The Role
Please note this role requires you to pass Security Check clearance. Please click on the link for details.
This is a great opportunity to join our warm and collaborative multidisciplinary agile teams and become part of our established business analyst community, with over 140 members across Justice Digital, Data and Science. You will play an integral role in delivering high quality, user focused solutions, working in a dynamic organisation that is exciting and innovative. At Justice Digital, Data and Science you will have the opportunity to work across a range of different services, progress your career and make a difference.
We are recruiting for several vacancies across the business, including roles within Probation Digital, Prisons Digital, Technology Services and the Legal Aid Agency Digital.
If this feels like an exciting challenge, something you are enthusiastic about, and want to join our team, please read on and apply!
This role aligns against Business Analyst from the Government Digital and Data Framework.
To help picture your life at MoJ Justice Digital please look at our blog and our Digital and Technology strategy 2025.
Find out more about the role
Want to find out more?
We’re hosting an informal virtual session where you can learn more about what it’s like to work as a Business Analyst in Justice Digital, Data and Science.
Whether you’re interested in exploring how your skills might align with our roles, or you’re simply curious about the Civil Service application process, we’d be delighted for you to join us.
During this event, you will have a chance to chat with one of our tech leaders, who will all be happy to answer any questions you have.
More details below!
Dates:
Tuesday 2nd June 2026: 11:30am – 12:30pm
Friday 12th June 2026: 10am - 11am
Please register for the free, virtual event here on Tuesday 2nd June
Please register for the free, virtual event here on Friday 12th June
You’ll receive a range of excellent benefits when you join our department, including:
- A generous employer pension contribution of 28.97% through the Civil Service Pension Scheme.
- 25 days of annual leave, (increasing to 30 days once you have reached 5 years of service), plus 8 bank holidays and a privilege day for the King’s birthday.
- Flexible working arrangements including hybrid working, working part time or compressed hours. Designed to support a positive work–life balance.
- Employees are allocated 10% of their working time for personal and professional development.
- A £1k per person learning budget is in place to support all our people, with access to best-in-class conferences and seminars, accreditation with professional bodies, fully funded vocational programmes and e-learning platforms.
- Compassionate maternity, adoption, and shared parental leave policies, with up to 26 weeks leave at full pay, 13 weeks with partial pay, and 13 weeks further leave. And maternity support/paternity leave at full pay for 2 weeks, too!
You can find more details of the Benefits we offer here. To help picture your life at MoJ Justice Digital, Data and Science please take a look at our blog.
Key Responsibilities
As a Business Analyst in Justice Digital, Data and Science you’ll work within a multi-disciplinary product or service team, either independently or contributing to large scale transformations.
Business Analysts typically:
- Undertake analysis to understand how a business area works, considering the people, organisation, processes, information, data and technology
- Identify and elaborate user and business needs to enable effective design, development and business change
- Ensure new products and services meet business and user needs, and are aligned with organisational goals
- Understand any business and policy constraints that need to be considered, and assess the implications
- Collaborate on prioritisation to agree minimum viable product and sprint features
- Identify areas for improvement, explore feasible options, analyse the effects of change and define success measures
- Manage stakeholder relationships and have a good understanding of your work area
- Contribute to the business analysis community including sharing best practice and mentoring others
- Take ownership for improving your own knowledge of business analysis and agile principles, methods and tools and play an active role within the Business Analysis community in sharing knowledge and supporting other members
If this feels like an exciting challenge, something you are enthusiastic about, and want to join our team please read on and apply!
Person Specification
Essential
- Delivering analysis within different delivery approaches – assessed at pre-sift and sift
- You have experience delivering business analysis within a digital, multidisciplinary team using different delivery methodologies, such as Scrum or Kanban. You understand how products and services are delivered through these approaches and can adapt how you work and the outputs you produce to suit your team’s delivery method. You work effectively with other roles, adjusting your approach to ensure value is delivered at pace. (Adapting to delivery methodologies)
- Understanding systems and data – assessed at interview
You analyse how digital systems and data work, including what they currently do and what they need to do in future. You create clear models and documentation to support shared understanding across the team. Working with others in a multidisciplinary team, you identify gaps in functionality and user experience and explain the impact of these to support better decisions. (Digital and data systems analysis)
- Defining and managing business and user needs – assessed at interview
- You can elicit, analyse, challenge and validate business and user needs, working through areas of conflict where they arise. You can define and manage a range of requirements artefacts, such as problem statements, epics, features, user stories, acceptance criteria and non-functional requirements, to clearly communicate needs. You ensure requirements are managed and traceable in line with agreed approaches, and you can facilitate the prioritisation of needs with minimal supervision. (Defining and managing business needs, user needs and requirements)
- Using business modelling to support understanding and decision making – assessed at interview
- You can select and apply appropriate business modelling techniques to support analysis, decision making and stakeholder understanding. You can elicit the right information and create clear models and diagrams that represent processes, relationships, information and interactions across the organisation. (Business modelling)
- Communicating clearly and influencing effectively – assessed at interview
- You communicate in a clear, honest and engaging way, adapting your style and methods to suit different audiences, including senior stakeholders. You ensure communication has a clear purpose, check understanding and encourage the use of appropriate digital and non-digital channels. You share information respectfully and positively, taking account of different perspectives and needs. (Communicating and influencing)
- Working collaboratively with others – assessed at sift and interview
- You work collaboratively within your own team and across professions, building strong professional relationships with a wide range of stakeholders. You actively share information, encourage joined-up working and contribute to a positive team environment where people feel valued, supported and respected. You are comfortable working independently when required, while remaining connected to wider team goals. (Working together)
- Improving services and processes – assessed at interview
You work with others to identify where services and processes can be improved and made more efficient. You use technology and new ideas to simplify ways of working, encouraging suggestions from a wide range of people. You explain changes clearly and support colleagues to adapt, creating an environment where people feel comfortable sharing ideas and challenging how things are done, while considering the impact of changes on different users. (Changing and improving)
Willingness to be assessed against the requirements for SC clearance.
