UK Security Vetting Senior Business Analyst

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This is a unique and exciting time to join UK Security Vetting. You will be at the forefront of building a new, dynamic and innovative Digital & Technology team to support the organisation. UK Security Vetting are currently undertaking an exciting Digital Transformation Programme, with the key outcome being the creation of our Future Vetting platform. To support this we are creating brand new multi-disciplinary product teams who will own, iterate and improve our new suite of products. These teams will build modern, digital products and services that meet user needs, to support the future of UK Security Vetting.

Job Description

A Senior Business Analyst has a good understanding of strategic arenas and leads large and complex projects.

At This Level, You Will

• Have functional and / or people management responsibilities
• Coach and mentor others
• Develop best practice
• Own stakeholder relationships
• Manage communities-of-practice activities (internally and across government)
  

Person Specification

Responsibilities

You will be an experienced Senior Business Analyst who is an effective communicator, whether that is presenting and translating technical information to non-technical people, or non-technical requirements to technical people. This role calls for excellent interpersonal skills and the ability to understand project requirements and issues from different stakeholder perspectives.

The successful candidate will have proven skills in: applying thinking; gathering and analysing information using comprehensive tools and techniques; using data to formulate both short and longer term strategic plans; and ensuring that the business solution aligns with the vision, mission and objectives of the business.

We are looking for someone who can understand the importance of agile project delivery across digital projects in government and investigate, analyse, visualise and articulate opportunities for improvement.

Experience

• Agile working. You can identify and compare the best processes or delivery methods to use, including measuring and evaluating outcomes. You know how to help the team to decide the best approach. You can help teams to manage and visualise outcomes, prioritise work and work to agreed minimum viable product (MVP), print and scope. (Relevant skill level: practitioner)
• Business analysis. You can take responsibility for investigative work into problems and opportunities in existing and new services. You know how to drive the analysis and collection of information to create recommendations for service improvements. You can analyse large amounts of complex information and use it to produce solutions. (Relevant skill level: practitioner)
• Business improvement process. You know how to analyse current services and processes, and can identify and implement opportunities to optimise these. You can help to evaluate and establish requirements using relevant techniques such as gap analysis. (Relevant skill level: practitioner)
• Business modelling. You can model more advanced and complex situations across more than one business function or programme. You know how to gather insight from senior stakeholders and communicate modelling results clearly to them. (Relevant skill level: practitioner)
• Business process testing. You can take responsibility for the creation of test cases. You can create traceability records, from test cases back to requirements. (Relevant skill level: practitioner)
• Digital perspective. You have the ability to apply a digital understanding to your work. You can identify and implement solutions for assisted digital. (Relevant skill level: practitioner)anage communities-of-practice activities (internally and across government).
• Enterprise and business architecture. You can contribute to the creation and maintenance of the target operating model and identify the impact on operational service. (Relevant skill level: practitioner)
• Innovation. You can lead others to innovate in their work as well as enabling them to innovate on their own.. (Relevant skill level: practitioner)
• Methods and tools. You know how to ensure that teams are using the right tools and methodologies and promote their use. (Relevant skill level: practitioner)
• Requirements definition and management. You can facilitate the setting of business priorities for change initiatives of high complexity. You know how to lead on requirements analysis and take responsibility for the investigation and implementation of changes to programme scope. (Relevant skill level: practitioner)
• Stakeholder relationship management. You can influence stakeholders and manage relationships effectively. You know how to build long-term strategic relationships and communicate clearly and regularly with stakeholders. (Relevant skill level: practitioner)
• Testing (business analysis). You can define test condition requirements. You know how to work according to test plans to design, interpret and execute them. You can highlight reports and risks and analyse results based on tests and activities. (Relevant skill level: practitioner)
• User focus. You know how to collaborate with user researchers and can represent users internally. You understand the difference between user needs and the desires of the user. You can champion user research to focus on all users. You can prioritise and define approaches to understand the user story, guiding others in doing so. You can offer recommendations on the best tools and methods to be used. (Relevant skill level: practitioner)