Job Description

Overview

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AtkinsRéalis is growing its Business insights consulting team to support digital, data and transformation programmes across the aviation sector. We are looking for experienced Business Analysts who can help clients solve complex problems in complex, operationally demanding and safety-critical airport and aviation environments, where passenger experience, operational performance, assurance, security, resilience and stakeholder alignment are essential. This is an opportunity to apply your business insight expertise to meaningful aviation programmes, from airport operations and passenger processing through to asset management, operational improvement and digitally enabled transformation.

We are seeking experienced professionals operating at Senior Consultant level who are ready for a new challenge. We welcome creative, adaptable problem solvers who want to help shape the future of aviation through smarter, safer and more efficient digital services, while continuing to develop their own career. This role offers the opportunity to work across complex, high-impact programmes and to take your career in the direction of your interests.

When it comes to living your life, we want your role with AtkinsRéalis to be a key part of your personal journey. We have a collaborative inclusive team culture where people will help, guide and mentor you to help you grow. We pitch in and help colleagues because we succeed as a team.

Our flexible and remote working policies are designed to support different personal priorities and needs. Also, ask us about some of our recent pledges for Women's Equality, as well as being a 'Disability Confident' and 'Inclusive Employer.

As a Senior Business Analyst in our Secure Government business unit, you will support digital, data and transformation programmes across secure, regulated and operationally critical environments, with a particular focus on aviation. In this role, you will help clients turn complex operational challenges into clear, deliverable and value-focused outcomes. You will support programmes that improve passenger experience, strengthen operational resilience, enable better use of data and technology, and help airport and aviation organisations deliver safe, secure and efficient services in highly regulated environments.

AtkinsRéalis brings together deep aviation domain knowledge, digital transformation capability and practical delivery experience to help clients improve operational performance and passenger outcomes. Our teams work across complex stakeholder environments to connect strategy, data, technology and delivery, using insight-led insight and emerging technologies to identify opportunities, strengthen decision-making and support safer, more resilient and efficient airport operations.

Your role

• Delivering exceptional results for our clients by putting value at the core of everything we do.

• Working with operational, airport, airline, engineering, security, regulatory and digital stakeholders to translate complex needs into clear, traceable requirements and deliverable outcomes.

• Improving operational performance across areas such as passenger processing, security, asset management, airport resilience and operational control.

• Using data-led insights to identify opportunities for efficiency, automation, improved decision-making and better passenger outcomes.

• Supporting safe, secure and assured delivery in complex, regulated and operationally critical environments.

• Facilitating collaboration across airport operators, airlines, engineering, technology, security, operational and regulatory stakeholders.

• Exploring how emerging technologies, including AI, can enhance insight, planning, assurance and operational effectiveness.

• Facilitating collaboration with cross-functional teams to drive digital initiatives and shape the culture and behaviours required for successful digital adoption.

• Analyse processes and operations, using appropriate tools and techniques to identify improvements in accordance with client objectives, including workshop facilitation.

• Facilitating end‑to‑end requirements development, from initial business needs through user‑level requirements, ensuring clear translation, traceability, and alignment to support the creation of value‑adding digital solutions.

• Developing and facilitating the development of transformation roadmaps that form the foundation of digital change for our customers.

• Influence Agile practices within our client’s environment, helping to shape key activities and actively participating in sprints, scrums and retrospectives.

• Contributing to the development of operational improvement tools, techniques and methods that build capability within our teams, including exploring how AI‑enabled approaches can enhance efficiency, insight and value.

• Design, execution and facilitating of operational proving trials, including insights of data and compilation of comprehensive trial outcomes report.

• Championing stakeholders' needs, ensuring development is aligned with their requirements and business goals.

About you

• Experience in operating at a Senior Level in consulting services to clients or relevant business analyst role.

• Experience working in the aviation sector, or in comparable operationally critical, regulated environments such as transport, defence, energy, utilities or secure government. Direct airport, airline or aviation digital transformation experience would be advantageous.

• Attained or working towards BA Diploma.

• Understanding of the aviation delivery environment, including operational safety, security, regulatory compliance, passenger experience, resilience, assurance, data integration and the importance of working effectively across multidisciplinary airport, airline, engineering, operational and digital teams.

• Experience in technology-led transformation programmes across strategy, business design and change management.

• Experience in an agile project delivery environment (e.g., APMP, SAFe, MSP, DSDM, Scrum).

• Ability to support the translation of user needs and business requirements into user stories and acceptance criteria.

• Analysing complex problems, designing innovative solutions, and communicating them effectively to a wide range of audiences.

• Experience with core Business insights and delivery tools such as Visio, Azure DevOps & Jira.

• Exemplary stakeholder engagement and management skills.

• An interest in emerging technology and being digital savvy.

• Proactive in shaping the future of our team and contributing to our communities.

Rewards & benefits

Explore the rewards and benefits that help you thrive – at every stage of your life and your career. Enjoy competitive salaries, employee rewards and a brilliant range of benefits you can tailor to suit your own health, wellbeing, financial and lifestyle choices. Make the most of a myriad of opportunities for training and professional development to grow your skills and expertise. And combine our hybrid working culture and flexible holiday allowances to balance a great job and fulfilling personal life.

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About AtkinsRéalis

We're AtkinsRéalis, a world-class engineering services and nuclear organization. We connect people, data and technology to transform the world's infrastructure and energy systems. Together, with our industry partners and clients, and our global team of consultants, designers, engineers and project managers, we can change the world. We're committed to facilitating our clients across our various end markets to engineer a better future for our planet and its people.

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Additional information

Security clearance

This role may require security clearance and offers of employment will be dependent on obtaining the relevant level of clearance. If this is necessary, it will be discussed with you at interview. The vetting process is delivered by United Kingdom Security Vetting (UKSV) and may require candidates to provide proof of residency in the UK of 5 years or longer. If applying to this role please do not make reference to (in conversation) or include in your application or CV, details of any current or previously held security clearance.

We are committed to creating a culture where everyone feels that they belong - a place where we can all be ourselves, thrive and develop to be the best we can be. So, we offer a range of family friendly, inclusive employment policies, flexible working arrangements and employee resource groups to support all employees. As an Equal Opportunities Employer, we value applications from all backgrounds, cultures and ability. As a Disability Confident Leader, we are committed to offering an interview to all applicants who have a disability and meet the essential criteria. If you would like to be considered under this commitment, please let us know at the application stage.

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At AtkinsRéalis, we seek to hire individuals with diverse characteristics, backgrounds and perspectives. We strongly believe that world-class talent makes no distinctions based on gender, ethnic or national origin, sexual identity and orientation, age, religion or disability, but enriches itself through these differences.