Business Analyst

Job Title:                     Business Analyst

Location:                     Hybrid, UK

Compensation:           Competitive Salary + Benefits

Role Type:                   Full time / Fixed Term Contract – 18 months

Role ID:                       SF76538

Shape the future of digital engineering and business transformation

At Babcock, we’re working to create a safe and secure world, together. If you join us, you can play your part as a Business Analyst at any of our main UK locations. Drawing on your expertise in Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) and business analysis, you'll help shape the digital tools and systems that support some of the UK's most important engineering and defence programmes.

The role

As a Business Analyst, you'll play a key role in analysing, developing, maintaining and supporting engineering software applications, with a particular focus on PLM and 3DEXPERIENCE solutions. Working closely with stakeholders across the business, you'll help define requirements, translate business needs into effective technical solutions, and support the delivery of digital transformation initiatives that drive efficiency, innovation and operational excellence.

This is an exciting opportunity to join a collaborative team where your expertise will directly influence how engineering and technology solutions are delivered across Babcock. You'll gain exposure to complex programmes, cutting-edge digital tools and a diverse network of stakeholders, while continuing to develop your career in a business that invests in its people.

Day-to-day, you’ll be required to:

• Analyse business requirements and translating them into effective system and application solutions.
• Support and enhancing PLM and 3DEXPERIENCE applications in line with business and IT strategies.
• Collaborate with stakeholders, developers and analysts to define user stories and acceptance criteria.
• Maintain and prioritising product backlogs while supporting Agile Scrum delivery practices.
• Identify opportunities for continuous improvement across engineering software applications and business processes.

This role is full time, 37.5 hours per week and provides hybrid working arrangements with days in the office and days working from home.

Essential experience of the Business Analyst

• Experience working with PLM applications, particularly 3DEXPERIENCE.
• Business analysis experience including requirements definition, systems design and application support.
• Knowledge of Agile Scrum methodologies.
• Experience writing user stories that meet INVEST principles.
• Experience supporting the creation and refinement of product backlogs. Experience with Gherkin syntax for acceptance criteria would be advantageous.

Qualifications for the Business Analyst

We value difference and don’t have a fixed idea when it comes to background or education, provided you can show the required level of experience and/or willingness to learn then we would like to hear from you.

Security Clearance

The successful candidate must be able to achieve and maintain Standard (BPSS) and 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 (www.gov.uk).

What we offer 

• Generous holiday allowance
• Matched contribution pension scheme, with life assurance
• Access to a Digital GP, annual health check, and nutritional consultations through Aviva DigiCare+
• 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
• Flexible working – we give people more options to better integrate their work and personal life, whilst ensuring that business needs are met
• A dynamic working environment

Babcock

We’re Babcock — a global FTSE 100 organisation with over 29,000 people working together to make a difference.

Here, you’ll be part of something bigger. From initial design to final decommissioning, your work will contribute to products and services that are essential to national security and public infrastructure. Together, we’re building a future that lasts — not just through the impact we make, but through meaningful careers that respect your work-life balance.

We call that lifetime engineering.

Join us and see how far we can go, together.

We are a disability confident, committed employer. If you have a disability or need any reasonable adjustments during the application and selection stages, please email careers@babcockinternational.com with the subject header ‘Reasonable adjustments requirement’. We’re committed to building an inclusive culture where everyone’s free to thrive. We are happy to talk about flexible working – please ask about alternative patterns of work at interview.

Closing date: 23/10/2026