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Job summary

Do you love solving complex problems and turning them into smart, streamlined solutions? Are you passionate about making technology work better, faster, and more intuitively?

You’ll be a forward-thinking, solution-oriented professional who thrives at the intersection of engineering, technology, and organisational change. In this role, you’ll play a key part in contextualising, analysing, and designing change across HMGCC and spanning a wide range of business domains and stakeholders.

Every day will bring new challenges and exciting opportunities to make a real impact. You'll transition seamlessly between shaping strategic change and supporting the creation and implementation of the products, services and technology. Whether it's untangling system inefficiencies, aligning strategic capabilities with business needs, or helping shape cutting-edge tech, your work will directly influence how we design, build, and deliver products.

You'll work closely with engineers, enterprise architects, product teams and senior leaders, bringing together different perspectives to solve complex challenges that span technology, operations and business strategy.

You’ll be in a diverse, fast-paced, collaborative environment where analytical thinking, creative problem-solving, and a passion for innovation are valued.

Job description

Putting your skills to use

As part of the Business Analyst team, you’ll apply your diverse skill set to help bridge the gap between complex technical challenges and real-world solutions. In this role, you will:

• Collaborate with technical roles and stakeholders to gather, analyse, and refine requirements for a variety of technically orientated projects.
• Translate strategic concepts into clear, accessible documentation and insights that make sense to both technical and non-technical audiences.
• Design and optimise business processes that enhance efficiency, reduce complexity, and support long-term growth.
• Take part in agile ceremonies, ensuring alignment between evolving business needs and technical capabilities throughout the development lifecycle.
• Produce insightful reports and visualisations that empower data-driven decisions across stakeholders and business teams.

Person specification

More about you

To apply for this role, you will already have:

• Experience working in a role that required analytical thinking, problem solving and collaboration with stakeholders.
• Analytical skills, including requirements validation, root cause analysis, use case development, and process modelling.
• Excellent communication skills, with the ability to build relationships and work effectively with both technical and non-technical stakeholders.

It would be beneficial if you also have one of the following (although these are not essential):

• Experience in analysing and guiding strategic business change, translating organisational strategy into actionable insights with value realisation.
• Experience contributing to projects, business improvement initiatives or organisational change activities.
• An understanding of engineering industry standards and best practices.

Your personal skills

You will be someone who:

• Has a keen desire to learn continuously and grow both your technical and interpersonal skills.
• Collaborates naturally with stakeholders and cross-functional teams, valuing shared knowledge and joint success, helping teams to move forward with confidence.
• Is committed to excellence, taking ownership to see projects through to a high standard.
• Is curious and enjoys creative problem-solving, understands complex problems, and shapes innovative, practical solutions.
• Can prioritise and manage your workload effectively, adapting to changing needs with flexibility and focus.
• Works closely with stakeholders to understand their goals, build relationships, clarify expectations, and ensure successful outcomes.

Benefits

What we offer

Now that we’ve explained a bit about what you will be doing, here’s what we can offer you:

• A positive, collaborative and inclusive work environment.
• 25 days annual leave, rising to 30 after 5 years’ service.
• 8 Bank Holiday days off in addition to your annual leave.
• 2 ½ additional days leave (set dates through the year).
• Pension. Our Pension scheme is Alpha. It’s competitive.
• Opportunities for development.
• Flexible or compressed hours to support you to balance your life with your work.
• Paid overtime or time off in lieu.
• Paid parental and adoption leave and Neonatal policy.
• Affinity groups – whether you are a person with a disability, part of the LGBTQIA+ community and/or from an ethnic minority background, we provide an inclusive environment, support and a variety of networks for everyone.
• Training. This can be anything from a ½ day internal course to a distant learning degree. If it’s relevant to your career, we will aim to support you.
• Opportunities for mentoring and coaching.
• Free secure parking and allocated parking for car shares.
• Free onsite gym, open 24 hours a day.
• Bike to work scheme.
• Multi-faith Prayer room. This is a quiet contemplation room for staff to use for prayer or reflection.
• 3 days paid leave a year to support a registered charity of your choice.
• Sports & Social Society. Whether its classic cars or baking, golf or crafting, we have a society for you. We offer regular subsidised theatre tickets and on-site activities.
• On site café and restaurant.
• On site nursery (subject to availability).
• New Joiner Loan*.

About HMGCC

We are HMGCC, the engineering specialists at the heart of the UK’s national security.

We work with the national security community, UK government, academia, private sector partners and international allies to bring engineering ingenuity to the national security mission, creating tools and technologies that drive us ahead and help to protect the nation.

We invest in our people, not only with training but also support throughout your career with us; to allow you to reach your full potential at work, as well as enjoy the work/life balance many aspire to.

To find out more about us and if we’re right for you, please visit our website.

Equal Opportunities

Inclusion and diversity really matter to us. It's not just about numbers or visible differences.

HMGCC are committed to providing equal opportunities and encourage applications from candidates of all backgrounds, ethnicities, gender identities, sexual orientations, and those with disabilities or who are neurodiverse.

We’re not looking for any one type of person. We’re looking for talent from all different backgrounds to join our organisation, where we genuinely respect and value each other's differences, as well as our similarities. It makes us even better at what we do.

To find out more about our culture and inclusion and diversity, please visit our website.

We are proud to offer applicants who declare a disability or long-term health condition the opportunity to apply through the Offer of Interview Scheme. We aim to ensure that a fair and proportionate number of disabled applicants that best meet the minimum essential criteria for this position are offered an interview where practicable.

We offer reasonable reimbursement of travel costs for candidates attending in person interviews or assessments during the recruitment and vetting process. Full details will be provided with your interview or assessment invitation. Reimbursement is discretionary and will only be made in line with the Candidate Expenses Policy, as amended from time to time. Candidates must book their own travel, using the most economical option, and provide original hardcopy receipts for reimbursement.

Things you need to know

Artificial intelligence

Artificial intelligence can be a useful tool to support your application, however, all examples and statements provided must be truthful, factually accurate and taken directly from your own experience. Where plagiarism has been identified (presenting the ideas and experiences of others, or generated by artificial intelligence, as your own) applications may be withdrawn and internal candidates may be subject to disciplinary action. Please see our candidate guidance (opens in a new window) for more information on appropriate and inappropriate use.

Selection process details

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Our Recruitment Team will process your application once the role has closed and everyone will get a response.

Please note dependent on the recruitment requirements, we withhold the right to bring forward the closing date for this role from the original closing date.

*We offer an interest free loan of up to £2,500, which is to be repaid in equal instalments over a period of 24 months, to support any costs incurred due to your change of employment.

It is the organisation's policy not to provide feedback at any stage of the recruitment process. This may be contrary to this message.

Feedback will only be provided if you attend an interview or assessment.

Security

Successful candidates must meet the security requirements before they can be appointed. The level of security needed is developed vetting (opens in a new window).

See our vetting charter (opens in a new window).People working with government assets must complete baseline personnel security standard (opens in new window) checks.

Nationality requirements

Open to UK nationals only.

Working for the Civil Service

Please note this Post is NOT regulated by the Civil Service Commission.The Civil Service embraces diversity and promotes equal opportunities. As such, we run a Disability Confident Scheme (DCS) for candidates with disabilities who meet the minimum selection criteria.

Diversity and Inclusion

The Civil Service is committed to attract, retain and invest in talent wherever it is found. To learn more please see theCivil Service People Plan (opens in a new window) and the Civil Service Diversity and Inclusion Strategy (opens in a new window).

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Contact point for applicants

Job contact :

• Name : Recruitment
• Email : Opportunities@hiringteam.org.uk
• Telephone : 0800 138 8221 (Our lines are open Monday to Friday from 9am until 4pm)

Recruitment team

• Email : Opportunities@hiringteam.org.uk