Business Analyst

Key Responsibilities

• Analyse stakeholder needs and translates them into clear, structured business and technical requirements.
• Capture, document, maintain and manage requirements throughout the engineering lifecycle.
• Establish and maintain requirements baselines, managing change requests and assessing their impact.
• Ensure end-to-end traceability between customer needs, requirements, technical solutions, implementation and verification activities.
• Support requirements decomposition and allocation across relevant engineering domains.
• Work closely with engineering, development and verification teams to ensure requirements remain consistent with technical implementation.
• Produce, review and maintain technical documentation and engineering deliverables.
• Ensure compliance with requirements engineering processes, governance standards and applicable development frameworks.

Essential Skills & Experience

• Active SC security clearance and the ability to work onsite in Reading as required.
• Proven experience in Engineering business analysis, requirements engineering or requirements management.
• Strong experience in requirements elicitation, documentation, traceability, baselining and change control.
• Practical experience in at least one of the following Digital Engineering domains: Modelling and Simulation, Virtual and Physical Testing, Evaluation, Qualification and Certification and Training /hrough Life Support.
• Experience delivering or supporting digital tools within aerospace or defence projects.
• Experience working with MOD programmes, defence prime contractors, system integrators or specialist suppliers.
• Knowledge of aircraft certification, qualification processes and regulatory compliance.
• Experience working within regulated engineering or development environments.
• Familiarity with ArchiMate and/or TOGAF.
• Experience working across international or transnational programmes and stakeholder groups.
• Experience collaborating with multidisciplinary engineering teams across complex aerospace and defence programmes.