Technical Business Analyst at IDPP, Reading, 6 Months, £500 per day

Technical Business Analyst - Aerospace & Defence

Location: Hybrid Working - Reading, Berkshire
Day Rate: £500 per day
Contract: Outside IR35
Security Requirements: Active SC Clearance and British Passport - Essential

The Opportunity

We are seeking an experienced Technical Business Analyst to join a Digital Engineering - Software Engineering function, supporting complex engineering and software development programmes within the Aerospace and Defence sector.

This is an excellent opportunity for a Technical Business Analyst with a strong background in requirements engineering and systems engineering, ideally gained through working on aircraft software or defence platform software projects.

The successful candidate will play a key role in defining, analysing and managing system and software requirements throughout the engineering life cycle, ensuring full traceability from stakeholder requirements through to implementation and verification.

Key Responsibilities

• Capture, analyse, document and maintain system and software requirements.

• Manage requirements baselines and change requests.

• Maintain end-to-end requirements traceability across engineering life cycle artefacts.

• Support requirements decomposition and allocation activities.

• Ensure alignment between stakeholder needs and technical implementation.

• Manage requirements throughout the engineering life cycle.

• Conduct impact assessments for proposed requirements changes.

• Work closely with software development, systems engineering and verification teams.

• Participate in technical reviews, validation activities and requirements audits.

• Ensure compliance with requirements engineering processes and standards.

Essential Experience & Skills

• Proven experience as a Technical Business Analyst within Aerospace, Defence or a similar engineering environment.

• Specific experience working on aircraft software or defence platform software projects.

• Strong background in Requirements Engineering and Systems Engineering.

• Experience in requirements elicitation, documentation and management.

• Strong understanding of requirements traceability and change control.

• Experience using requirements management tools.

• Understanding of systems engineering principles.

• Excellent analytical, communication and stakeholder management skills.

• Bachelor's degree in Aerospace Engineering, Computer Science, Systems Engineering or a related discipline.

Desirable Experience

• Experience working in regulated development environments.

• Knowledge of Model-Based Engineering.

• Familiarity with verification and validation processes.

• Experience with ArchiMate and/or TOGAF.

• Existing DV clearance would be advantageous.

Mandatory Security Requirements

Candidates must meet both of the following criteria:

• Hold valid, current Security Check (SC) Clearance.

• Hold a valid British passport.