Senior Business Analyst (Inside IR35)
Contract Term: 12 Months
Contracting Authority: DWP
Location: Blackpool/Manchester/Leeds/Hybrid
The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) is responsible for welfare, pensions, and child maintenance policy. As the UK s biggest public service department, it administers the State Pension and a range of working age, disability and ill health benefits to around 20 million claimants and customers. As such, we operate on a scale that is almost unmatched anywhere in Europe and most people in Britain come into contact with us at some point in their lives.
Working with DWP, you will be helping us to drive our priorities to:
- Run an effective welfare system that enables people to achieve financial independence by providing assistance and guidance into employment
- Increase saving for, and security in later life
- Create a fair and affordable welfare system which improves the life chances of children
- Deliver outstanding services to our customers and claimants
- Deliver efficiently: transform the way we deliver our services to reduce costs and increase productivity
As a Senior Business Analyst your main responsibilities will be:
- Encourage and promote Agile methodologies across functions, setting standards across the function and ensuring these standards and methodologies are followed. Work to educate the BA teams working across the functions on Agile principles, methods and tools to support their development.
- products or services simultaneously. Additionally, manage other BAs within the functional area by quality assuring on the work produced.
- Lead workshops, interviews, focus groups and other techniques to effectively understand business problems and user needs within large complex products or services.
- Translate the business problem and user needs into a set of detailed requirements for the solution that align to best practice methodology, with the appropriate use of epics, features, user stories and defined acceptance criteria.
- Manage senior stakeholder relationships, ensuring alignment across business and technical stakeholders. Ensure issues and risks raised are resolved in an appropriate manner. Operate beyond the product/ service level, managing stakeholders across the organisation.
- Define test scenarios and conditions for use throughout the test cycle of each sprint and work with testers and developers to identify defects & resolutions and clarify any existing ambiguity.
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You ll have relevant experience in:
- Able to identify and compare the best processes or delivery methods to use, including measuring and evaluating outcomes. Able to recognise when something does not work and encourages a mind-set of experimentation. Can adapt and reflect, is resilient and has the ability to see outside of the process. Able to use a blended approach depending on the context. Able to help teams to manage and visualise outcomes, prioritise work and work to agreed minimum viable product (MVP)
- Responsible for investigative work into problems and opportunities in existing and new services. Drives the analysis and collection of information and creation of to create recommendations for service improvements. Analyses large amounts of complex information and uses it to produce solutions.
- Sets strategy and manages resource allocation for solution development programmes. Liaises with client functions to establish business requirements and identifies, proposes, initiates and leads these programmes.
- Influences stakeholders and manages relationships effectively. Builds long term strategic relationships. Facilitates and delivers the business outcomes.
- Possesses good understanding and experience of established business analysis tools and techniques.
- Can undertake cross-cutting analysis across numerous feature/product teams to identify gaps, potential duplication, waste, conflicts and to form clear joined up recommendations.
- Have a deep understanding of Agile approaches and principles, encourages business analysts to play key role in multi-disciplinary teams.
- Experienced in coaching, mentoring, peer reviews, providing a friendly ear, creating opportunities, identifying areas for development and more.
- Can demonstrate advocating for the business analysis profession promoting what it is, demonstrating how it add values and how the role works with others.
- Confident in selecting appropriate Business Analysis techniques and tailoring them to meet the needs of what you re working on.
- Can demonstrate critical thinking ensuring the business problems are understood, not being afraid to ask difficult questions.
- Experienced in identifying and building relationships at all levels of the organisation.
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If this role sounds like something that you would be interested in, please click the link to apply or get in touch with Akanksha.rai@publicsectorresourcing.co.uk
Disability confident
As a member of the disability confident scheme, DWP guarantees to interview all candidates who have a disability and who meet all the essential criteria for the vacancy. In cases where we have a high volume of candidates who have a disability who meet all the essential criteria, we will interview the best candidates from within that group.
If you qualify for the above, please notify us on PSRapplications@publicsectorresourcing.co.uk.
We will be in touch to discuss your suitability and arrange your Guaranteed Interview.
Should you require reasonable adjustments at any point during the recruitment process or if there is a more accessible way for us to communicate, please do let me know.
In applying for this role, you acknowledge the following, this role falls in scope of the Off Payroll Working in the Public Sector legislation. Any rates of payment quoted will reflect the gross rate per day for the assignment and will be subject to appropriate taxes and statutory costs. As such the payment to the intermediary and your income resulting from this contract will be different.
Please be aware that this role can only be worked within the UK and not Overseas.
