Strategic Programme Analyst – Jira & Ops Governance

Companies; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Bonus opportunity

27 days annual leave

Pension & private medical

Learning & development

Hybrid working

Salary bands & levelling

Relocation support

Job summary

ARX is a dual‑use technology company specialising in autonomous systems for defence. We seek a Business Analyst who connects engineering rigour, operational complexity, and governance to design programme infrastructure across UK, EU teams and the central German product organisation.

You will translate field realities into clear requirements, own milestone gates, and drive planning, demonstrations, and evidence‑based sign‑offs in a high‑stakes, regulated environment.

Qualifications

• Proven experience leading complex technical programmes in defence, robotics, autonomy, automotive, or similarly regulated environments.
• Ability to build and implement programme and engineering processes from scratch.
• Strong track record delivering mission‑critical systems with full ownership of scope, schedule, and execution.
• Capable of translating ambiguous inputs into structured, actionable outputs.
• Excellent stakeholder and engineering management with evidence‑driven decisions.

Responsibilities

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

Skills

Programme management

Stakeholder management

Jira workflows

Requirements translation

Communication

Education

Bachelor’s or Master’s in Engineering/CS

Tools

Jira

Job description

ARX is a dual‑use technology company specialising in autonomous systems for defence. We seek a Business Analyst who connects engineering rigour, operational complexity, and governance to design programme infrastructure across UK, EU teams and the central German product organisation.

You will translate field realities into clear requirements, own milestone gates, and drive planning, demonstrations, and evidence‑based sign‑offs in a high‑stakes, regulated environment.