Business Analyst - Sheffield

Job Description
As a 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.

Job description

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.

Person specification

See selection process for further details.

If you would like to learn more about the role, please contact natalie.selby@dwp.gov.uk.

Technical skills

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

• Business Modelling – Please give a specific example of how you\’ve used your business modelling skills to aid your analysis and improve your communication on a project.

Benefits

Alongside your salary of £42,614, Department for Work and Pensions contributes £12,345 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides.

We also have a broad benefits package built around your work-life balance which includes:

• Working patterns to support work/life balance such as job sharing, term-time working, flexi-time and compressed hours.
• Generous annual leave – at least 25 days on entry, increasing up to 30 days over time (pro-rata for part time employees), plus 9 days public and privilege leave.
• Support for financial wellbeing, including interest-free season ticket loans for travel, a cycle to work scheme and an employee discount scheme.
• Health and wellbeing support including our Employee Assistance Programme for specialist advice and counselling and the opportunity to join HASSRA a first-class programme of competitions, activities and benefits for its members (subscription payable monthly).
• Family friendly policies including enhanced maternity and shared parental leave pay after 1 year\’s continuous service.
• Funded learning and development to support progress in your role and career. This includes industry recognised qualifications and accreditations, coaching, mentoring and talent development programmes.
• An inclusive and diverse environment with opportunities to join professional and interpersonal networks including Women\’s Network, National Race Network, National Disability Network (THRIVE) and many more.

This job role may be suitable for hybrid working, which is where an employee works part of the week in their DWP office and part of the week from home. This is a voluntary, non-contractual arrangement and your office will be your contractual place of work. The number of days that anyone will be able to work at home will be determined primarily by business need but personal circumstances and other relevant circumstances will also be taken into account. If you are successful, any opportunities for hybrid working, including whether a hybrid working arrangement is suitable for you, will be discussed with you prior to you taking up your post.

Salary Information

Pay for this role is from £42,614 to £45,081.

Our offer to successful candidates will be based on an assessment of your skills and experience as demonstrated at interview.

Existing Civil Servants who secure a new role on lateral transfer will maintain their current salary.

Existing Civil Servants who gain promotion will either move to the bottom of the grade pay scale or get a 10% increase to their current salary whichever would be the greater.

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