The UK Government is one of the most digitally advanced in the world. Despite the progress, citizens feel that the country works for those who govern and not for citizens themselves. People want a more responsive state, they want change and they want it at pace and at scale.
UK government has a bold IT vision based on user-centric design, agile development, open-source software, continuous delivery, infrastructure automation, cloud computing and a DevOps culture.
What it needs is people to help put this vision into practice. What it needs is people like you.
As a Business Analyst, you'll work as part of an Agile Scrum Team, having responsibility for understanding user needs, working closely with clients, translating problems or requirements into user stories and defining acceptance criteria. You'll be highly customer focused and responsible for building highly collaborative internal and external stakeholder relationships, supporting your scrum teams to achieve team goals.
N.B.
This role requires successful candidates to hold a current DV Clearance
Day-to-day responsibilities:
* Working with stakeholders and business users from your customers to elicit, capture, analyse, refine, communicate and document their requirements
* Representing the technical team in communication with customers about the project delivery
* Supporting architects, designers and developers in the definition of technical solutions
* Working with User Experience and Information Architects in the definition of Customer Journeys and the production of wireframes and prototypes
* Validating that the functional and non-functional requirements are appropriately implemented within the solution
* Estimating timescales, resources and planning to successfully deliver a project
* Contributing to the creation of best practices through the identification of reusable project assets
* Maintaining up-to-date knowledge of the latest IT trends, best practices and digital technologies
* Coaching and developing more junior BAs and Graduate community (for more senior BA positions)
* Acting as Scrum Master, Product Owner and/or Agile Coach (for more senior BA positions)
Why you?
* A track record of working on IT development programmes with demonstrable experience of working on a variety of different IT delivery projects.
* Experience of working with a recognised Agile or Iterative development methodology (e.g. Scrum)
* Experience of Agile documentation including Backlogs, Customer Journeys, Use Cases, User Stories, Acceptance Criteria etc
* Experience of a variety of requirements elicitation techniques
* Experience of the full project lifecycle and a good understanding of project roles and activities (technical and non-technical) required for successful delivery
* Good facilitation and influencing skills with the ability to work with large groups of customers of varying level of seniority from user to board level
* Excellent communication skills and able to communicate with and present to internal teams and customers with technical and non-technical backgrounds
Bring your values, energy, motivation and sense of humour to the role, we want you to add to and enhance the team and culture.
Interested? Please, apply now