Senior Business Analyst

Sopra Steria; Hemel Hempstead; Hybrid; GBP 65,000 - 85,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

25 days annual leave

Health cash plan

Life assurance

Pension

Job summary

Sopra Steria is seeking a Senior Business Analyst to work on a secure defence project from the Hemel Hempstead office with hybrid travel to client sites and occasional WFH. Active DV clearance is required.

You will lead complex requirement elicitation, model processes, document BRDs and specifications, and manage stakeholder relationships. The role emphasises agile and waterfall delivery, with responsibilities spanning from requirements to solution design and client coordination.

Qualifications

• Expert in advanced business analysis techniques, methodologies, and best practices.
• Skilled in eliciting, analysing, managing and documenting business needs and complex requirements.
• High proficiency in business process modelling and process improvement strategies.
• Knowledge of delivery methodologies such as Agile and Waterfall.
• Ability to design scalable business solutions.
• Strong stakeholder management and client liaison skills.

Responsibilities

• Lead complex requirement gathering sessions with multiple stakeholders.
• Create process models to visualise current and future processes.
• Develop BRDs, functional specifications, and user stories.
• Manage relationships with key stakeholders and ensure their needs are met.
• Coordinate and lead client meetings; act as primary contact for major components of a solution.

Skills

Elicitation

Process Modelling

Documentation

Stakeholder Management

Agile

Waterfall

Solution Design

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
Salary: Competitive depending on experience
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 improves 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.

Loved reading about this job and want to know more about us?

Sopra Steria's Aerospace, Defence and Security business designs, develops and deploys digital solutions to Central Government clients. The work we do makes a real difference to the client's goal of National Security, and we operate in a unique and privileged environment. We are given time for professional development activities, and we coach and mentor our colleagues, sharing knowledge and learning from each other. We foster a culture in which employees feel valued and supported and have pride in their work for the customer, delivering outstanding rates of customer satisfaction in the UK's most complex safety- and security-critical markets.

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.
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.