Technical Business Analyst

The Opportunity

We are seeking an experienced Technical Business Analyst to join a Digital Engineering - Software Engineering function, supporting complex engineering and software development programmes within the Aerospace and Defence sector.

This is an excellent opportunity for a Technical Business Analyst with a strong background in requirements engineering and systems engineering, ideally gained through working on aircraft software or defence platform software projects.

The successful candidate will play a key role in defining, analysing and managing system and software requirements throughout the engineering life cycle, ensuring full traceability from stakeholder requirements through to implementation and verification.

Key Responsibilities

• Capture, analyse, document and maintain system and software requirements.
• Manage requirements baselines and change requests.
• Maintain end-to-end requirements traceability across engineering life cycle artefacts.
• Support requirements decomposition and allocation activities.
• Ensure alignment between stakeholder needs and technical implementation.
• Manage requirements throughout the engineering life cycle.
• Conduct impact assessments for proposed requirements changes.
• Work closely with software development, systems engineering and verification teams.
• Participate in technical reviews, validation activities and requirements audits.
• Ensure compliance with requirements engineering processes and standards.

Essential Experience & Skills

• Proven experience as a Technical Business Analyst within Aerospace, Defence or a similar engineering environment.
• Specific experience working on aircraft software or defence platform software projects.
• Strong background in Requirements Engineering and Systems Engineering.
• Experience in requirements elicitation, documentation and management.
• Strong understanding of requirements traceability and change control.
• Experience using requirements management tools.
• Understanding of systems engineering principles.
• Excellent analytical, communication and stakeholder management skills.
• Bachelor's degree in Aerospace Engineering, Computer Science, Systems Engineering or a related discipline.

Desirable Experience

• Experience working in regulated development environments.
• Knowledge of Model-Based Engineering.
• Familiarity with verification and validation processes.
• Experience with ArchiMate and/or TOGAF.
• Existing DV clearance would be advantageous.

Mandatory Security Requirements

• Candidates must meet both of the following criteria:
• Hold valid, current Security Check (SC) Clearance.
• Hold a valid British passport.