IT Business Analyst

Location: Portsmouth, GB, PO6 3EN; Leicester, GB, LE3 1UF; Warrington, GB, WA3 6YD; Rosyth, Dunfermline, Kirkcaldy, GB, KY11 2YD; Bristol, GB, BS16 1EJ; Devonport, Plymouth, GB, PL1 4SG; Westminster, London, GB, W1U 1QX

Onsite or Hybrid: Hybrid

Compensation: Competitive Salary + Benefits

Role Type: Full time / Permanent

Role ID: SF74844

Shape Digital Change That Supports a Safer, More Secure World

At Babcock, we're working to create a safe and secure world, together. If you join us, you can play your part as an IT Business Analyst at Lakeside, Portsmouth or any of our other main UK locations including London, Warrington, Bristol, Devonport, Leicester, Rosyth.

As IT Business Analyst, you'll work closely with project teams, technical specialists and business stakeholders to understand challenges, identify opportunities and deliver effective technology solutions. This role offers the chance to influence strategic projects, support business change and develop your expertise across a diverse portfolio of programmes and initiatives.

You'll be joining a collaborative and forward-thinking environment where your ideas and insights will directly contribute to successful project outcomes and lasting business improvements.

• Gathering, analysing and documenting business requirements to support project objectives and business outcomes.
• Facilitating stakeholder workshops to identify needs, define solutions and build consensus across teams.
• Modelling business processes and data flows to support continuous improvement and transformation initiatives.
• Supporting requirements management throughout the full project lifecycle, ensuring clarity and traceability.
• Collaborating with project delivery, technical and business teams across multiple concurrent projects to deliver successful solutions.

This role is full time, 37.5 hours per week, Monday to Friday and provides hybrid working arrangements.

• Demonstrable experience working in a Business Analyst role within a complex organisation.
• Strong knowledge of business analysis methods, processes and best practice techniques.
• Experience facilitating requirements gathering workshops and engaging with diverse stakeholders.
• Experience using business analysis tools, techniques and process modelling methodologies.
• Understanding of the Software Development Lifecycle and its application within technology projects.

• Degree-level qualification in Information Technology, Business, Finance, Engineering or a related discipline would be advantageous.
• Professional Business Analysis certifications would be beneficial but are not essential.

The successful candidate must be able to achieve and maintain Standard (BPSS) and Security Check (SC) security clearance for this role.

Many of the positions within our company are subject to national security clearance and Trade Control restrictions. This means that your eligibility for certain roles may be affected by your place of birth, nationality, current or former citizenship, and any residency you hold or have held. Further details are available at United Kingdom Security Vetting: clearance levels - GOV.UK () .

• Matched contribution pension scheme, with life assurance
• Access to a Digital GP, annual health check, and nutritional consultations through Aviva DigiCare+
• Employee shopping savings portal
• Payment of Professional Fees
• Reservists in the armed forces receive 10-days special paid leave
• Holiday Trading is a benefit that allows UK Babcock employees to buy additional leave or to sell up to one working week of annual leave from their annual entitlement. This Window opens February through to March annually.
• 'Be Kind Day' enables employees to take one working day's paid leave a year (or equivalent hours) to undertake volunteering work with their chosen organisation or registered charity

Babcock

We're Babcock - a global FTSE 100 organisation with over 26,000 people working together to make a difference. Here, you'll be part of something bigger. From initial design to final decommissioning, your work will contribute to products and services that are essential to national security and public infrastructure. Together, we're building a future that lasts - not just through the impact we make, but through meaningful careers that respect your work-life balance. We call that lifetime engineering.

Join us and see how far we can go, together. We are a disability confident committed employer. If you have a disability or need any reasonable adjustments during the application and selection stages, please email with the subject header 'Reasonable adjustments requirement'. We're committed to building an inclusive culture where everyone's free to thrive. We are happy to talk about flexible working - please ask about alternative patterns of work at interview.