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Working in the team with Michael our Lead Business Analyst and our community of Business Analysts you will play a critical role in Digital Delivery. You will be joining our small but friendly team, which is committed to making positive changes for all our users. Michael believes in working in a Collaborative and flexible way to foster good decision-making and problem-solving within the team.
We believe that its critical that people continue to learn and develop, we align our roles to the DDAT framework and have career pathways in place to ensure you will always understand your next step, and, we have a training plan in place to make sure that it happens.
This is an exciting opportunity in our business analysis profession making a real difference in our Digital Delivery team.
These are exciting times in Digital Delivery at Homes England. We have a clear vision – to develop digitally enabled systems and services that work more simply for users – and were looking for talented people to help us achieve it.
We are looking for an experienced senior business analyst to join our team to help us meet our ambitions of ensuring Homes England has a strong basic infrastructure supported by good governance; and our digital services are genuinely modern, agile and effective drivers in the housing market.
Job description
As an experienced Senior Business Analyst and an IT professional, youll understand how to manage colleagues and be able to demonstrate you can work with others as part of a team in a collaborative, inclusive way. You will be able to work strategically with senior stakeholders.
Comfortable line managing business analysts and happy to act as a coach and mentor to your Apprentice Business Analyst. Helping set standards and best practices within the business analysis community of practice.
You will be comfortable supporting a multi-disciplinary teams complex backlog delivering user-focused products through collaboratively developed user stories. You will be flexible, able to switch between agile and waterfall projects, and self-assured supporting Homes England with procuring and adopting new products and services.
As a Senior Business Analyst, you will be expected to have met the skills and expertise required of the Digital Data and Technology frameworks specification for a senior business analyst as laid out in the attached job description.
Person specification
Essential
- Considerable experience in business analysis, working both collaboratively within a multi-disciplinary agile team and alone.
- Experience of leading analysis during the discovery and inception stages of a project.
- Experience of working with the user centred design profession and their methods and techniques.
- Experience of Agile development methodologies, particularly Scrum.
- Experience of producing and managing a backlog of user stories and acceptance criteria using Behaviour Driven Development
- Experience of waterfall projects, producing High Level, Functional and Non-Functional requirements.
- Experienced people manager, leading and developing people.
Desirable
- Knowledge of the GDS development approach / digital standards.
- Awareness of public sector Information Security issues.
- Awareness of public sector finances e.g. Departmental Expenditure Limit (DEL).
Benefits
Homes England is an executive non-departmental public body with its own terms and conditions, benefits and pension scheme. We are a government agency working in partnership with the private sector and want to employ and retain great people. In return we offer a range of excellent benefits, some of the key benefits include:
Holiday – Homes England offers all staff 33 days annual leave per year in addition to 8 statutory bank holidays.
Working Flexibly – At Homes England we have a strong culture of flexible working and encourage all employees to have a healthy work/life balance. We offer a wide range of potential working patterns, including part time, job share and compressed hours.
Health and Wellbeing – We offer health screening with Nuffield Proactive Health Clinics, a free Employee Assistance Programme which offers confidential support 24 hours a day, 7 days a week as well as access to Occupational Health.
Professional Development – At Homes England we are committed to your continued professional and personal development with learning as one of our core values. We pay for one job-related professional membership subscription per year for our employees.
We also offer an excellent range of family friendly benefits, for example, maternity, paternity, shared parental leave.
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To apply please follow the links to our careers page.
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Successful candidates must pass a disclosure and barring security check.
Selection process details
For more information on the role, please see the attached Job Description.
Successful applicants will be advised of the outcome of their application and interviews held as soon as practical after the closing date. Feedback will only be provided if you attend an interview or assessment. We would like to take this opportunity to thank you for your interest in this role and Homes England.
Please note Homes England has a responsibility to ensure compliance with HMG Baseline Personnel Security Standard to address the potential problems of identity fraud, illegal working and deception generally. To ensure compliance we will carry out a pre-employment Personal Identity and Vetting Report through Experian to meet the standard and you will therefore be asked to provide certain information in order that the verification check can be carried out if you are successful in your application.
Homes England are an equal opportunities employer and positively encourages applications from suitably qualified and eligible candidates. We are proud to be an equal opportunities employer that values and respects the people who work for us. Our aim is to be an employer of choice, enabling everyone to reach their full potential.
Homes England is committed to protecting the privacy and security of your personal data. For further information please refer to our Privacy Notice which can be viewed here.
https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/homes-england/about/personal-information-charter
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Open to UK, Commonwealth and European Economic Area (EEA) and certain non EEA nationals. Further information on whether you are able to apply is available here.
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Please note this Post is NOT regulated by the Civil Service Commission.
The Civil Service embraces diversity and promotes equality of opportunity. There is a guaranteed disability confident interview scheme for candidates with disabilities who meet the minimum selection criteria.
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Feedback will only be provided if you attend an interview or assessment.
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Job contact :
- Name : Recruitmentinfo@homesengland.gov.uk
- Email : Recruitmentinfo@homesengland.gov.uk
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- Email : Recruitmentinfo@homesengland.gov.uk
