Senior Business Analyst

About the role

Responsibilities

• Provide business analysis expertise to define and validate digital projects, products, and services aligned with DVSA strategic objectives.
• Define business, stakeholder, functional, non-functional, and transition requirements.
• Work in agile or scrum delivery teams with Product Owners and technical colleagues to develop digital solutions.
• Provide delivery teams with the documentation required for digital solutions.
• Maintain and refine the product backlog and ensure it is prioritized.
• Coordinate communications and facilitate resolution of backlog risks, issues, and changes.
• Support and mentor business analysts and participate in professional communities of practice.
• The role may include line management responsibility for other business analysts.

Experience and qualification

• Experience collaborating with Product Owners and technical colleagues in agile teams to develop business requirements or user stories and acceptance criteria.
• Experience using Agile methodologies to deliver digital projects and products, with appropriate frameworks such as Scrum or Kanban.
• Experience investigating business requirements, specifying effective business processes, and applying modelling and analysis tools, methods, and standards.
• Hold or be prepared to work toward the BCS International Diploma in Business Analysis or an equivalent qualification such as IIBA CCBA or CBAP.

Salary and pension

• The listed salary is £45,900; candidates based in Yeading or Uxbridge receive a £4,000 London Weighting allowance.
• The Civil Service Pension has an employer contribution of 28.97%.

Contract and working pattern

• The contract is permanent.
• The working pattern includes full-time, flexible working, and job-share or part-time arrangements.

Locations

• The role can be based in Bristol, Swansea, Leeds, Nottingham, Newcastle, Oldham (Chadderton), Birmingham (Garretts Green), or Uxbridge.
• For the Uxbridge option, the contractual base is Yeading; while site work is underway, the role begins in Uxbridge, with employees expected to work from Yeading after it reopens in 2028.

Benefits

• Benefits include a Civil Service Pension, 25 days of annual leave rising by one day per service year up to 30 days, and eight bank holidays plus a privilege day.
• Flexible working options are offered to support work-life balance.