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Senior Business Analyst

Job details
Posting date: 15 January 2025
Salary: £55,557 to £66,058 per year
Hours: Full time
Closing date: 27 January 2025
Location: NE98 1YX
Company: Government Recruitment Service
Job type: Permanent
Job reference: 385458/1

Summary

Would you enjoy working within a multidisciplinary team that delivers transformational services across DWP and making a difference to millions of people’s lives?

Are you a skilled & experienced Senior Business Analyst, and able to work with a wide range of stakeholders?

If so, come and join our community of over 250 Business Analysts:

As a Senior BA within DWP Digital you will lead business analysis activities across a number of teams or a complex area of work in the delivery of service improvements.

You will use your experience of delivery methodologies, translating business and user needs into deliverables working collaboratively to define and achieve value outcomes.

You will work with senior business and project stakeholders and will facilitate the setting of project priorities in line with strategic and business goals.

You will be a leading figure within the BA community and will play an instrumental role in our active & dynamic Community of Practice.

You will be encouraged to continually grow your management capabilities and will support colleagues to take responsibility for their own learning and development in line with business needs and strategic direction.

As a Senior BA working within DWP Digital these are some of the things you will be doing: 

  • Work on large, complex products or services, or across a number of products or services simultaneously.
  • Lead workshops, interviews and focus groups to effectively understand business problems and user needs within large complex products or services. 
  • You will communicate effectively across senior technical and business stakeholders, ensuring the understanding of requirements and acceptance criteria is aligned.  
  • You will 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 of the department.  
  • Lead Business Analyst activities and initiatives and will champion continual learning & development within the Business Analyst community.  
  • You will be a leading member of the Business Analyst community, taking on leadership and line management responsibilities of Business Analyst’s. Additionally, you will play a significant role in capability building and recruitment when required.
  • Encourage and promote our delivery methodologies, setting standards across the function and working to educate the BA teams working across the functions on principles, methods and tools to support their development. 

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