Overview
Strategic Capability Lead (Government Digital & Data) - Product, Delivery, Architecture & IT Ops at UK Home Office
A Lead Business Analyst will have a strong understanding of strategic arenas, lead large/complex projects, and possess strong people management, mentoring and coaching skills. They will help develop best practice and support communities of practice. They will ensure outcomes are aligned with the service vision and business strategy by connecting current and future business models while delivering future business architecture strategy. They will support iteration, evolution and optimization and challenge stakeholders constructively to achieve outcomes. This role requires leading effective action to support design, build and delivery teams that meet user needs and business objectives.
What You’ll Do
* Planning and leading technical Business Analysis delivery on the Programme, balancing workload across teams and coaching staff to develop BA skills, confidence, and strategic thinking.
* Collaborating with other professions and delivery leads to ensure clear and consistent BA standards, guidance and templates across the Programme; analyzing use case documentation, data dictionaries, business rules and data models to derive future user stories.
* Elicit, analyse, and validate business requirements and user needs, and create user acceptance criteria for user stories using business driven development (BDD) methods.
* Model processes and procedures using established techniques and document their purpose and importance.
* Understand and define the problem to be solved and ensure strategic decision-making supports business outcomes and user needs.
Essential skills
You’ll have a demonstrable passion for Business Analysis, with the following skills or strong experience in:
* Collaborating with user researchers, interaction designers and developers to achieve quality outcomes.
* Defining approaches to detail user stories and drafting complex user stories as exemplars.
* Recent experience of working in the delivery of a replacement IT system and undertaking functional system analysis.
* Strategic thinking skills with the ability to translate longer-term goals and business outcomes into strategic and tactical solutions.
* Guiding your team to decide the best approach, helping them visualise outcomes, prioritise work and agree minimum viable product.
Benefits and Work Environment
* Meaningful Work: Contribute to critical national security and public service initiatives.
* Career Growth: Tailored development frameworks and professional communities.
* Flexible Working: Hybrid work options to balance professional and personal life.
* Diversity and Inclusion: A workplace that celebrates diverse backgrounds and talents.
Other Benefits
* Exceptional pension: Employer contribution of 28.97%.
* Generous leave: 25 days annual leave (rising to 30 with service), 8 public holidays, and 1 day for the King’s Birthday.
* Flexible working: Full-time, part-time, compressed hours, job sharing, and a hybrid model (minimum 60% on-site).
* Learning and development: Training, technical accreditations, and funded qualifications (subject to approval).
* Recognition and inclusion: Diversity, enhanced parental leave schemes, annual bonuses, and recognition awards.
* Learn more about our benefits: Benefits - Home Office Careers.
Additional Information
* This role requires SC clearance. To meet national security vetting requirements, you must typically have been resident in the UK for at least five years. Visa sponsorship is not available.
Seniority level: Mid-Senior level
Employment type: Full-time
Job function: Information Technology, Strategy/Planning, and Analyst
Industries: Technology, Information and Media, IT System Data Services, and IT System Testing and Evaluation
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