Job Title: Business Analyst
Clearance Required: SC Security Clearance or DV Clearance
Duration: 6 months initial (Duration is very likely to extend)
Location: Reading with 2 days/week in office, rest remote.
IR35 Status: Inside IR35
Job Description
Aerospace and Defence Experience - demonstrable background delivering architecture within MOD, Defence Digital, or UK aerospace environments.
This role will be based in Reading with minimum percentage of time onsite is 20-50 %
Job Purpose
The Digital Engineering Business Analyst is responsible for eliciting, analysing, and translating aerospace engineering needs into clear, traceable, and certifiable requirements for digital solution definition.
Acting as the primary liaison between the Engineering Department and digital delivery teams, the role ensures that technical, safety, and operational needs are accurately captured, structured, and aligned with digital solution capabilities, regulatory standards.
Key Accountabilities and Objectives
- Act as the primary interface between Engineering and Digital Delivery teams.
- Elicit, analyse, and prioritise engineering needs and opportunities for digital improvement.
- Translate engineering needs into digital capabilities, use cases, solution objectives, and acceptance criteria.
- Ensure alignment between digital solutions, engineering processes, technical objectives, safety considerations, and regulatory expectations.
- Facilitate stakeholder workshops, reviews, and decision-making activities.
- Maintain traceability between engineering needs, digital capabilities, solution features, validation activities, and delivered outcomes.
- Support the definition and prioritisation of digital engineering roadmaps and delivery backlogs.
- Identify dependencies, risks, constraints, gaps, and impacts associated with proposed digital solutions.
- Support solution definition, tool evaluation, process modelling, data analysis, and interface definition.
- Drive continuous improvement in engineering processes, digital tools, data quality, automation, and standardisation.
- Identify and manage dependencies, assumptions, risks, exclusions, and opportunities (DAREO).
- Coordinate activities across multiple teams and stakeholders.
Governance
Support the implementation and continuous improvement of digital engineering governance processes, policies, standards, and guidance.
Ensure that digital engineering needs, capabilities, solutions, data, and changes are appropriately documented, reviewed, approved, and traceable.
Identify and escalate governance gaps, risks, compliance issues, and unresolved decisions.
Contribute to governance reviews, audits, assurance activities, and the preparation of objective evidence
Skills and Experience: Essential
Essential
- Experience using digital engineering, workflow, collaboration, or process-modelling tools.
- Experience analysing engineering needs, processes, data flows, and digital solutions.
- Stakeholder management and communication skills
- Practical experience evaluating, integrating, or deploying digital engineering solutions
- Ability to work effectively with cross-functional teams
- Ability to translate stakeholder needs into digital capabilities, use cases, and acceptance criteria.