Join BAE Systems Digital Intelligence as a Business Analyst in Canberra, Australia. In this consulting role, you will help customers scope, design, and roll out capabilities across ICT and operational technology systems, requiring an active PV clearance.
Requirements
Previous Business Analysis experience, including requirements authoring, stakeholder engagement, and process definition
Excellent written and verbal communication skills with the ability to present complex information to technical and non-technical audiences
Must hold a PV clearance (NV2 may be considered if holding an OSA)
Willingness to travel to client sites for project work
No specific degree is explicitly required by the posting
Skills & Responsibilities
Requirements authoring: Elicit and author business requirements, system requirements, and business processes for capability changes.
Stakeholder management: Identify and engage stakeholders, facilitate scoping workshops, and obtain buy-in for improvement plans.
Collaboration: Work alongside engineering teams to ensure they receive necessary information from business stakeholders.
Business development: Support business development teams by contributing to consulting elements of client responses.
Potential transition routes: People from systems analyst or project management roles may bring strong stakeholder engagement and requirements-gathering skills, alongside meeting mandatory security clearance requirements.
Job description
BAE Systems Digital Intelligence is home to 4,500 digital, cyber and intelligence experts. We work collaboratively across 10 countries to collect, connect and understand complex data, so that governments, nation states, armed forces and commercial businesses can unlock digital advantage in the most demanding environments.
Business Analyst
About us
We are seeking talented people to help our customers scope, design and roll out capabilities and grow our existing team. This role will be focused on supporting our customers mission, protecting themselves and others from security risks and implementing new capabilities across a variety of ICT and operational technology (OT) systems. You have BA experience and appreciate what it means to work in a flexible Consulting team, where the tasks from day to day vary according to the differing shape and status of projects and customer needs. You are passionate about enabling customers to achieve their goals and working with your team to get things done.
Must hold a PV clearance. NV2 may be considered if hold an OSA
About the role
You will be responsible for:
Being self starting, capable of working solo BA capacity within a multidisciplinary team.
Identification and documentation of stakeholders and their needs and drivers
Facilitating scoping and business priority setting for small, medium or large capability changes, engaging stakeholders as required
Eliciting and authoring scoping document business requirements, system requirements and business processes.
Capture and evaluation of both ‘pain points’ and ideas for improvement, prioritising possible improvements and obtaining buy-in for an improvement plan
Taking an active role in stakeholder workshops
Supporting business development teams as needed, contributing to consulting elements of client responses
Authoring relevant business change-related materials to support rollout of new capabilities
Research into potential tools clients may need to satisfy requirement
Working with engineering teams to ensure they get the information they need from business stakeholders
Highlighting potential opportunities for business growth
Contributing to the development of others and the internal Consulting practice
Maintaining an awareness of the various BAE Systems capabilities
Functional requirements
Must hold a PV clearance. NV2 may be considered if hold an OSA
Willingness to travel to client sites for project work
Key skills and experience
Previous Business Analysis experience including:
Authoring of different levels of requirements
Engaging with stakeholders of different types, seniority etc
Running meetings/workshops to elicit information, demonstrate systems etc
Defining as-is and to-be processes
Creation of various artefacts to communicate concepts that are well structured, appropriate for the audience and tell the story in a concise and logical way
Working with engineering teams as part of coherent project delivery
Ideally some experience operating in a lead BA capacity
Communicates fluently, orally and in writing, and can present complex information to both technical and non-technical audiences when engaging with colleagues or users/customers
Has attention to detail, is proactive and organised
Is flexible, willing to get involved in a variety of tasks with different people across different projects or internal tasks
Demonstrable stakeholder management and engagement experience
Takes responsibility for delivering outputs, including work packages and small projects
Shares knowledge and expertise with others
Is able to respond to setbacks in an agile and resilient manner
Maintains an awareness of developing practices and their application and takes responsibility for driving own development
Why BAE Systems?
This is a place where you’ll be able to make a real difference. You’ll be part of an inclusive culture that values diversity of thought, rewards integrity, and merit, and where you’ll be empowered to fulfil your potential. We welcome people from all backgrounds and want to make sure that our recruitment processes are as inclusive as possible. If you have a disability or health condition (for example dyslexia, autism, an anxiety disorder etc.) that may affect your performance in certain assessment types, please speak to your recruiter about potential reasonable adjustments.
Please be aware that many roles at BAE Systems are subject to both security and export control restrictions. These restrictions mean that factors such as your nationality, any nationalities you may have previously held, and your place of birth can restrict the roles you are eligible to perform within the organisation.
