Business Analyst

January 27, 2024

Job Description


Job title: Business Analyst

Company: Jacobs

Job description: At Jacobs, we’ll inspire and empower you to deliver your best work so you can evolve, grow and succeed – today and into tomorrow. With more than 55,000 people in 40 countries, working at Jacobs offers an exciting range of opportunities to develop your career within a supportive and diverse team who always strive to do the right thing for our people, clients and communities.

People are Jacobs’ greatest asset, and we offer a competitive package to retain and attract the best talent.

In addition to the benefits you’d expect, UK employees also receive free single medical cover and digital GP service, family-friendly benefits such as enhanced parental leave pay and free membership of employee assistance and parental programmes, plus reimbursement towards relevant professional development and memberships. We also give back to our communities through our Collectively program which incorporates matched-funding, paid volunteering time and charitable donations.

Work-life balance and flexibility is a key focus area for Jacobs. We’re happy to discuss hybrid, part-time and flexible working hours, patterns and locations to suit you and our business.

About the Opportunity

Since 2019 Jacobs has been engaged in supporting one of our large government clients in one of their most challenging and complex transformation journeys ever undertaken. The programme has been designed to consolidate key enabling business functions under a single operating model.

This project provides a challenging and rewarding environment for individuals seeking to grow their experience and understanding of public sector transformation. This will involve:

  • Transformation at scale. 20,000 user community, 500 strong programme team
  • Complex delivery approach. A hybrid in more than one sense, the programme employs a range of project delivery models while journeying to Scaled Agile.
  • We are entering an exciting phase of the programme lifecycle; starting to bring together the business processes and enabling technologies for the first phase of integrated testing.
  • Ahead of us lies two years of intensive work to implement the desired business changes.

Jacobs currently provide project and programme management expertise as well as business analysis capability to support programme delivery. A key part of this will be for experienced Business Analysts, able to unpick complex business process relationships and drive the client towards simple, coherent solutions.

This role can be based in Manchester, Gloucester or London, and requires the successful applicant to be at client site 3-4 days per week.

Expected salary:

Location: United Kingdom

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