Security Cleared Senior Business Analyst- Senior/ Principal Consultant- London/ Bristol/ Birmingham/ Cardiff

At Turner & Townsend we’re passionate about making the difference. That means delivering better outcomes for our clients, helping our people to realize their potential, and doing our part to create a prosperous society. 

Every day we help our major global clients deliver ambitious and highly technical projects, in over 110 offices worldwide. As part of our 2025 Vision, we are putting Digital at the heart of our business.

Our team is dynamic, innovative, and client-focused, supported by an inclusive and fun company culture. Our clients value our proactive approach, depth of expertise, integrity and the quality we deliver. As a result, our people get to enjoy working on some of the most exciting projects in the world.

Job Description

Turner & Townsend's Digital business unit are looking for a SC Cleared Business Analyst to join their team, to support and deliver digital and technology-enabled change across defence organisations and the supply chain.

The successful candidate will have excellent communication skills with an ability to adapt to and embed into different client environments, be comfortable in leading workshops, and familiarity with the requirements management lifecycle to enable successful delivery of technical solutions. The candidate should be comfortable working alongside technical developer teams, with an ability to elicit and translate technical requirements from non-technical stakeholders to a team of digital specialists.

You will work alongside senior client stakeholders and multidisciplinary teams to define requirements, shape solutions and deliver measurable outcomes within secure and complex environments. Candidates would be expected to travel up to 1-2 days per week supporting the delivery of the commissions. The successful candidate will provide business analysis expertise, to the UK Defence sector.

Key responsibilities:

• Advise & implement best practice Business Analysis methodologies
• Documenting, analysing and agreeing the As-Is state and identifying To-Be processes
• Managing data capture and document validation regarding a variety of projects, processes and operations
• Supporting Data Analysts & Architects in the production of systems and models.
• Analysis of model output, producing reports and commentary.
• Supporting and adapting client’s use of model outputs for decision making
• Supporting and testing technical solution outputs to BAU services.
• Develop detailed functional and non-functional specifications.
• Collaborate with project managers and cross-functional teams to design and implement digital solutions.
• Identify opportunities for process improvements and digital innovation.
• Ensure compliance with industry standards and regulations
• Contribute to bid development, client relationship building and growth initiatives where required.

Previous experience in the Defence sector is highly desirable.

Qualifications

Essential

• Business Analysis

  qualifications

  such as BCS or IIBA (desirable). Alternatively, extensive experience will be considered.
• Recent experience supporting digital or technology-enabled projects within the Defence sector.
• Experience operating across digital delivery roles such as service, product, business analysis or delivery management.
• Strong understanding of digital delivery lifecycles from shaping and mobilisation through to operational delivery.
• Confidence navigating ambiguity and complexity within secure environments.
• Strong stakeholder engagement and communication skills across technical and non-technical audiences.
• Active SC clearance or higher is required and Sole-UK Nationality.

Desirable

• Experience working with Defence Digital or military commands.
• Awareness of architecture, data or systems integration concepts sufficient to engage credibly with technical teams.
• Experience working with or developing on Palantir Foundry, Power BI and/or Google Cloud.
• Project or Agile

  qualifications

  (e.g. APM PMQ, Agile, Scrum).
• Experience contributing to bids or business development initiatives.

Additional Information

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We want our people to succeed both in work and life. To support this we promote a healthy, productive and flexible working environment that respects work-life balance.

Turner & Townsend is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees and actively encourage applications from all sectors of the community.

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SOX control responsibilities may be part of this role, which are to be adhered to where applicable.

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SOX control responsibilities may be part of this role, which are to be adhered to where applicable.

Join our social media conversations for more information about Turner & Townsend and our exciting future projects:

It is strictly against Turner & Townsend policy for candidates to pay any fee in relation to our recruitment process. No recruitment agency working with Turner & Townsend will ask candidates to pay a fee at any time.

Any unsolicited resumes/CVs submitted through our website or to Turner & Townsend personal e-mail accounts, are considered property of Turner & Townsend and are not subject to payment of agency fees. In order to be an authorised Recruitment Agency/Search Firm for Turner & Townsend, there must be a formal written agreement in place and the agency must be invited, by the Recruitment Team, to submit candidates for review.