Business Analyst
| Posting date: | 05 August 2025 |
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| Salary: | £42,614 to £45,081 per year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 13 August 2025 |
| Location: | S3 7UF |
| Company: | Government Recruitment Service |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 418624/6 |
Summary
Are you an experienced Business Analyst with strong analytical and communication skills?
This could be the job for you!
As an experienced Business Analyst (BA), you will be a key part of the team in delivering change within the Department.
We have vacancies in a number of areas within DWP Digital including our Payments, Digital Channels, Hybrid Cloud and Bereavement & Care teams.
You will work across the product delivery lifecycle to bring together business needs with technical capabilities, with the goal of defining solutions that deliver value.
You will be given the opportunity to continue to grow your capabilities through working with Senior and Lead BAs and continually growing your skills and knowledge through the support of the wider community of practice, additionally you may be, at times, responsible for managing Associate or Apprentice BAs to develop your management and coaching skills.
As a BA working within DWP Digital these are some of the things you will be doing:
- You will be working within a transformational multi-disciplinary team (User Researchers, Developers, QAs etc.) utilising agile methodologies.
- You will translate business problems and user needs into a set of detailed requirements to deliver value and great outcomes for our users.
- You will lead workshops, interviews, focus groups and utilise other techniques to effectively understand the business problems and user needs.
- You will develop and maintain stakeholder relationships. communicating effectively across both technical and business stakeholders and ensuring the understanding of requirements and acceptance criteria is aligned.
- You will gain a good understanding of the business processes and activities that impact and that are impacted by the product or service. Selecting the appropriate best practice techniques to model business processes, in order to identify potential process improvements.
- You will collaborate with the Product Owner to agree a suitable mix of epics, features & stories for each sprint, as well as contributing towards prioritisation activities.
- You will take ownership for improving your own knowledge of Business Analysis and Agile principles, methods and tools and play an active role within the BA community including coaching and supporting other members, as appropriate.
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