Principal Business Analyst

Job Description

Job Title: Principal Business Analyst

Location: Scotstoun. We offer a range of hybrid and flexible working arrangements – please speak to your recruiter about the options for this particular role

Salary: Up to £63,000 Dependent on skills and experience

What you’ll be doing:

• Lead business analysis across transformation programmes, ensuring clear, unambiguous requirements and alignment between business and technical stakeholders
• Provide strategic insight, recommendations and thought leadership to support decision making, solution design and project governance
• Collaborate with architects to ensure solutions fully reflect validated business needs and deliver intended benefits
• Plan, estimate and manage analysis activities, ensuring timely, high quality outputs across multiple projects
• Support senior stakeholders with business case development and ensure alignment with organisational strategy
• Manage and develop the Business Analyst team, setting goals, reviewing performance, identifying training needs and fostering career growth
• Prioritise, allocate and balance workloads effectively, supporting wellbeing and team efficiency, including recruitment of new team members

Your skills and experiences:

Essential:

• Extensive experience in business analysis across complex projects and programmes
• Demonstrable experience managing, coaching and leading Business Analysts
• Considerable stakeholder engagement skills, including senior leadership interaction
• Skilled in requirements engineering, business case development and process analysis
• Ability to bridge business and technical perspectives effectively
• Experience working within structured governance or architectural frameworks

Desirable:

• Experience in IM&T, Engineering, Manufacturing, or other large, complex environments
• Knowledge of enterprise architecture approaches
• Professional BA qualifications (BCS, IIBA etc)

Benefits:

As well as a competitive pension scheme, BAE Systems also offers employee share plans, an extensive range of flexible discounted health, wellbeing and lifestyle benefits, including a green car scheme, private health plans and shopping discounts – you may also be eligible for an annual incentive.

The IM&T Business Analyst Team

Would you like to contribute to the future of IT within complex warships? We are seeking an experienced Principal Business Analyst to lead Business Analysis across major business and technical transformation programmes.

You will act as a senior change leader, working with stakeholders across the enterprise to shape, define and deliver solutions that create measurable value.

This role includes leadership of the Business Analyst team, responsibility for analytical quality and standards, and acting as a trusted interface between business and technical communities. You will also support the IM&T Chief Architect in defining the strategic direction of the Business Analysis function.

This role will provide you with the opportunity to work on the latest technologies which support the Royal Navy through involvement in National and International programmes.

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. All applicants must as a minimum achieve Baseline Personnel Security Standard. Many roles also require higher levels of National Security Vetting where applicants must typically have 5 to 10 years of continuous residency in the UK depending on the vetting level required for the role, to allow for meaningful security vetting checks.

Closing Date: 13th February 2026. Interviews W/C 23rd February 2026

We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications for the role. Therefore, if you are interested, please submit your application as early as possible.

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