Business Analyst

Job Title: Business Analyst
Location: Andover, Hampshire + Hybrid Working Arrangements 
Compensation: Competitive + Benefits
Role Type: Full time / Permanent 
Role ID: SF

At Babcock we’re working to create a safe and secure world, together, and if you join us, you can play your part as a Business Analyst at our Andover site.

The role
As a Business Analyst, you’ll have a role that’s out of the ordinary. You’ll be an instrumental part in making the business work as efficiently and effectively as possible. 

Day to day, you’ll ensure data can be utilised to provide actionable insights for operational needs and evidence-based decision support. You will be responsible for capturing requirements to understand business problems and how they can be applied in Foundry to help our business and customers make better use of their data to improve service. You’ll also:

• Work with business and insight team analysts to understand the critical questions they need to answer and identify their biggest problems
• Working with Data Engineers to ensure that relevant pipelines are established
• Collaborate with Technical and non-technical subject matter experts (SMEs) through design and build cycles
• Be able to document and demonstrate our products to a range of audiences including technical and non-technical SME’s
• Lead training sessions to ensure that the product is meeting user requirements
• Support our business and customer in process and strategy change

This role full time and will be based at Andover on site with hybrid working from home arrangements. 

Agile working may be available to employees in some instances, applying the principles of fairness and consistency whilst ensuring that the overriding business needs can be appropriately met. We are happy to consider flexible, blended working, including part-time, condensed hours, and job sharing. Please ask about alternative patterns of work at interview.

Essential experience of the Business Analyst:
• Experience in a relevant field such as: Data Analyst, Data Engineer, Business Analyst, Data Scientist, Software Developer etc
• Experience with programming, scripting or statistical packages (e.g. Python, R, Matlab, SQL) 
• Be confident and capable to work in the customer environment, across teams and engaging with internal and external stakeholders.
• Effective organisation and time management skills
• Self-motivated, enthusiastic, ability to work under pressure and to tight deadlines, through prioritising work and managing deadlines
• Experience working with Palantir Foundry or equivalent Foundry Amplify Certificate is desirable but not essential 

Qualifications for the Business Analyst:
• Degree in relevant field (e.g. data management, information systems, computer science, mathematics, engineering) is desirable but not essential 

Security Clearance
The successful candidate must be able to achieve and maintain Security Check (SC) security clearance for this role.
Many of the positions within our company are subject to national security clearance and Trade Control restrictions. This means that your eligibility for certain roles may be affected by your place of birth, nationality, current or former citizenship, and any residency you hold or have held. Further details are available at United Kingdom Security Vetting: clearance levels - GOV.UK (

What we offer 
• Generous holiday allowance 
• Matched contribution pension scheme, with life assurance
• Employee share scheme 
• Employee shopping savings portal
• Payment of Professional Fees
• Reservists in the armed forces receive 10-days special paid leave 
• Holiday Trading is a benefit that allows the majority of employees to buy additional leave or to sell up to one working week of annual leave from their annual entitlement
• ‘Be Kind Day’ enables employees to take one working day's paid leave a year (or equivalent hours) to undertake volunteering work with their chosen organisation or registered charity
• Opportunity to work with innovative technology
• Opportunity to work on some of the most exciting engineering projects this country has to offer