Senior Business Analyst


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Department for Business & Trade

Listed on

17th November 2022

Location

London

Salary/Rate

£48981 - £58000

Salary Notes

£48,981- £65,600 - London: £52,964 - £65,600 / National £48,981 - £58,000 (including allowance)

Type

Permanent

Start Date

ASAP

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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 

Apply by clicking APPLY NOW.

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  

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