Senior Business Systems Analyst

Leidos is seeking an enthusiastic and motivated Senior Business Analyst to support Programme Execution within the Logistics, Commodities and Services Transformation (LCST) programme. The successful applicant will play a crucial role in providing, curating and driving knowledge, information and data insights to support programme delivery, thus ensuring excellence in programme execution within the Logistics and Mission Support (LMS) division. You will lead initiatives to analyse and solve complex business problems, to be solved with processes and applications.

You will be self-motivated and able to work autonomously and within a team to achieve day-to-day objectives, aligning to, and helping expand, our Business Analytics Framework, supporting programme delivery against project milestones and appropriate application of program execution governance. You must be an effective communicator, tenacious and motivated find information and form knowledge, and comfortable directly engaging with customers and colleagues.

Main Duties:

• Work in a senior role within a multidisciplinary Business Analytics capability in support of Project and Change delivery, to ensure that customer and operational needs are clearly identified, analysed and communicated across the stakeholder community

• Evaluate, analyse and support business change impacts and constantly drive to ensure the product evolves towards the service vision and business architecture strategy

• Elicit, analyse, define and document business requirements and transform such artefacts into developer-consumed forms

• Establish a baseline understanding of customer/business functions, stakeholders, operations, components and procedures

• Lead inspections of functions, departments and operations with analysis of current and planned future operating models, operating frameworks and business models

• Work closely with the Product Owner to understand and refine business drivers and desired outcomes, and ensuring optimal solutions and prototypes are produced in line with these

• Undertake data analytical activity, as well as define and support information asset management/stewardship processes and continuous improvement

• Work closely with the Functional and Product Owners to understand the business drivers and desired outcomes, and ensure proposed solutions and prototypes are produced and tested in line with these

• Support Principal BA/Business Analysis Lead in further development of the BA capability

Skills Required:

• Demonstrable experience in Leading, Coordinating and Driving Requirements Elicitation & Analytics, as well as the ability to work with Subject Matter Experts and a wide array of stakeholders to capture business requirements alongside Project/Programme Delivery and Engineering disciplines

• Ability to identify and present exec-level actionable research insights to business stakeholders

• Experience of working in multiple work streams in complex change and development environments

• The ability to facilitate effective business and business process design workshops and Continuous Improvement initiatives, to define detailed, complete and agreed structures and processes

• The ability to identify significant gaps between as is and to be processes and business architectures and understand the steps required to move to the target state

• Leadership, communication and interpersonal skills with the ability to work both independently and as part of a team

• Business process modelling (with ability to use a conventional modelling notation, e.g. UML)

Skills Desired:

• Lean Six Sigma experience

• Agile/SAFe experience

• APM PMQ

• ITIL 4 exposure

• Knowledge of Service Oriented Architecture

• Working with large-scale and complex integration programmes

• Working with 3rd party suppliers

Clearance Requirements:

• Pre-screening to Start BPSS

• Clearance for Role SC