Elicit, analyse, and manage business and technical requirements across Concept, Assessment, Design, and In-Service phases, ensuring traceability to architecture outputs.
Translate complex business needs into structured artefacts including architecture blueprints, data models, integration patterns, and policy/standards documentation.
Collaborate with enterprise, solution, and data architects to define Defence-wide reference architectures, integration frameworks, and reusable design patterns.
Support the development and maintenance of integration policy, standards, and governance aligned with MOD best practice.
Facilitate workshops, Communities of Practice, and stakeholder engagements to drive alignment across Defence stakeholders and delivery partners.
Contribute to AI governance principles, data strategy, and horizon scanning activities for emerging technologies.
Elicit, analyse, and model business processes (As-Is and To-Be) using appropriate techniques (e.g. BPMN), ensuring alignment with business objectives, data flows, and system requirements, and identifying opportunities for continuous improvement and optimisation.

Minimum 5 years’ experience operating as Business Analyst across digital, data, or enterprise level environments
Proven experience as a Business Analyst within Defence, ideally supporting MOD (e.g., DE&S, Defence Digital) programmes, and familiarity of JSP453 [desirable]
Experience working across system or service lifecycles (e.g. CADMID or equivalent), including requirements management and design phases
Strong experience translating business needs into technical artefacts such as requirements specifications, process models, and data flows
Experience working in data, integration, or enterprise architecture environments (e.g. supporting architects, modelling data flows, defining interfaces)
Demonstrable experience supporting governance, standards, or policy development within complex programmes.

Business Analyst

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