Business Analyst - Police Staff - Technology - Counter Terrorism Policing HQ

Job Title: Business Analyst - Technology - Counter Terrorism Policing HQ

Salary: The starting salary is £63,409, which includes allowances totalling £3,009.

The salary is broken down as £60,400 basic salary, which will increase annually until you reach the top of the scale £65,886. Plus, a location allowance of £2,009 and a non-pensionable allowance of £1,000.

Job Summary

We’re looking for an experienced Business Analyst who thrives in an Agile environment and is passionate about shaping technology solutions that truly make a difference. In this role, you’ll work at the heart of national Counter Terrorism Policing, collaborating with diverse teams to turn complex challenges into user-centric, evidence-based, and delivery-ready solutions.

You’ll play a key role in gathering, analysing and justifying options for business cases, ensuring decisions are grounded in data and aligned with strategic priorities. From refining technology requirements to crafting user stories, epics, and business cases, you’ll help drive projects that matter, using Agile principles every step of the way. In addition, you’ll actively contribute within delivery squads, collaborating closely with cross-functional teams to ensure solutions are implemented effectively and deliver real value.

This is your chance to champion modern ways of working, influence technology direction at a national level, and ensure solutions are not only innovative but also operationally effective and secure.

Key Tasks

• Collation and analysis of data to inform justification papers (Government Green Book Five Case Model, briefing and options papers).
• Collaborate with stakeholders to define and prioritise user stories, acceptance criteria, and backlog items.
• Ensure alignment of technology initiatives with CTP HQ strategies while enabling flexibility for change.
• To work with various CTP colleagues including Finance, Business Change, Commercial Services and external agencies to ensure that projects and programmes are suitably commissioned, designed and delivered.
• Support delivery teams in applying Agile practices and tools (Scrum, Kanban, SAFe).
• To represent Technology and CTP at project / programme boards and forums (both in-house and at corporate forums and at Partner Agencies).
• Management of up to 2 members of staff.

This role does not attract Shift Disturbance Allowance. If you are currently in a shift-working role, SDA should cease upon appointment to this job.

Vetting

This post requires access to the most sensitive intelligence material on a daily basis. Applicants must hold or be prepared to undergo Developed Vetting (DV) level before taking up the post.

This post requires British nationality (some dual nationals may be ineligible) and Developed Vetting (DV) clearance.

As the post holder will have access to very sensitive information, there are limitations on travelling to a small number of countries and we will undertake additional security checks as part of the recruitment process. Applications from candidates with close connections to certain countries may take considerably longer to process, or in some cases result in a withdrawal of an offer of employment. Further details will be provided at the conditional offer stage.

Confidentiality Agreement

Applicants should also be aware of the need to sign a confidentiality agreement on taking up the post.

Our Employee Commitments

Counter Terrorism Policing aims to create an inclusive and welcoming atmosphere and culture and an environment where all our people feel a strong sense of belonging and are able to reach their full potential. Where any group or individual can be and feel respected, supported and valued to fully participate and contribute to our mission of “Working to keep people safe from Terrorism”.

Inclusion, diversity and equality is at the front and centre of our approach to make the composition of Counter Terrorism Policing more representative of the communities we serve. As Counter Terrorism is rooted in Local Policing, to tackle today’s complex policing challenges, applications from across all communities are therefore essential and encouraged. Counter Terrorism Policing as a network is committed to ensuring that disabled people and those with long-term health conditions have the opportunities to fulfil their potential and realise their aspirations’.

Counter Terrorism Policing is committed to creating an inclusive working environment. We welcome and encourage applications from candidates who are seeking flexible working arrangements, including part time working or job share. In addition, this role has been reviewed following learning from work during the Covid pandemic and may be done in an agile manner. In the first instance, please contact the vacancy holder to discuss how such arrangements could be accommodated (where applicable).

Reports To

Business Development, Strategy & Demand - National Lead

Additional Information

CTP CVF Staff Band.pdf – 807KB Opens in a new window

Disability Confident Statement

The Met is committed to being an equitable (fair and impartial) and inclusive employer for disabled people, striving to have a diverse and representative workforce at all levels. We encourage applications from people from the widest possible range of backgrounds, cultures and experiences. We particularly welcome applications from people with disabilities and long-term conditions, ethnic minority groups and women.

As a Disability Confident Leader, the Met has committed to making disability equality part of our everyday practice. We ensure that people with disabilities and those with long term conditions have the opportunities to fulfil their potential and realise their aspirations.

The Met is committed to making reasonable adjustments to the recruitment process to ensure disabled applicants can perform at their best. If you need any reasonable adjustments or changes to the application and recruitment process, we ask that you include this information within your application form. All matters will be treated in strict confidence.

Please note, if you are applying for a police officer role or to become a police community support officer (PCSO) or designated detention officer (DDO), there is a minimum requirement that you must pass a job-related fitness test (JRFT) at point of entry. This does not apply to police staff roles. Find out more about police fitness standards.

Read our full disability confidence statement.

Essential For The Role

The role holder must have:

• Proven experience in Agile Business Analysis, including writing clear and testable user stories and managing product backlogs.
• Skilled in facilitating discussions to resolve ambiguities or conflicting priorities.
• Experience working with technical and non-technical stakeholders to clarify and challenge business needs.
• Skilled infacilitating workshops and Agile ceremonies.
• Familiarity with Agile frameworks (Scrum, Kanban, SAFe) and tools (Jira, Confluence).
• Ability to balance Agile delivery with governance requirements.
• Experience analysing multiple solution options and comparing costs, benefits, risks and impacts to justify and recommend an option.
• Demonstrable experience applying user centric analysis techniques with the ability to validate requirements and options with users and stakeholders.
• Strong stakeholder engagement, communication and written skills in dynamic environments with the ability to present findings and ideas to different audiences at all levels of the organisation.
• Strong ability to elicit, analyse and document requirements for technology requirements.
• The post holder must have extensive skills in the use of IT with the ability to assess and mitigate technological risk, recognise the implications of new technologies and understand the impact of new information systems.
• Educated to degree level or have equivalent experience in an technical development environment. Acknowledged Business Analysis qualifications as those set out within the BCS Business Analysis Professional Diploma (Formally known as ISEB Business Analysis Diploma).
• BCS Business Analysis Professional Diploma
• SFIA skills: Business Analysis level 5.
• Recognised Project Management qualifications.
• Experience and knowledge of the security accreditation processes at a national level at all GSC levels. Understanding of the Cabinet Office Security Policy Framework (SPF).

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