Business Analyst - Active Travel England - SEO

Location

York

About the job

Job summary

Can you understand how teams work and map their practices into clear, practical processes?

Do you thrive on solving challenging problems and translating business needs into efficient, scalable solutions?

Have you worked across multi-disciplinary teams to understand challenges, design better ways of working and to deliver smarter, more effective services?

If so, we’d love to hear from you!

Active Travel England (ATE) is seeking a skilled Business Analyst to help shape its digital products and services. As a trusted process expert, you’ll shape requirements, align stakeholders and ensuring we deliver the right outcomes at the right time. You’ll bring structure, insight and analytical rigour to ensure our solutions are grounded in evidence and aligned to organisational priorities.

Joining our department comes with many benefits, including:

• Employer pension contribution of 28.97% of your salary. Read more about Civil Service Pensions here
• 25 days annual leave, increasing by 1 day each year of service (up to a maximum of 30 days annual leave), plus 8 bank holidays a privilege day for the King’s birthday
• Flexible working options where we encourage a great work-life balance.

Read more in the Benefits section below!

Find out more about what it's like working at Active Travel England

Job description

Active Travel England are looking for two Business Analysts to be enthusiastic and motivated members of a talented technical team. In this role, you’ll bring structure to ambiguity and champion a culture of process mapping that drives clarity, collaboration and continuous improvement.

Your responsibilities will include, but aren’t limited to:

• Translate business needs into actionable requirements, including user stories, process maps, data flows and acceptance criteria.
• Contribute to agile ceremonies, backlog refinement, sprint planning and retros.
• Ensure business analysis work adheres to GDS standards and supports service assessments.
• Own stakeholder relationships at senior levels; develop and maintain a strategic view of the business and policy context and how business analysis activities contribute to it.
• Role model positive behaviours and support the embedding of the new target operating model and the changes to the ways of working.
• Set the standards and expectations for your profession across ATE and engage and align with the wider DfT Group.

For further information on the role, please read the attached role profile. Please note that the role profile is for information purposes only - whilst all elements are relevant to the role, they may not all be assessed during the recruitment process. This job advert will detail exactly what will be assessed during the recruitment process.

Person specification

We’re looking for a confident, resilient and inclusive Business Analyst who is focussed on delivering value through continually learning and adapting. The essential criteria are:

• Demonstrable experience in facilitating the delivery of multiple successful digital products and services
• Demonstrable experience of analysing and documenting existing business processes and associated qualitative and quantitative information
• Demonstrable experience of redesigning business processes to make them more efficient and effective
• Demonstrate the ability to communicate effectively across organisational, technical and non-technical audience

Required experience:

To be successful in this role you will need to have experience of:

• Agile working, ceremonies and processes
• Working on business improvements and resolution of live issues
• Mapping business processes and systems modelling
• Management of stakeholders
• Documentation of requirements for use during development and also reference material after implementation
• Discussing requirements with user groups to establish deliverables
• Coaching and mentoring others