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We create digital services, data tools and technology for businesses to prosper around the world.
Our Digital, Data and Technology team develops and operates tools, services and platforms that enable the UK government to provide world'leading support to businesses in the UK and overseas.
You'll get to constantly push boundaries in an environment free of heavy legacy, driven by curiosity, social purpose, diversity of thought, entrepreneurship and the aspiration to offer an incredible experience to all our users.
Job Description
Let us tell you a little bit about the role...
Senior Business Analysts at DIT identify and draw upon multiple forms of evidence to shape, define, document, and analyse challenging business problems and user needs. They're required to lead on mapping how these user and organisational needs align with the business architecture and ensure alignment with the service vision and business strategy. Within DDaT, we encourage our Senior Business Analysts to challenge constructively and act as a critical friend to achieve solutions that are fit for purpose, while facilitating collaboration and leading effective communication with all stakeholders.
We're looking for Senior Business Analysts to support our DDaT products and services, in line with the Department's priorities of facilitating trade, promoting inward investment and exports, and the wider agenda for a Global Britain. Senior Business Analysts work across a portfolio of products, helping their teams to deliver in line with the strategy and in sync with one another.?
As a Senior BA, you will line manage more junior business analysts, providing advice and direction on their activities and supporting them to develop their skills and experience.
Responsibilities
What we're looking for from you...
You will be an experienced Business Analyst who can:
Lead on the analysis of business requirements and user needs related to all aspects of the service(s) you are supporting.?
Work with the relevant Service Owner, Product Manager and Delivery Manager to assess how these should inform the team's activities.?
Lead on business process analysis and re-engineering where applicable and write and edit the relevant documentation.?
Articulate business and user problems, identifying opportunities and ways to address these problems and providing recommendations.
Apply proven communication, analytical, and problem-solving skills to ensure that the team's objectives are achieved.
Work as part of multi-disciplinary teams to deliver solutions and ensure they are sufficiently tested and meet business and user needs
Essential Skills and Experience:
You will have demonstrable skills and experience of:
Agile Working Skills: You apply agile methodology to your work and can help the team decide the best approach
Business Analysis: You can advise on the best business analysis approaches to investigate and assess complex business problems
Requirements Definition & Management: You can advise on the approach to requirements definition and management for complex change initiatives and ensure requirements traceability throughout their lifecycle.
Stakeholder Management: You can communicate with stakeholders at all levels, focusing on user and business needs.
Process Management: You can lead on modelling business processes at all levels of complexity, including use of systems analysis, and identify opportunities to improve business performance.
Ways of Working: You can collaborate effectively with other DDaT professions and assess the effect of proposed solutions on users
Desirable Skills and Experience
This is not necessary but would be ideal if you
Have worked in a Government digital team
Have experience of working at portfolio level or across multiple products
How to Apply
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The Department for International Trade embraces and values diversity in all forms. We welcome and pride ourselves on the positive impact diversity has on the work we do, and we promote equality of opportunity throughout the organisation. As such, we run a Disability Confident Scheme (DCS) for candidates with disabilities who meet the minimum selection criteria. Click through to apply and find out more.
Technical Skills
We'll assess you against these technical skills during the selection process:
Agile working
Business Analysis
Business Modelling
Business Process Improvement
Requirement Definition and Management
Stakeholder Relationship Management
Systems analysis
User experience analysis
Behaviours
We will assess you against the following behaviours:
Changing and Improving
Communicating and Influencing
Seeing the Big Picture
Making effective decisions
Delivering at Pace
Further Information
Find out about our benefits, application process and practical details like our office locations on the things you need to know page. Remember to check out our blog, Digital Trade.
Closing Date for Apps: 30/11/2022 at 12pm