Job Description
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 to support the design, build and delivery of products and services that meet user needs.
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 Business Analyst (BA) you will be working with several teams across multiple complex, fast-moving, and innovative projects. Your role will be to lead the business analysis and make sure product decisions are based on a sound business analysis by working closely with service owners, and product and delivery teams.
You will support the Head of Profession to build a sustainable, diverse, and engaged Business Analyst community within DIT who work together towards a common goal and share ideas openly, establishing standards and consistency to support rapid delivery through sharing and learning from 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.
Job description
- 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 plans and 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.
This role is available in three UK locations, including central London, Cardiff, and Darlington’s new economic hub. This role can only be worked from within the UK and not overseas. Most DIT employees will be working a hybrid pattern, spending 2-3 days a week (pro rata) in the office on average. Changes to these working arrangements are available in certain circumstances, but must be agreed with the vacancy manager and in line with the requirements of the role. Travel to your primary office location will not be paid for by DIT, but costs for travel to an office which is not your main location will be covered.
Person specification
Essential Skills and Experience
- 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 and opportunities and inform both tactical decision making and strategic plans.
- 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. You can coordinate and review the prioritisation of requirements and engage in the negotiation of solutions to help meet business objectives and user needs
- Stakeholder Management: You can communicate with stakeholders at all levels, focusing on user and business needs. You can develop or apply communication strategies to build relationships and work to resolve conflict where required
- 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. You can lead the analysis, design, prioritisation and implementation of process changes, and support business process testing and usability evaluations.
- Ways of Working: You can collaborate effectively with other DDaT professions within a multi-disciplinary delivery team and assess the effect of proposed solutions on users
Desirable Skills and Experience
- Have worked in a Government digital team
- Have experience of working at portfolio level or across multiple products
Benefits
- Learning and development tailored to your role
- An environment with flexible working options
- A culture encouraging inclusion and diversity
- A Civil Service pensionwith an average employer contribution of 27%
Things you need to know
Selection process details
Feedback will only be provided if you attend an interview or assessment.This vacancy is using Success Profiles, and will assess your technical skills and behaviours.Unless otherwise specified, all interviews are currently being held online. Please ensure that you check your emails regularly as all updates from us will be sent to you this way.Sift will take place week commencing: 6th February 2023Interviews will take place week commencing: 20th February 2023Please notes these dates are indicative and may be subject to change.As part of the application processyou will be asked to upload a CV and complete a personal statement outlining your experience, skills and fit for the role.At the sift stage for this role, we will assess you against the essential criteria listed above. For your personal statement you must write less than 750 words and can use bullet points and subheadings if you prefer. As well as evidencing the criteria you should also touch upon why you're interested in DIT, and in this particular role.
If we receive a high volume of applications, we will conduct a ‘short sift’ and read one element of your application. For this campaign a short sift would be conducted based on CV only.How you’ll be assessedAt the interview stagefor this role, you will be asked to demonstrate relevant technical skills and behavioursfrom the Success Profilesframework. A role-specific list of these can be found below.Salary is determined by performance at interview, within the range advertised. Candidates moving from another government department will be subject to pay principles and may have the option to retain their current salary.Applicants invited to interview will be asked to deliver a presentation and will be informed of the topic following the sift.Technical Skills
There will be a technical element within the interview where you will be asked questions about your specific professional skills and knowledge relating directly to the job role.
We will assess you against the following technical skills:Agile working
Business Analysis
Business Modelling
Business Process Improvement
Requirement Definition and Management
Stakeholder Relationship Management
Systems analysis
User experience analysis
Detailed explanations of each technical skill can be found on the DDaT Framework.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
Appointments may be made to candidates in merit order based on location preferences. Candidates who pass the bar at interview but are not the highest scoring will be held on a 12-month reserve list for future appointments. Candidates who are judged to be a near miss at interview may be offered a post at the grade below the one advertised.If successful and transferring from another Government Department a criminal record check may be carried out.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.Harmonised terms and conditions are attached. Please take time to read the document to determine how these may affect you.Please note – the successful candidate will be expected to remain in post for a minimum of 18 months before being released for another role.Any move to the Department for International Trade from another employer will mean you can no longer access childcare vouchers. This includes moves between government departments. You may however be eligible for other government schemes, including Tax Free Childcare. Determine your eligibility athttps://www.childcarechoices.gov.ukNew entrants are expected to join on the minimum of the pay band.
Reasonable adjustment
If a person with disabilities is put at a substantial disadvantage compared to a non-disabled person, we have a duty to make reasonable changes to our processes.If you need a change to be made so that you can make your application, you should contact the DDaT Recruitment team before the closing date to discuss your needs.Our recruitment process is underpinned by the principle of appointment on the basis of fair and open competition and appointment on merit, as outlined in the Civil Service Commissioners’ Recruitment Principles.If you feel your application has not been treated in accordance with these principles and you wish to make a complaint, you should in the first instance contact DIT by email: (See complete description on Civil Service Jobs) If you are not satisfied with the response you receive from the Department, you can contact the Civil Service Commission:Click hereto visit Civil Service Commission.If you are experiencing accessibility problems with any attachments on this advert, please contact the email address in the 'Contact point for applicants' section.For further information and to apply please click the link to direct you to the advertisers website.
Security Clearance Details
These roles require SC clearance. The requirement for SC clearance is to have been present in the UK for at least 3 of the last 5 years. If asked to undergo SC clearance, you’ll be asked to provide evidence of your UK footprint where you have been physically present in the UK. Failure to meet the residency requirements will result in your security clearance application being rejected.If you require SC clearance you will need to provide evidence of the below requirements.Checks will be made against:Departmental or company records (personnel files, staff reports, sick leave reports and security records).
UK criminal records covering both spent and unspent criminal records.
Your credit and financial history with a credit reference agency.
Security Services record.
Location Details
Security
Successful candidates must pass a disclosure and barring security check.
Successful candidates must meet the security requirements before they can be appointed. The level of security needed is security check.
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People working with government assets must complete basic personnel security standardchecks.
Nationality requirements
Further information on nationality requirementsThis job is broadly open to the following groups:UK nationals
nationals of Commonwealth countries who have the right to work in the UK
nationals of the Republic of Ireland
nationals from the EU, EEA or Switzerland with settled or pre-settled status or who apply for either status by the deadline of the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS)
relevant EU, EEA, Swiss or Turkish nationals working in the Civil Service
relevant EU, EEA, Swiss or Turkish nationals who have built up the right to work in the Civil Service
certain family members of the relevant EU, EEA, Swiss or Turkish nationals
Working for the Civil Service
The Civil Service Codesets out the standards of behaviour expected of civil servants.
We recruit by merit on the basis of fair and open competition, as outlined in the Civil Service Commission's recruitment principles.
The Civil Service embraces diversity and promotes equal opportunities. As such, we run a Disability Confident Scheme (DCS) for candidates with disabilities who meet the minimum selection criteria.
The Civil Service also offers a Redeployment Interview Scheme to civil servants who are at risk of redundancy, and who meet the minimum requirements for the advertised vacancy.
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Further information
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Job Types: Full-time, Part-time, Permanent
Part-time hours: 15-37 per week
Salary: £48,981.00-£58,000.00 per year
Benefits:
- Casual dress
- Company pension
- Cycle to work scheme
- Flexitime
- Life insurance
- Sick pay
- Work from home
Schedule:
Work Location: Hybrid remote in Central Square, CF10 1EP
Reference ID: 264590
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