Principal Business Analyst

Requisition : R

• Category: Program Management

• Location: Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, United Kingdom

• Clearance Type: Highest Level of Government Clearance

• Telecommute: Yes-May consider hybrid teleworking for this position

• Travel Required: Yes, 10% of the Time

• Positions Available: 1

Salary: £70,300 - £105,500

Define Possible at Northrop Grumman UK

At Northrop Grumman UK, our mission is to solve the most complex challenges by shaping the technology and solutions of tomorrow. We call it Defining Possible.

This mind-set goes beyond our customer solutions; it’s the foundation for your career development and the impact we have within the community. So, what’s your possible?

Opportunity:

This is more than just a job; it’s a mission.

Our UK Cyber & Intelligence business combines modern software development approaches with a rich heritage and experience in the Defence and security sectors. Our customers have complex and sensitive data and information requirements requiring a mission partner who quickly understands the context, delivering and sustaining a portfolio of challenging technology projects at scale and pace, supporting them through an ambitious digital transformation programme.

Role responsibilities:

Strategy and governance

• Ensures strategic business benefits are articulated and used to inform organisational change

• Works with a wide range of stakeholders to ascertain the real business problems and drivers behind their expressed needs for change;

• Contributes to the development of business strategy and/or technology strategy for an organisation or function

• Develops suitable target operating models for a business or function based on business strategy and drivers

• Prepares business cases which define potential benefits, options for achieving these benefits through development of new or changed processes, and associated business risks

• Ensures governance and oversight of the change aligns with the desired business outcomes and user needs

Business analysis

• Provides objective, evidence-based analysis and recommendations for action that helps clients achieve their desired outcomes

• Defines an appropriate quantitative or qualitative approach to identifying, gathering and analysing relevant information

• Uses methodological techniques to investigate, review and analyse the parts of an organisation related to the solution being delivered, in terms of people, processes, organisation and technology;

• Produces and communicates abstract, distilled representations of real world situations to inform decision making, tailoring the communication style to the requirements of the audience.

• Embeds “systems thinking” into their approach

• Collaborates with stakeholders at all levels, in order to understand their worldviews, collect relevant data and develop hypotheses

• Undertakes investigation, evaluation, interpretation and classification of information from outside the immediate project delivery as necessary, to define and clarify relationships in the broader system of interest

• Provides quality assurance for the business analysis of others and makes recommendations for improvements

Requirements management

• Ensures business needs are documented and used to prioritise delivery of the initiative.

• Works with customer stakeholders to elicit, capture and elaborate their requirements, including business and technical requirements;

• Documents requirements to a level that enables effective delivery of required changes without prescribing solutions;

• Identifies and escalates conflicting requirements;

• Evaluates proposed delivery outputs against business needs and recommends appropriate alternatives and/or enhancements to current IT and business systems and processes where required

• Ensures that the strategic goals of the organisation are captured and used to inform decision making

• Builds strong relationships with the user community and understands the drivers behind their expressed requirements

• Capable of identifying and managing conflicting priorities within the delivery environment

• Acts as a proxy product owner where necessary to plan and prioritise work

• Ensures traceability from the strategic drivers of the organisation to delivery of solutions

• Identifies gaps in…