Business Analyst

£53,761 This role is available full time for 37 hours per week or part time with a minimum coverage of 30 hours. This role is predominantly based in the office, with the opportunity to work from home up to twice a month. Flexible working patterns and compressed working requests are welcome. Location - Milton Keynes

Do you love solving complex problems and turning them into smart, streamlined solutions?

Are you passionate about making technology work better, faster, and more intuitively? You'll be a forward thinking, solution oriented professional who thrives at the intersection of engineering, technology, and organisational change. In this role, you'll play a key part in contextualising, analysing, and designing change across HMGCC and spanning a wide range of business domains and stakeholders.

Every day will bring new challenges and exciting opportunities to make a real impact. You'll transition seamlessly between shaping strategic change and supporting the creation and implementation of the products, services and technology. Whether it's untangling system inefficiencies, aligning strategic capabilities with business needs, or helping shape cutting edge tech, your work will directly influence how we design, build, and deliver products.

You'll work closely with engineers, enterprise architects, product teams and senior leaders, bringing together different perspectives to solve complex challenges that span technology, operations and business strategy.

You'll be in a diverse, fast paced, collaborative environment where analytical thinking, creative problem solving, and a passion for innovation are valued.

More about you

To apply for this role, you will already have:

• Experience working in a role that required analytical thinking, problem solving and collaboration with stakeholders.
• Analytical skills, including requirements validation, root cause analysis, use case development, and process modelling.
• Excellent communication skills, with the ability to build relationships and work effectively with both technical and non technical stakeholders.

It would be beneficial if you also have one of the following (although these are not essential):

• Experience in analysing and guiding strategic business change, translating organisational strategy into actionable insights with value realisation.
• Experience contributing to projects, business improvement initiatives or organisational change activities.
• An understanding of engineering industry standards and best practices.

Your personal skills

You will be someone who:

• Has a keen desire to learn continuously and grow both your technical and interpersonal skills.
• Collaborates naturally with stakeholders and cross functional teams, valuing shared knowledge and joint success, helping teams to move forward with confidence.
• Is committed to excellence, taking ownership to see projects through to a high standard.
• Is curious and enjoys creative problem solving, understands complex problems, and shapes innovative, practical solutions.
• Can prioritise and manage your workload effectively, adapting to changing needs with flexibility and focus.
• Works closely with stakeholders to understand their goals, build relationships, clarify expectations, and ensure successful outcomes.

Putting your skills to use

As part of the Business Analyst team, you'll apply your diverse skill set to help bridge the gap between complex technical challenges and real world solutions. In this role, you will:

• Collaborate with technical roles and stakeholders to gather, analyse, and refine requirements for a variety of technically orientated projects.
• Translate strategic concepts into clear, accessible documentation and insights that make sense to both technical and non technical audiences.
• Design and optimise business processes that enhance efficiency, reduce complexity, and support long term growth.
• Take part in agile ceremonies, ensuring alignment between evolving business needs and technical capabilities throughout the development lifecycle.
• Produce insightful reports and visualisations that empower data driven decisions across stakeholders and business teams.

What we offer

• A positive, collaborative and inclusive work environment.
• 25 days annual leave, rising to 30 after 5 years' service.
• 8 Bank Holiday days off in addition to your annual leave.
• 2 additional days leave (set dates through the year).
• Pension. Our Pension scheme is Alpha. It's competitive.
• Flexible or compressed hours to support you to balance your life with your work.
• Paid overtime or time off in lieu.
• Paid parental and adoption leave and Neonatal policy.
• Affinity groups - whether you are a person with a disability, part of the LGBTQIA+ community and/or from an ethnic minority background, we provide an inclusive environment, support and a variety of networks for everyone.
• Training. This can be anything from a day internal course to a distant learning degree. If it's relevant to your career, we will aim to support you.
• Opportunities for mentoring and coaching.
• Free secure parking and allocated parking for car shares.
• Free onsite gym, open 24 hours a day.
• Bike to work scheme.
• Multi faith Prayer room. This is a quiet contemplation room for staff to use for prayer or reflection.
• 3 days paid leave a year to support a registered charity of your choice.
• Sports & Social Society. Whether its classic cars or baking, golf or crafting, we have a society for you. We offer regular subsidised theatre tickets and on site activities.
• On site nursery (subject to availability).
• New Joiner Loan .

About HMGCC

We are HMGCC, the engineering specialists at the heart of the UK's national security. We work with the national security community, UK government, academia, private sector partners and international allies to bring engineering ingenuity to the national security mission, creating tools and technologies that drive us ahead and help to protect the nation.

We invest in our people, not only with training but also support throughout your career with us; to allow you to reach your full potential at work, as well as enjoy the work/life balance many aspire to.

Inclusion and diversity

HMGCC are committed to providing equal opportunities and encourage applications from candidates of all backgrounds, ethnicities, gender identities, sexual orientations, and those with disabilities or who are neurodiverse.

We are proud to offer applicants who declare a disability or long term health condition the opportunity to apply through the Offer of Interview Scheme. We aim to ensure that a fair and proportionate number of disabled applicants that best meet the minimum essential criteria for this position are offered an interview where practicable.

We offer reasonable reimbursement of travel costs for candidates attending in person interviews or assessments during the recruitment and vetting process. Full details will be provided with your interview or assessment invitation. Reimbursement is discretionary and will only be made in line with the Candidate Expenses Policy, as amended from time to time. Candidates must book their own travel, using the most economical option, and provide original hardcopy receipts for reimbursement.

We offer an interest free loan of up to £2,500, which is to be repaid in equal instalments over a period of 24 months, to support any costs incurred due to your change of employment.