Senior Business Analyst Lead

Location: This is an opportunity to work on a programme with an exciting pipeline of transformational work primarily based in the UAE, with return travel to the UK included as part of an overseas package.

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Role Overview:

Leidos is seeking an accomplished, Senior Business Analyst Lead to support a large-scale Supply Chain technology transformation in the middle-eastern Oil and Gas industry.

You will lead, manage and co-ordinate a team of business analysts to empower our customer to establish, and deliver, your vision and value. Through offering extensive business analytics experience, business strategic and operations planning capability, change acculturalisation expertise and business transformation knowledge, this role with have a significant impact on programme/business outcomes.

Duties & Responsibilities:

• Establish an understanding of key business processes, their architectural components and associated operating procedures
• Lead reviews and define target business/operating models and their components
• Requires ability to communicate with executive leadership (internally or client) regarding matters of significant importance to the organisation/project
• Elicit, analyse, define and document business requirements
• Evaluate, analyse and support business change impacts
• Undertake large and complex data analytical activity as well as help to form data management strategies
• Assist in establishing strategic vision and strategic journeys of businesses
• Work closely with the Product Owner to understand the business drivers and desired outcomes, and ensure proposed solutions and prototypes are produced in line with these
• Help to translate the designs into stories for the developers
• Support User Acceptance Testing activities, by helping to define test scenarios and assisting management of testing and training
• Help recommend and design modelling and testing approaches / methodologies
• Drive continuous improvement initiatives, working to convince others to accept area’s view/current practices and agree/accept new concepts, practices and approaches

Skills Required:

• BS degree and strong prior relevant experience or Masters with prior relevant experience. May possess a Doctorate in technical domain. 
• Experience in Supply Chain transformation and/or Oil & Gas industry
• Experience in Overseas working
• Lean Six Sigma Yellow or Green belt
• Agile Scrum Master
• ITIL 4 Foundation
• Statistical systems such as Origin, Matlab
• Data and Analytics knowledge would be advantageous
• Reporting and Dashboarding knowledge would be advantageous
• Experience of working within a large-scale and complex technology enabled transformation programme
• Experience of ITIL/Service Management methodologies
• Experience of working with partner organisation and 3rd party suppliers

Desirable Skills:

• Agile Methodology: Applying an iterative approach to project or program delivery; this includes adapting to changing requirements, fostering collaboration, and rapidly delivering high quality solutions. 
• Business Analysis: Evaluating business needs and requirements to identify appropriate solutions.  
• Business Requirements: Defining and documenting the essential needs and conditions for achieving process and financial objectives.
• Business Systems Analysis: Evaluating and interpreting business needs to create solutions that align with organizational goals, and facilitating communication between stakeholders and technical teams. 
• Change Management: Guiding others through transformation processes; this includes identifying stakeholders, assessing the impact, providing relevant information at the appropriate cadence, and monitoring implementation.     
• Cross-Functional Project Management: Coordinating across multiple departments/teams to deliver projects on time and within scope, ensuring collaboration and resource optimization. 
• Data Analysis: Understanding the collection, processing, and evaluation of data to generate actionable insights and forecasts for decision making.  
• Project Management: Leading and coordinating project execution by defining objectives, creating a plan and timeline, coordinating resources, monitoring progress, and ensuring overall success. 
• Quality Control (QC): Monitoring and inspecting products, processes, or services to ensure compliance with quality standards, specifications, and regulatory requirements. 
• Systems Analysis: Examining intricate systems to identify issues, propose enhancements, and ensure alignment with organizational objectives. 

Clearance Requirements:

• BPSS Pre-screening required to Start

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What we do for you:
At Leidos we are PASSIONATE about customer success, UNITED as a team and INSPIRED to make a difference. We offer meaningful and engaging careers, a collaborative culture, and support for your career goals, all while nurturing a healthy work-life balance.
We provide an employment package that attracts, develops and retains only the best in talent. This unique reward scheme offers:

• Being based in UAE with customer
• 6 weeks in UAE then 2 weeks in UK (subject to customer need).  Possible 6/2wk rotation
• Hotels and food in UAE
• Medical and Dental in UAE
• Travel within UAE
• This is not a Income Tax free expat role at first but may become one in subsequent years.

Commitment to Diversity:

We welcome applications from every part of the community and are committed to a truly diverse and inclusive culture.  We foster a sense of belonging, welcoming all perspectives and contributions, and providing equal access to opportunities and resources for everyone.  If you have a disability or need any reasonable adjustments during the application and selection stages please let us know, and we will respond in a way that best fits your needs.

Who We Are:

Leidos UK Logistics & Missions Support - Through thought leadership and innovation, Leidos delivers cutting-edge logistics solutions that mirror the end-to-end experience available from online retailers.

Leidos is a growing company delivering innovative technology and solutions focused on safeguarding critical capabilities and transformation in frontline services, our work in the United Kingdom includes addressing some of the most complex problems in defence, healthcare, government, safety and security, and transportation.

What Makes Us Different:

Purpose: you can use your passion and abilities at Leidos to keep the people you care about safe. We are at the forefront of machine learning, AI, cyber security and solutions. Using your skills in the technology frontline by helping to build a safer world.  You can inspire change.

Collaboration: having flexibility to do your job is one of our core benefits, enabling you to become part of our extraordinary team.  We have been empowering our people to work flexibly for years.  Whether you work from home, the office or on customer sites, we will give you the digital tools and the flexibility to work smarter and align your needs and ours.          

People: Leidos empowers people from every background to be themselves and gives you the tools to learn new skills by enabling growth whilst developing. We believe that extraordinary people need opportunities to grow, to be inspired and to inspire others. At Leidos, we invest in technical academies, career rotations and a career development plans that enhance your future.