Senior Business Analyst Department for Work & Pensions
Reference
40722
Number of vacancies
3
Location
Blackpool, Leeds, Manchester
Salary
£47,971 - Up to £58,135
Work hours
37
Employment type
Permanent
Job benefits
A brilliant Civil Service pension with employer contributions circa 27%, generous annual leave, flexible working, great work life balance and lots more.
Closing date
9 March 2020
Job description
If you’re creative and skilled, want to be empowered to make decisions and challenge the norm, and want to bring BIG ideas to a MASSIVE digital challenge then you’ll love it here. And we’d love to hear from you.
We’re looking for Senior Business Analysts to join DWP, the UK’s largest government department, and become a key part of one of the UK’s biggest and most high-profile digital transformation programmes. We deliver services to millions of people every day, including your family, friends, neighbours and some of the most vulnerable people in our society.
In this role you will continue to grow your management skills, leading a team of Business Analysts and potentially others, managing relationships with senior stakeholders and becoming a leading figure within the Business Analyst community. As an active member of a multi-disciplinary delivery team you’ll be able to put your vast business analysis experience and skills to test working on some of the largest digital products and services out there.
You and your role
As a Senior Business Analyst, You’ll be working with digital experts as part of a multi-disciplinary team delivering change that makes a real difference to millions of citizens lives across the country.
You’ll need be comfortable in line managing and developing other Business Analyst, sharing your skills and knowledge, in order to deliver high quality analysis outcomes. You will have the opportunity to represent the BA practice externally, within the DWP and across government and also to the wider BA community.
What are we looking for?
• You can translate the business problem and user needs into a set of detailed requirements for the solution that align to best practice methodology, with the appropriate use of epics, features, user stories and defined acceptance criteria.
• You can elicit requirements using a range of techniques including stakeholder interviews, workshops, use cases and document analysis in order to understand current processes and gather new requirements.
• You have a good understanding of modelling and analysis tools, methods and standards and know when to use them.
• You can lead workshops, interviews, focus groups and other techniques to effectively understand business problems and user needs within large complex projects.
• You can encourage and promote Agile methodologies across functions, setting standards across the function and ensuring these standards and methodologies are followed.
• You have the capability and credibility to be one of the leading figure within the BA Community, taking on line management responsibilities and playing significant role in recruitment and performance assessment activities.
• As a strong communicator you are able to build long-term strategic, collaborative relationships with stakeholders of all levels, and negotiate and influence commercial and technical decisions.
Where You’ll Work
You’ll join us in our easy-to-reach digital hub in Blackpool,Leeds or Manchester. We provide our teams with the latest tech and tooling, and foster a collaborative culture to help our agile, multidisciplinary teams think big and try new things.
Find out more about our hubs here: https://careers.dwp.gov.uk/our-locations/
We are an equal opportunity employer and we welcome applications regardless of age, gender, race or sexuality.
Our Offer
In return for your skills we offer competitive salary up to £58,135 and a brilliant civil service pension, and a generous leave package.
We also have a broad benefits package built around your work-life balance which includes:
• Family friendly policies
• Flexible working
• Volunteering and charitable giving
• Discounts and savings on shopping, fun days out and more
• Interest-free loans to buy a bike or a season ticket, so it’s even easier for you to get to work and start making a difference
• Sports and social activities
• Learning, development, coaching and mentoring
• Career pathways and progression
• And lots more
HOW TO APPLY: Click apply for more information and to start an application via Civil Service Jobs.
For any queries, reach out to Suchitra.govindarajul@dwp.gov.uk