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Scottish Government

Senior Business Analyst

Id Job: 3172344

🏢 On-site
💼 Scottish Government
📍 Aberdeen, Scotland
🕒 Today
💰 33450 – 41790 GBP ANNUAL

Job Description

Overview:
The Corporate Services Directorate within Food Standards Scotland (FSS) provides a range of services to support the organisation to deliver its statutory
obligations and strategic goals. These services include Project Management Office,
Finance, HR, IT, Records and Information Management, Facilities Management, Health and Safety, and Administrative support. Most of the Corporate Services work relates to the strategic outcome of FSS being efficient and effective.

FSS has an established central IT team that currently is responsible for providing and supporting all aspects of Information Technology and Digital Transformation.

Please note this is a Fixed Term Appointment ending March 2024.

Reporting to the Head of Digital Solutions, the Senior Business Analyst (Digital Solutions) is responsible for engaging with representatives throughout the organisation in order to understand business operations and identify opportunities for improvement.

The work of the Senior Business Analyst will involve building an understanding of business processes and their context, and to apply a degree of technical knowledge to translate these into potential digital solutions.

The Senior Business Analyst (Digital Solutions) is a dynamic role, which requires the post holder to facilitate collaboration and lead effective communication with key stakeholders to support design, build and delivery of digital solutions to meet the user needs. The successful candidate will be pro-active, flexible, responsive to change, and possess the ability to build and maintain relationships with key stakeholders in technical and business environments.

This post attracts a £5,000 DDAT pay supplement after a 3 months DDaT competency qualifying period. Pay supplements are temporary payments designed to address recruitment and retention issues caused by market pressures and are subject to regular review.
Responsibilities:
  • Champion and lead on business and technology alignment efforts;
  • Provide Business Analysis products such as business process mapping, impact analysis and benefits assessment;
  • Work closely with digital colleagues to define a delivery approach that will meet customer needs;
  • Support in producing digital solution materials, e.g. using business and user requirements to produce technical specifications, or business benefit analysis in support of business cases;
  • Using digital subject matter knowledge to investigate, and define operational needs, and identify potential options for enhanced outcomes;
  • Working closely with technical colleagues to produce “proof of concept” solutions;
  • Monitoring technical changes and advancements for any impact on existing practices, e.g. where a new system may allow for new solutions to know problems;
  • Build and maintain an understanding of Food Standards Scotland business processes, helping to explore where technology can be used to improve operations.

Competencies

All roles in the Digital, Data and Technology profession are aligned to the DDaT Competency Framework (https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/digital-data-and-technology-profession-capability-framework). This role is aligned to DDaT Job Role in the 'Technical' job family.

If you are selected to attend an assessment, we will ask you to complete a technical assessment and an interview as part of the processes. You will be tested against the technical competencies appropriate for the role as detailed on the framework, as well as the Skills for Success competencies listed below.

Improving Performance
Analysis and Use of Evidence
Communications and Engagement
People Management
Essential Criteria & Qualifications:
No specific qualifications required for this post.

Essential Criteria

1. A solid track record of business analysis in a digital/ICT project environment.
2. Knowledge and use of techniques, and practices including writing business cases, carrying out as-is and to-be process analysis, documenting technical and non-technical requirements.
3. Excellent relationship management skills across technical and business streams, along with experience of running and facilitating workshops.
4. Experience of working within an Agile, multi-disciplinary team environment, and the ability to deliver iterative design components (including user journeys) to the development team.

Provisional Interview Dates

To be confirmed.

Additional Information

How To Apply

For further information on this vacancy please download and review the “Person Specification” which you will find below.

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To apply, you must fully complete and submit an online application via this website before the closing date as well as a CV (no longer than two pages) setting out your career history, with key responsibilities and achievements.

In addition to your CV, you should fill in a personal statement (no longer than 700 words) explaining why you consider your personal skills, qualities and experience suitable for this role, with particular reference to the criteria in the person specification.

When considering how your experience relates to the role, please tailor your CV and personal statement to reflect the role and the essential skills/criteria as described in the job description/person specification.

To learn more about this opportunity, please contact [email protected]

The Scottish Government is a diverse and inclusive workplace and we want to help you demonstrate your full potential whatever type of assessment is used. If you require any adjustments to our recruitment process, please let us know via
[email protected]

As part of any recruitment process, Scottish Government and associated public bodies collects and processes personal data relating to job applicants and applicants for public appointments.

Personal information you provide in the recruitment process will be made available to Scottish Government and our additional data processors.

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