Senior Business Analyst -(Ref:88696) Ministry of Justice-G7
Government Digital & Data -
Senior Business Analyst (Ref:88696)
Ministry of Justice
Apply before 11:55 pm on Tuesday 23rd July 2024
Details
Reference number
361126
Salary
£54,358 - £66,670
The national salary range is £54,358 - £61,585, London salary range is £58,847 - £66,670. Your salary will be dependent on your base location. National: £54358 - £61585 (which may include an allowance of up to £2517). London: £58847 - £66670 (which may include an allowance of up to £4828).
A Civil Service Pension with an average employer contribution of 27%
Job grade
Grade 7
Grade 7
Contract type
Permanent
Type of role
Digital
Working pattern
Flexible working, Full-time, Job share, Part-time
Number of jobs available
3
Contents
Location
East Midlands (England), East of England, London (region), North East England, North West England, Scotland, South East England, South West England, Wales, West Midlands (England), Yorkshire and the Humber
About the job
Job summary
This position is based nationally
Job description
Senior Business Analyst
Location: National*
Closing Date: 23rd July
Interviews: W/C 12th August (subject to change)
Grade: G7
(MoJ candidates who are on a specialist grade, will be able to retain this grade on lateral transfer)
Salary: National: £54358 - £61585 (which may include an allowance of up to £2517). London: £58847 - £66670 (which may include an allowance of up to £4828).
Working pattern: Full-time, part-time, flexible working, job share.
Contract Type: Permanent.
Vacancy number: 88696
*We offer a hybrid working model, allowing for a balance between remote work and time spent in your local office. Office locations can be found ON THIS MAP
The Role
We’re recruiting for a Senior Business Analyst here at Justice Digital, to be part of our warm and collaborative Technical Services Delivery team.
This role aligns against Senior Business Analyst from the Government Digital and Data Framework.
We’re looking for talented and tenacious Senior Business Analysts to join our team, to support us in creating world-class services in the justice system. We use a mixture of both agile software development and waterfall approaches, to make meaningful improvements to public services, that live up to the unique challenges of MOJ's responsibility to society.
Senior Business Analysts:
Make sure outcomes are aligned with service vision and business strategy, by joining up the dots across multiple delivery teams, while advocating a "just enough" approach to iterative analysis over the perfect artefact. Senior BAs challenge constructively and act as a critical friend to achieve solutions that are fit for purpose, collaborating and leading effective communication with stakeholders to support design, build and delivery to meet business needs.
A Senior Business Analyst has a good understanding of strategic arenas and leads large or complex projects. Passionate about business analysis, they contribute to the development of best practice and lead activities for their community of practice. They have excellent interpersonal skills, and are experienced in working with a diverse range of stakeholders, who may be vulnerable or working in challenging environments.
They have experience as a coach of others and are able to support peers and less experienced colleagues to develop their knowledge, confidence and skills.
To help picture your life at MoJ Justice Digital please take a look at our blog and our Digital and Technology strategy 2025
Key Responsibilities:
Apply and promote business analysis in a functional area or service
Work with stakeholders to understand their perspectives, needs, processes, and constraints in order to facilitate effective and efficient business process change
Understand the business processes and activities that impact and that are impacted by the product or service whilst developing an understanding of how the product or service aligns with the wider strategy
Own analysis and contribute to the definition of precise problems for investigation
Collaborate with service teams to formulate hypotheses to test in service design phases
Contribute to agile methodologies across functions, setting standards across the function and ensuring these standards and methodologies are followed. Have experience of working in Agile, Waterfall and Hybrid delivery approaches, with the confidence to advise on the most appropriate approach and to coach other Business Analysts in their use.
Work with Service Owners and Delivery Managers to ensure requirements are effectively scoped, split and prioritised
Take responsibility for the quality and accuracy of requirements and user stories for the service
Work in collaboration with multi-disciplinary teams including business and technical colleagues to develop maps of relevant problem spaces and end to end journeys.
Understand and analyse the business domain by developing models to articulate the data needs
Contribute to the definition of success metrics and support mechanisms for monitoring data through the life cycles of services
Take ownership of reviewing the fit of services into existing business context and the identification of business changes required to support the services
Contribute as an experienced practitioner and mentor within the wider Business Analyst community, taking on line management responsibilities for BAs. Additionally, play a significant role in recruitment & performance assessment activities
If this feels like an exciting challenge, something you are enthusiastic about, and want to join our team please read on and apply!
Person Specification
Essential criteria
Business analysis skills:
Extensive experience as a BA with a wide variety of business analysis tools and techniques and can demonstrate how you have applied these
Demonstrable stakeholder management skills and ability to clearly communicate findings and outputs in digestible formats for a range of stakeholders
Experience of conducting in-depth analyses of services and processes, and working with teams to identify and implement opportunities to optimise them
Ability to identify and analyse problems and issues that may affect the successful adoption of digital services
