Location: Crawley, United Kingdom

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Together we offer fantastic opportunities for committed employees to learn and develop their career with us. At Thales UK, we research, develop, and supply technology and services that impact the lives of millions of people each day to make life better, and keep us safer. We innovate across the major industries of Aerospace, Defence, Security and Space. Your health and well-being matters to us and that’s why we offer you the flexibility to do what’s important to you; whether that’s part time hours, job sharing, home working, or the ability to flex your start and finish times. Where possible, we support a working pattern that suits your lifestyle and helps you reach your ambitions.

Business Analyst - CortAIx

Can be based at Bristol, Crawley, Reading or Glasgow, some travel will be required.

Business Area:

Thales’s AI technology factory, CortAIx. Designed to speed up the classification and industrialisation of AI development tools and use cases for system data. Thales already equips its systems with AI, and continues to identify new use cases to increase performance, such as, for instance, mission planning, air traffic management, and steering drones and robots

Overview:

To drive the evolution of Data Enablement and AI capabilities within the businesses and to our customers in order to increase growth in orders and increased customer satisfaction.  This role will sit within the UK CortAIX Factory organisation in the UK supporting the design, development of AI technologies for use in the military and civilian ecosystems.

The Business Analyst is a role within the CortAIx UK Factory that forms part of the growing data and AI technologies industrialisation and delivery to Thales UK customers. The analyst will look to identify opportunities within the projects, programmes and products and translate the customer needs/expectations into deliverables that the CortAIx Engineering team will deliver against.

This role requires a hands-on person who will drive the creation/use of conceptual and logical data/AI models and work with functions to understand existing ways of working and define products or changes to help improve performance

The role requires individuals who are able to assess, describe and document both the current and future state of processes, data models and tool integration. Discovering, validating, documenting and communicating through modelling, simulating and analysing.

The analyst will have a focus on the military front lines commands, the technology they employ and will be critical to the enhancements and delivery of data and AI technologies across Thales UK.

Primary Purpose of the role

Act as a liaison between the cortAIx Factory UK and the UK business and/or function.Facilitate requirements gathering and capture sessions with the UK business and functions to define solution outcomes.Develop benefits use cases and models to support future plans of work, aligning to business priority outcomes.Work with the architects/system engineering to use the best digital capability to meet the end user needsUse Thales UK process and methodology to understand the product requirement from the business or function.Develop new and refine existing data standards, policies and procedures by working closely with the business, functions and data owners to develop and implement best practices policies and guidance across the company’s key systems and data sourcesContinually assess and identify risks in line with the risk management approach, ensuring they are mitigated within the data governance programmeAssist with the Data governance processes to protect and secure Thales data while seeking to explore exploitation and collaboration opportunities.Ensure that critical business information is available in a timely and accurate manner.Will act as an advocate for the cortAIx Factory UK, its approaches and ambitions.Work with the change manager to understand change impact and develop change, training and communication materialSupport the Thales UK businesses to adopt common processes and toolsets.

Principal Relationships:

Thales UK Data and Digital Teams – cortAIx Factory /Labs UK/France/CanadaThales UK and International Data and Digital Engineering TeamsThales UK Business Line Project EngineersThales UK Product System and Software teams

Skills and experienced required

Essential

Knowledge, deep understanding of UK Front Line Commands and the technologies deployed.Involvement in business transformation activitiesAble to build excellent relationships with key internal and external stakeholders based on trust and confidence.Good all round experience or knowledge of UK Military technologies, process, doctrine.Strong analytical and conceptual skills, ideally possessing some knowledge or experience in engineering environmentsAble to organise and facilitate groups in workshop settingsBusiness Analysis skills to identify business needs and determine solutionsAbility to be able to deliver training material, process briefings, requirements capture etcUnderstanding of the importance that data and digital efficiency play in support process and managing a business.Understanding of project management principles and processes.Ability to drive and deliver change management activity.“As-is” data process discovery and analysis and \"To be\" data process modelling and analysis.Understanding of how the different business functions interact and to be able to translate these interactions in to joined up solutions and processes.Excellent skill level in common office tools (MS office suite etc).

Desirable

Good all round knowledge of business structures and processes.Experience of working in an agile sprint and scrum methodology project approach.IT Knowledge (IS strategy, infrastructure, architecture, security and service management)Design to implementation methodologies, preferably gained through practical experience.Familiarity with application delivery methods.Good interpersonal, verbal and written communication, including good presentations.Hands-on experience with modelling, analysis and simulation tools.Good technical knowledge of Naval systems, processes and doctrineProject management experienceExperience as a business analystOperational experience within the military domains

Security Clearance statement 

This role will require SC Clearance. It would be advantageous if currently held, however, if not currently held, it is a requirement that the successful applicant will undergo, achieve, and maintain SC Clearance.  Please visit the UKSV website for further guidance.

To be eligible for full SC, you generally need to have resided in the UK for the last 5 years.  In some circumstances, a minimum of 3 years’ residence in the UK over the last 5 years may be accepted, with additional overseas checks.

For further details of the evidence required to apply for Baseline and Security Clearance please refer to the National Security Vetting (NSV) Agency - United Kingdom Security Vetting - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)

What We Can Offer

We’re committed to giving you opportunities to be your best. We believe in embracing the passion and potential of our people, and to achieve this we offer market leading training, development and experiences, along with the opportunity to be mentored and coached by some of the smartest minds in the industry. We hire from within as our first priority, so you’ll have a myriad of opportunities within our diverse, global organisation.

Our packages will also come with bonus potential, private healthcare, a hybrid working environment and a wide variety of further benefits, which are flexible to suit your lifestyle and requirements.

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In line with Thales' Baseline Security requirements, candidates will be asked to provide evidence of identity, eligibility to work in the UK and employment and/or education history for up to three years. Some vacancies may require full Security Clearance which can require further evidence to be provided. For further details of the evidence required to apply for Baseline and Security Clearance please refer to the Defence Business Services National Security Vetting (DBS NSV) Agency.

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