Senior Business Analyst - Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency - SEO

Location

Bristol, Swansea, Leeds, Nottingham, Newcastle, Oldham, Birmingham or Yeading.

About the job

Job summary

The Senior Digital Business Analyst reports to a Lead Business Analyst. The post holder is responsible for providing business analysis expertise to define and validate digital projects, products and services, ensuring they are aligned to DVSA’s strategic objectives. The scope of requirements definition includes business requirements (goals, objectives, needs); stakeholder requirements, solution functional and non-functional requirements and transition requirements.

The post holder will be part of one or more agile / scrum delivery teams within DVSA’s Digital Services and Technology Directorate; working collaboratively with Product Owners and technical colleagues (e.g. software developers, testers) to develop digital solutions that deliver value to customers and the business and provides the team all documentation.

Joining our department comes with many benefits, including:

Employer pension contribution of 28.97% of your salary. Read more about Civil Service Pensions here
25 days annual leave, increasing by 1 day each year of service (up to a maximum of 30 days annual leave), plus 8 bank holidays a privilege day for the King’s birthday
Flexible working options where we encourage a great work-life balance.

Read more in the Benefits section below!

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Job description

The post holder will be part of one or more agile / scrum delivery teams within DVSA’s Digital Services and Technology Directorate; working collaboratively with Product Owners and technical colleagues (e.g. software developers, testers) to develop digital solutions that deliver value to customers and the business and provides the team with all documentation.

In this role you will be responsible for maintaining, refining and ensuring the product backlog is prioritised as well as coordinating communications, escalating and facilitating resolution of risks, issues and changes tied to the backlog.

The post holder will contribute to developing and maintaining the capability of the business analysis function by supporting and mentoring other business analysts and participating in professional communities of practice. The post holder may also have line management responsibility for other business analysts.

Great line management is important to us as an organisation, and we will equip and support line managers to develop the skills they need. We aim to empower line managers to create teams where people can flourish and deliver excellent outcomes for the public. 

For further information on the role, please read the attached role profile. Please note that the role profile is for information purposes only - whilst all elements are relevant to the role, they may not all be assessed during the recruitment process. This job advert will detail exactly what will be assessed during the recruitment process.

Person specification

Required experience:

To be successful in this role you will need to have the following experience:

Experience of working collaboratively with Product Owners and technical colleagues (e.g. software developers, testers) in agile teams to develop and refine business requirements/ user stories and related acceptance criteria.
Experience of working as a business analyst using Agile methodologies in delivering digital projects and products, using appropriate frameworks (e.g. Scrum, Kanban).
Experienced in taking responsibility for investigative work to determine business requirements and specify effective business processes. Applying and monitoring the use of modelling and analysis tools, methods and standards.
Experienced in identifying user needs, producing user stories and proposing design approaches or services to meet these needs by putting users first and managing competing priorities.
Experience of developing and mentoring business analysts.
Experienced in solving complex problems and concepts by gathering and analysing information using comprehensive tools and techniques, using data to formulate plans, and identifying and analysing options to assess feasibility and operational impact.
Proven experience of coordinating and engaging extensively with multiple stakeholders at all levels throughout projects.
Communicating with the development team to ensure they have a complete understanding of the business and user needs, making sure user perspectives are fully considered by technical design teams.