ICT Analyst

Role overview

What you will do

• Understand problems, needs and improvement opportunities with teams across the Council.
• Gather and interpret business, user, information and technology requirements; develop models showing how these areas connect.
• Identify gaps, duplication and risks, and opportunities to simplify or reuse existing capabilities.
• Describe current and target states and the steps needed to achieve them.
• Compare options and make balanced recommendations on investment, procurement and change.
• Prepare material for architecture governance meetings, including the Technical Design Authority, and maintain architecture records.
• Explain findings clearly to technical specialists, service colleagues and senior managers.

What the Council is looking for

• Business Analyst experience in a large or complex organisation.
• Confidence gathering, testing and managing detailed requirements.
• Experience assessing current states, defining practical future states, comparing options and presenting recommendations.
• Ability to understand how change in one area may affect other services, systems or teams.
• Good workshop, communication and stakeholder skills, including constructive challenge.
• Ability to explain technical or architectural subjects in straightforward language.
• Awareness of public-sector governance, information governance, cyber security, accessibility, procurement and value for money.

Why join the team

• Opportunity to influence how the Enterprise Architecture function develops and how the Council uses it to improve services and inform decisions.
• Work across a broad, visible and practical portfolio, with a small and supportive team and opportunities to develop skills and gain business exposure.

Application notes

• Applicants should give examples of analysis, modelling, stakeholder work and turning evidence into practical recommendations.
• Detailed Enterprise Architecture knowledge or formal certification is not expected; knowledge of frameworks such as TOGAF is welcome.
• The source description ends mid-sentence in its interview-guarantee information.