Senior Business Analyst (Ref: 19623)

DSIT • Full-time • United Kingdom • £42.91k - £53.08k / year • 8h ago

Job summary

This position is based nationally.

Job description

Job Description:

As a Business Analyst your core purpose will be to act as the bridge between the business and the technical. This will involve you identifying the requirements of a service, identifying the benefits to the user and translating this into actionable requirements for the development team. You will work iteratively with the business and the development team to clarify ambiguity, resolve issues and assist with additional functionality across the service development lifecycle.

You will be experienced as a BA in a variety of elicitation methods and can advise your team on the appropriate use of each method depending on the stakeholder and scenario. You will be given the opportunity to continue to grow your management capabilities as well as managing relationships with senior stakeholders as you progress to becoming a leading figure within the BA community.

Essential Skills and Experience:

· Experience of working in a large digital organisation, or demonstrable understanding of large digital organisations operate in the context of this role

· Previous experience of working across senior technical and business stakeholders ensuring the understanding of requirements and acceptance criteria is aligned

· Proven track record of managing product lifecycles ensuring full alignment with wider Departmental strategy

· Experience of analysing large amounts of complex information and using it to produce solutions

· Has managed other BAs on a project by quality assuring the work produced and mentoring to improve outcomes

Person specification: To be successful you should have the following;

· Facilitation skills with the ability to find common ground between the technical and non-technical

· Excellent stakeholder engagement skills

· Experience of problem solving and working with others to deliver at pace

· Can make decisions within agreed parameters

· Good communication skills

Application process:

The following areas of Success Profile Framework will be used to assess and score your application during the sift, and interview.

· Experience – As demonstrated in your application form.

· Behaviours – You will be required to provide evidence of the following key behaviours at SEO Level.

Changing and Improving

Making Effective Decisions

· Technical – As demonstrated at interview. During the interview, you will be assessed against the Government Digital and Data (GDD) Capability Framework.

Capability Skill 1 - Context, problem and option analysis

Capability Skill 2 - Defining and managing business needs, user needs and requirements

Person specification

Please refer to Job Description

Behaviours

We'll assess you against these behaviours during the selection process:

Changing and Improving
Making Effective Decisions

Technical skills

We'll assess you against these technical skills during the selection process:

Capability Skill 1 - Context, problem and option analysis
Capability Skill 2 - Defining and managing business needs, user needs and requirements

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