Senior Business Analyst

Sopra Steria; Hemel Hempstead; Hybrid; GBP 49,500 - 60,500; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

25 days annual leave

Health cash plan

Life assurance

Pension

Job summary

Sopra Steria in Hemel Hempstead is seeking a Senior Business Analyst to support a secure defence project. The role blends on-site and home working, with occasional client travel and a mandatory DV clearance.

You will lead requirements elicitation, model complex processes and document BRDs, functional specs and user stories. You will manage stakeholders, coordinate meetings and be the main client contact for major components of the solution, delivering enterprise-level business improvements in a

Qualifications

• Expertise in advanced business analysis techniques and practices.
• Skilled in eliciting, analysing and documenting complex requirements.
• High proficiency in modelling business processes and improvements.
• Solid knowledge of agile and waterfall delivery.
• Ability to design comprehensive and scalable business solutions.
• Strong stakeholder management and requirement traceability.
• Expert documentation of BRDs, functional specs and user stories.

Responsibilities

• Lead complex requirements elicitation with multiple stakeholders.
• Model and optimise business processes to boost productivity.
• Create detailed BRDs, functional specs and user stories.
• Manage key stakeholders and align expectations.
• Coordinate client meetings and act as primary contact for major components.

Skills

Business Analysis

Requirements Elicitation & Analysis

Process Modelling & Improvement

Delivery Methodologies

Solution Design

Stakeholder Management

Documentation

Job description

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.

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.

We embrace difference as a source of creativity, innovation and competitive advantage and are striving to become a more diverse organisation. We welcome applications from people with a diverse variety of backgrounds and identities. We are committed to equality of opportunity for all and do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, colour, gender, age, disability, sexual orientation or marital status. We have partnered with Vercida, the UK’s largest diversity and inclusion focused careers site, where all our vacancies are available in an accessible format.

If you require any adjustments to the recruitment process, to enable you to perform to the best of your ability, please let us know when completing your application. We participate in the Disability Confident scheme and are committed to offering an interview to any candidate with a disability, who meets the minimum criteria for the role. If you believe this could apply to you, please let us know when completing your application.