Global Defence Programme Analyst & Jira Lead

Companies; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Bonus opportunity

Hybrid working setup

Pension and private medical

Job summary

ARX is seeking a Business Analyst who can bridge engineering discipline, operations complexity, and governance. The role designs programme infrastructure across engineering and field stakeholders in the UK, Germany, and Ukraine, ensuring field realities inform central planning and that commitments are realistic and deliverable.

You will implement a Jira-based operating model, define gates for milestones, and own readiness criteria.

Qualifications

• Leading complex technical programmes in regulated environments.
• Translating operational inputs into actionable outputs.
• Designing and implementing programme and engineering processes from scratch.
• Enforcing readiness criteria and evidence-based sign-off.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement programme processes across engineering, product, and operations teams.
• Establish Jira-based operating model with workflows and definitions of done.
• Own gates and readiness criteria for milestones, releases, and deployments.
• Drive planning, tracking and execution of exercises and demonstrations.
• Manage schedules, dependencies, risks, and critical paths across workstreams.
• Translate inputs into structured requirements with traceability.
• Govern feedback and change processes between local integration and central product teams.

Skills

Programme management

Stakeholder management

Jira workflows

Requirements tracing

Ambiguity to clarity

Delivery ownership

Engineering processes

Travel within EU

Education

Bachelor's or Master's in Engineering/CS

Tools

Jira

Job description

ARX is seeking a Business Analyst who can bridge engineering discipline, operations complexity, and governance. The role designs programme infrastructure across engineering and field stakeholders in the UK, Germany, and Ukraine, ensuring field realities inform central planning and that commitments are realistic and deliverable.

You will implement a Jira-based operating model, define gates for milestones, and own readiness criteria.