Business Analyst

Raytheon Systems; Gloucester; Hybrid; GBP 40,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job description

Date Posted:
2025-02-17
Country:
United Kingdom
Location:
GBR29: Gloucester, 18b Ley Court, Barnwood Industrial Estate, Barnwood, Gloucester, Gloucestershire, GL4 3RT
Position Role Type:
Unspecified

Business Analyst
Gloucester or Manchester
Must hold current active eDV clearance

Raytheon UK

At Raytheon UK, we take immense pride in being a leader in defence and aerospace technology. As an employer, we are dedicated to fuelling innovation, nurturing talent, and fostering a culture of excellence.

Joining our team means being part of an organisation that shapes the future of national security whilst investing in your growth and personal development. We provide a collaborative environment, abundant opportunities for professional development, and a profound sense of purpose in what we do.

About the role:

Operate within the Engineering function, providing analysis and design skills. Specifically, the role will involve taking ownership of the definition and delivery of user requirements for one or more significant customer projects. It will also involve a significant amount of engagement with project colleagues and end customers to ensure that the resultant deliveries are fit for their intended purpose.

This opportunity will be an office-based role at one of our sites in the Gloucester or Manchester area, with potential opportunity for an element of hybrid working.

Skills and Experience

1. Formal training and demonstrable experience in functional, data or BA roles, modelling business processes, end-states and solution implementations.
2. Suitable tooling experience, e.g. DOORS, Atlassian suite.
3. Sound understanding of the fundamentals of iterative and time-boxed developments - including understanding the value of this method in relation / comparison to waterfall processes and methodologies.
4. Strong practical experience of the fundamentals of software development processes and procedures.
5. Strong delivery ethos, backed up by evidence.
6. Excellent communication and mentoring skills. The ability to converse on both technical and non-technical levels.
7. A high level of business acumen and ability to both quickly acquire a deep understanding of customer needs and how these may be best satisfied.

Responsibilities

1. Assess, plan, manage and deliver user requirements under Agile frameworks.
2. Perform feasibility analysis, scope projects, and work with the project management team to prioritise deliverables and negotiate on product functionalities.
3. Elicit requirements using a variety of techniques, including interviews, document analysis, requirements workshops, surveys, site visits, business process descriptions, use cases, scenarios, business analysis, task and workflow analysis.
4. Critically evaluate information gathered from multiple sources, reconcile conflicts, decompose high-level information into details, abstract up from low-level information to a general understanding, and distinguish user requests from the underlying true needs.
5. Proactively communicate and collaborate with external and internal customers to assess information needs and functional requirements and document these in suitable artefacts, e.g. functional requirements, Use Cases, GUI, Screen and Interface designs.
6. Display strong analytical and product management skills to interpret customer business needs and translate them into application and operational requirements.
7. Serve as the conduit between the customer community and project delivery team.
8. Collaborate with developers and subject matter experts to establish the technical vision and analyse trade-offs between usability and performance needs.
9. Participate actively in Integration Testing and User Acceptance Testing (UAT) and Functionality Testing.

Benefits and Work Culture

Benefits

1. Competitive salaries.
2. 25 days holiday + statutory public holidays, plus opportunity to buy and sell up to 5 days (37hr)
3. Contributory Pension Scheme (up to 10.5% company contribution)
4. Company bonus scheme (discretionary)
5. 6 times salary 'Life Assurance' with pension.
6. Flexible Benefits scheme with extensive salary sacrifice schemes, including Health Cashplan, Dental, and Cycle to Work amongst others.
7. Enhanced sick pay.
8. Enhanced family friendly policies including enhanced maternity, paternity & shared parental leave.
9. Car / Car allowance (dependant on grade/ role)
10. Private Medical Insurance (dependant on grade)

Work Culture

1. 37hr working week, although hours may vary depending on role, job requirement or site-specific arrangements.
2. Early 1.30pm finish Friday, start your weekend early!
3. Remote, hybrid and site based working opportunities, dependant on your needs and the requirements of the role.
4. A grownup flexible working culture that is output, not time spent at desk, focussed.
5. Up to 5 paid days volunteering each year.

RTX
Raytheon UK is a landed company and part of the wider RTX organisation. Headquartered in Arlington, Virginia, USA, but with over 180,000 employees globally across every continent, RTX provides advanced systems and services for commercial, military and government customers worldwide and comprises three industry-leading businesses - Collins Aerospace Systems, Pratt & Whitney, and Raytheon.

Supporting over 35,000 jobs across 13 UK sites, RTX is helping to drive prosperity. Each year our work contributes over £2.7bn to the UK economy and offers a wealth of opportunities to 4,000 suppliers across England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.

RTX adheres to the principles of equal employment. All qualified applications will be given careful consideration without regard to ethnicity, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation or identity, national origin, age, disability, protected veteran status or any other characteristic protected by law.