Senior Business Analyst

The Senior Business Analyst will lead on providing business analysis and architectural support for medium complexity change activities and will be responsible for maintaining clearly defined architectural artefacts and viewpoints reflecting business services, products and organisational structural for business areas across DIO. They will also support the Enterprise Architect in the delivery of highly complex projects.

The Senior Business Analyst will lead the development of problem statements, undertake root cause analysis, developing current and future state views and undertake impact assessments and gap analysis. They will work closely with their counterparts across Business Improvement and within technology and data architecture to ensure alignment in approaches and outputs.

This position is advertised at 37 hours per week., The Senior Business Analyst must have a good understanding of the business and how it operates. They will also have an awareness of architecture frameworks (such as TOGAF) and the relationships between artefacts. They will also regularly work with an artefact repository Architecture Modelling tool such as BizzDesign Enterprise Studio and use architecture notation such as ArchiMate. They will understand the business architecture design process and play a key role in the performance of that process by supporting the Enterprise Architect.

The Senior Business Analyst will oversee the planning, administration and running of events and workshops using existing skill sets in stakeholder management, requirement elicitation and business modelling and will also work with the Enterprise Architect to synthesise the outputs following stakeholder engagement events.

At this level, you will be expected to: identify and management stakeholder relationships; work independently; have a good understanding of your own work area; advance the business analyst community through the sharing of best practice and mentoring of others.

Key activities will include:

• Analyse and understand a business problem or opportunity

• Undertake research and analysis to understand how a business or business area works, considering the people, organisation, processes, information, data and technology and how they combine to deliver business services

• Identify areas for improvement, explore feasible options, analyse the effects of change and define success measures

• Apply structured approaches to identify, investigate, analyse and communicate complex business problems and opportunities within a defined project

• Conduct options analysis, assess feasibility and operational impact, quantify potential business benefits and contribute to business case development

• Model various elements of the business with limited direction

• Identify, analyse, monitor and management relationships with and between internal and external stakeholders

• Work under limited supervision to communicate with stakeholders clearly and regularly, clarifying mutual needs and commitments through consultation and consideration of impacts while focusing on user and business needs, We’ll assess you against these behaviours during the selection process:

• Changing and Improving

• Communicating and Influencing

• Leadership

• Managing a Quality Service

• Seeing the Big Picture

Technical skills

We’ll assess you against these technical skills during the selection process:

• Https://ddat-capabilty-framework.service.gov.uk Business Analysis Level:Practitioner, + An environment with flexible working options

• A culture encouraging inclusion and diversity

• A Civil Service pension with an employer contribution of 28.97%

Where business needs allow, some roles may be suitable for a combination of office and home-based working. This is a non-contractual arrangement where all office-based employees will be expected to spend a minimum of 60% of their working time in office, subject to capacity and any required workplace adjustments. Requirements to attend other locations for official business, or work in another MOD office, will also count towards this level of attendance. Applicants can request further information regarding how this may work in their team from the Vacancy Holder (see advert for contact details). Defence Business Services cannot respond to any questions about working arrangements.

The post does not offer relocation expenses.

External recruits who join the MOD who are new to the Civil Service will be subject to a six-month probation period.

Please Note: Expenses incurred for travel to interviews will not be reimbursed.

Please be advised that the Department is conducting a review of all pay related allowances which could impact on those allowances that the post currently being advertised attracts.

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Selection process details

This vacancy is using Success Profiles (opens in a new window), and will assess your Behaviours, Experience and Technical skills.

At application, candidates will be required to provide CV details to provide job history, qualification details and previous skills and experience.

Candidates will be required to provide a statement of suitability (750 word count) – see person specification.

At interview, we ll assess you against the following behaviours/Technical Skills:

• Leadership

• Seeing the Big Picture

• Managing a Quality Service

• Communicating and Influencing

• Changing and Improving

• Government Digital and Data Profession Capability Framework – Business Analysis (Skill level – Working)

The Civil Service embraces diversity and promotes equality of opportunity. There is a Disability Confident Scheme (DCS) for candidates with disabilities who meet the minimum selection criteria. If you need to advise us that you need additional help or reasonable adjustments for the recruitment process, please contact: DBSCivPers-Resourcingteam3@mod.gov.uk .

As a result of the changes to the UK immigration rules which came in to effect on 1 January 2021, the Ministry of Defence will only offer sponsorship for a skilled worker visa under the points based system, where a role has been deemed to be business critical. This role does not meet that category and we will not sponsor a visa. It is therefore NOT open to applications from those who will require sponsorship under the points based system.

Should you apply for this role and be found to require sponsorship, your application will be rejected and any provisional offer of employment withdrawn.

Feedback will only be provided if you attend an interview or assessment.

Security

Successful candidates must undergo a criminal record check.

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Nationality requirements

This job is broadly open to the following groups:

• UK nationals

• nationals of the Republic of Ireland

• nationals of Commonwealth countries who have the right to work in the UK

• nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities with settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS) (opens in a new window)

• nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities who have made a valid application for settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS)

• individuals with limited leave to remain or indefinite leave to remain who were eligible to apply for EUSS on or before 31 December 2020

• Turkish nationals, and certain family members of Turkish nationals, who have accrued the right to work in the Civil Service

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Working for the Civil Service

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We recruit by merit on the basis of fair and open competition, as outlined in the Civil Service Commission’s recruitment principles (opens in a new window).

The Civil Service embraces diversity and promotes equal opportunities. As such, we run a Disability Confident Scheme (DCS) for candidates with disabilities who meet the minimum selection criteria.

The Civil Service also offers a Redeployment Interview Scheme to civil servants who are at risk of redundancy, and who meet the minimum requirements for the advertised vacancy.

Diversity and Inclusion

The Civil Service is committed to attract, retain and invest in talent wherever it is found. To learn more please see the Civil Service People Plan (opens in a new window) and the Civil Service Diversity and Inclusion Strategy (opens in a new window).

The Senior Business Analyst supports the Enterprise Architect in providing an integrated view of the organisation, using a reputable approach, cohesive framework and available industry standard techniques, building a bridge between the strategic plan of a business and the actual day-to-day function of the business., + Proficient use of Microsoft Suite of packages, particularly Teams, Excel and PowerPoint

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills

• Experience of identifying and managing relationships with internal and external stakeholders

• Good organisational, planning and research skills

• Team player, able to work effectively at all levels of an organisation with the ability to influence others to move towards consensus

• Good situational analysis and decision making abilities

Generic-Desirable

• Proficient use of the Microsoft Suite of packages, particularly Visio, Outlook, OneNote and Word

• Experience of planning and deploying business change initiatives

• Working knowledge of risk identification and management

• Storytelling-the ability to translate complex messages

Role Specific-Essential

• Good understanding of business analysis and architecture

• Ability to use business analysis disciplines to capture and understand requirements and undertake route cause analysis

• Experience leading and facilitating workshops with stakeholders

Role Specific-Desirable

• Experience using model-based representations that can be adjusted as required to collect, aggregate or disaggregate complex and conflicting information about the business to wide audiences

• The ability to assimilate and correlate disconnected documentation, and articulate their collective relevance to the organisation and to high-priority business issues

• Experience using and managing architecture repositories

• Experience of undertaking impact assessment as a result of proposed change, to understand the gap between current and future state

Desirable Qualifications, one or more of:

• Business analysis qualification/certification

• Business architecture qualification/certification

• The Open Group Architecture Framework qualification/certification (TOGAF)

• Operating Model Design qualification/certification

• Membership of a Business Architecture Guild or Association

Alongside your salary of £44,590, Ministry of Defence contributes £12,917 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides.

• Name : Lita Cobham

• Email : lita.cobham929@mod.gov.uk

Recruitment team

• Email : DBSCivPers-Resourcingteam3@mod.gov.uk, Please ensure you read the attached candidate information document prior to completing your application. If you are dissatisfied with the service you have received from DBS, or believe that DBS has failed to follow the recruitment process in line with the Civil Service Commission principles of selection for appointment on merit on the basis of Fair and Open competition, you can raise a formal complaint by writing to DBS at the following address: Defence Business Services, Scanning Hub, Room 6124, Tomlinson House, Norcross Lane, Blackpool, FY5 3WP. If after raising your complaint with DBS you remain dissatisfied you can complain directly to the Civil Service Commission at the following address: Civil Service commission, Room G/8, 1 Horse Guards Road, London, SW1A 2HQ Or by email: info@csc.gov.uk.