About the Role
As a Business Analyst, you’ll play a key role in shaping and delivering impactful solutions within agile software delivery teams. You will turn complex challenges into clear, actionable insights that drive meaningful change, guiding decision-making, defining requirements, and ensuring solutions meet user needs and strategic objectives.
Responsibilities
- Acting as the bridge between stakeholders and delivery teams to ensure solutions meet business and user needs
- Eliciting, analysing and documenting business and technical requirements in agile delivery environments
- Supporting Product Owners to prioritise and maintain well-defined backlogs aligned to project goals
- Facilitating workshops, discussions and stakeholder engagement to clarify complex problems and drive decisions
- Applying systems thinking to understand wider organisational impacts and improve processes, services and technology
- Evaluating delivered solutions to ensure they meet desired outcomes and recommending enhancements where required
Requirements
- Experience working within agile software delivery teams, including writing and managing user stories or tickets
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with the ability to work in complex, ambiguous environments
- Ability to engage, influence and communicate effectively with a wide range of stakeholders
- Experience using tools such as Jira, Confluence or GitLab
- Knowledge or experience within Defence, Security or highly regulated environments is beneficial
- A proactive, organised approach with strong attention to detail
- Must be a UK national for clearance type
- Must be able to gain and maintain the appropriate UK Government security clearance (SC)
Skills
- User stories
- Jira
- Confluence
- GitLab
- Systems thinking
- Analytical skills
- Problem-solving skills
- Communication skills
- Stakeholder engagement
Location
- UK
Work Type
- Full-time
- Hybrid
Experience Level
- Mid-level
Benefits
- Flexible working options, including a compressed fortnight
- Private healthcare
- Cash health plan
- Holiday buy and sell scheme
- Career development and training programmes
- Performance-related bonuses
About the Company
- At Northrop Grumman UK, you are part of a team driving innovation where it matters most – solving tomorrow’s challenges and shaping the technology solutions of the future.
- We contribute to building a more secure and connected world. Your work will have real-world impact in protecting people, infrastructure and national security.
- We value diverse perspectives and foster an inclusive environment where everyone can contribute, grow and succeed.
- We offer the support, tools and opportunities to help you shape your future.
Equal Opportunity
- Northrop Grumman is committed to hiring and retaining a diverse workforce, and encourages individuals from all backgrounds and all abilities to apply and consider becoming a part of our diverse and inclusive workforce.
