processes

Demonstrable evidence to effectively supporting delivery of Business Change  Management  tasks on  complex  projects

Experience working with, and influencing, senior stakeholders

Desirable:

Qualifications such as BCS BA Diploma, IIBA, Agile BA or APMG Change  Management

Benefits:

As well as a  competitive  pension scheme, BAE Systems also offers employee share plans, an extensive range of flexible discounted health, wellbeing and lifestyle benefits, including a green car scheme, private health plans and shopping discounts – you may also be eligible for an annual incentive.

The Business Analyst team:

We are a team of experienced Business Analyst professionals who deliver an end-to-end capability by engaging early in the process to establish the needs of our customers, elicit their requirements, understand the impact of the change, and deliver tangible benefits. We provide a wide range of service offerings underpinned by industry recognised tools and techniques.

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. All  applicants   must  as a minimum achieve Baseline Personnel Security Standard.

Many roles also require higher levels of National Security Vetting where  applicants   must  typically have 5 to 10 years of continuous residency in the UK depending on the vetting level required for  the role , to allow for meaningful security vetting checks.

Closing Date:  9th February 2026

We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications for  the role . Therefore, if you are interested, please submit your application as early as possible.

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