Lead the Transformation of Healthcare in Wales
Are you ready to apply your business analysis leadership to revolutionise healthcare technology and make a tangible impact on the lives of millions?
Digital Health and Care Wales (DHCW) is seeking a passionate and experienced Principal Business Analyst to shape the future of digital health in Wales. This is a pivotal leadership role with the opportunity to influence patient care, clinical staff experiences, and the overall efficiency of NHS Wales.
About The Role
As the Principal Business Analyst, you will be an inspirational leader and a recognised expert, defining and connecting business analysis strategies across the organisation. You will ensure that business needs are clearly understood, articulated, and met through the digital solutions we provide.
You will manage the business analysis function, leading a team in delivering clear, comprehensive, and well-documented business requirements across a diverse portfolio of digital products and services. You will champion best-practice business analysis principles and methodologies, ensuring our solutions are user-centric, deliver value, and align with strategic objectives.
The ability to speak Welsh is desirable for this post; Welsh and/or English speakers are equally welcome to apply.
* Strategic Leadership: Define and lead the long-term vision and strategy for the Business Analysis profession, ensuring alignment with DHCW and NHS Wales strategic objectives.
* Team Leadership: Lead, mentor, and inspire a high-performing team of Business Analysts, fostering a culture of excellence, continuous improvement, and collaboration.
* Business Analysis & Governance: Oversee the analysis of complex business problems, ensuring the integrity, consistency, and quality of requirements. Establish and evolve business analysis governance and assurance processes.
* Stakeholder Management: Build and maintain strong relationships with senior stakeholders across multiple business and technical areas within DHCW, NHS Wales, and technology partners to ensure business needs are accurately captured and prioritised.
* Benefits & Risk Management: Proactively identify and address risks to project success and benefits realisation. You will drive innovation in how we understand and respond to user and service needs.
* Solution Delivery: Ensure that business analysis activities are seamlessly integrated into the system development life-cycle, helping to manage challenges from concept and discovery through to implementation, operation, and support.
Digital Health and Care Wales (DHCW) is an expert national body and part of NHS Wales. We work in partnership with NHS Wales colleagues and other key stakeholders to provide national digital and data services which support the delivery of health and social care in Wales. Modern health and care services depend on good digital tools, data and information. DHCW runs or works with more than 100 services and delivers major national digital transformation programmes to support this. In addition, DHCW provides expert advice in relation to cyber security and information governance. We give frontline staff the digital tools which help them provide safer and more efficient care. We are also giving patients and the public digital tools to better manage their own health and wellbeing, empowering people to live healthier lives. We put people at the heart of what we do, working to the highest standards to deliver quality and make digital a force for good in health and care.
Working for DHCW offers lots of employee benefits, including flexible working, a competitive salary, 28 days of annual leave plus Bank Holidays and opportunities for career development. We are committed to recognising and celebrating our staff as the most valuable part of our organisation.
For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Chris Collis Job title: Chief Digital Architect Email address: chris.collis@wales.nhs.uk
Seniority level
* Seniority level
Mid-Senior level
Employment type
* Employment type
Full-time
Job function
* Job function
Research, Analyst, and Information Technology
* Industries
IT Services and IT Consulting
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