Senior Business Analyst - Maritime and Coastguard Agency - SEO
Government Digital & Data -
Location
Cardiff, Southampton
About the job
Job summary
Can you translate complex business problems into clear, actionable requirements that drive effective digital solutions?
Do you enjoy working with diverse stakeholders to shape services that meet real user and organisational needs?
If so, we’d love to hear from you!
Senior Business Analysts lead the definition of business needs and analytical requirements within the programme of delivering analytical products and curated datasets that support high‑quality insight and decision‑making across the agency.
Operating from within the Agency’s central Data function, they work as part of the Data Insights & Analytics team, collaborating with colleagues to shape and deliver analytical products that support decision‑making across the organisation.
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 and 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!
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Job description
Senior Business Analysts report to the Head of Data Insights and Analytics and lead the definition of business needs, shaping analytical requirements to ensure analytical work is aligned to organisational priorities and delivers clear business value.
Your responsibilities will include, but aren’t limited to:
- Lead the definition and framing of business problems, analysing business processes and logic and translating business needs into structured analytical requirements, business rules and success measures.
- Work in close partnership with Data Analysts to ensure requirements are feasible, unambiguous and aligned with analytical best practice, supporting the development of analytical products that deliver measurable value.
- Engage subject matter experts to validate business logic, operational processes and constraints, ensuring analytical products reflect accurate, trusted business context.
- Work iteratively using Agile ways of working, contributing to the progressive elaboration, prioritisation and refinement of analytical requirements, and supporting incremental delivery of insight in partnership with Data Analysts and stakeholders.
- Work with IT and other relevant stakeholders to support the smooth release and ongoing operation of analytical products, helping ensure appropriate handover, clarity of ownership and effective routes for resolving issues as they arise.
Great line management is important to us as an organisation, and we will equip and support line managers to develop the skills they need. We aim to empower line managers to create teams where people can flourish and deliver excellent outcomes for the public.
For further information on the role, please read the 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
Required experience:
To be successful in this role you will need to have the following experience:
- Applied knowledge of business analysis methods, including requirements elicitation, process mapping and benefits analysis.
- Experience with and enthusiasm for Agile ways of working, including familiarity with DevOps or other delivery or project management tooling.
- Experience working with data, metrics or analytical products, including collaboration with analysts to translate business needs into clear analytical requirements, and familiarity with analytical tools such as Power BI.
- Ability to communicate complex concepts clearly to senior non‑technical stakeholders.
- Assess expected benefits and inform prioritisation of analytical work, contributing to a value focused analytical roadmap.
- Work closely with stakeholders and subject matter experts to validate that analytical products meet agreed business needs, answer the right questions, and are fit for their intended decision‑making purpose.
Additional Information
This post is offered on a Fixed Term Appointment (FTA) basis to complete a finite piece of work, however this may be extended or made permanent.
Permanent Civil Servants will be appointed on an inward loan and subject to the terms of the agreed inward loan. You must have your home departments approval to return to them at the end of the loan before you apply. Internal candidates will return to their previous post at the end of the loan period, which will need to be agreed with your line manager in advance. If your home department cannot agree to release you on loan, there is the opportunity for you to move across to the department on a fixed term appointment. In this instance the Department for Transport would become your home department and if there is no role available for you at the end of this appointment, you would be subject to the redeployment and redundancy process.
If you're employed by a non-departmental public body (NDPB) by moving jobs this will involve a change of employer and you may break the statutory rules on continuity of employment.
Working hours, office attendance and travel requirements
Full time roles consist of 37 hours per week.
Whilst we welcome applications from those looking to work with us on a part time basis, there is a business requirement for the successful candidate to be able to work at least 30 hours per week.
This role is suitable for hybrid working, which is a non-contractual arrangement where a combination of workplace and home-based working can be accommodated subject to business requirements.
The expectation at present is a minimum of 60% of your working time a month will be spent at either your designated workplace (one of the locations cited in the advert) or, when required for business reasons, in another office/work location/visiting stakeholders. Your designated workplace will be your contractual place of work. There may be occasions where you are required to attend above the minimum expectation.
Occasional travel to other offices will be required, which may involve overnight stays.
If you have a question about hybrid working, part time/job share hours, flexible working, travelling for work, or require a reasonable adjustment, please contact the Vacancy Holder during the recruitment process to avoid possible disappointment later in the process should your working arrangements not be compatible with the requirements of the role (see below for contact details).
Visa Sponsorship
Please note that we will only offer sponsorship for a skilled worker visa where a role has been deemed to be business critical. This role does not meet that category, and we will not sponsor a visa. Therefore, this role is not open to applications from those who require sponsorship – candidates must ensure they have the appropriate right to work in the UK before applying. Should you apply for this role and be found to require sponsorship, your application will be rejected and any provisional offer of employment withdrawn.
Security Checks
Successful candidates must undergo a criminal record check.
Successful candidates must meet the security requirements before they can be appointed. The level of security needed is Security Clearance (SC)
See our vetting charter (opens in a new window).
People working with government assets must complete baseline personnel security standard (opens in new window) checks.
