Senior Business Analyst

Advert type - Temporary Promotion or Level Transfer

Duration - 6 months (potential extension to 18 months if funding is secured.

This is expected but not yet confirmed).

Eligibility - Expressions of interest are invited from eligible colleagues in bands A-C.

Sponsorship: Skilled Worker sponsorship is not available for this role.

As a result, we are unable to appoint candidates who require Skilled Worker sponsorship now or in the future.

Applicants must have an existing and ongoing right to work in the UK.

Scotland is an executive agency of the Scottish Government and is the national improvement agency for education.

Our role is to progress Scottish Government’s ambitious vision for education.

One where educators, learners and parents can take full advantage of the potential offered by technologies in order to raise attainment, ambition and opportunities for all.

We are looking for a Senior Business Analyst to join the Glow team within Digital Services including contributing to the Future of Glow programme.

Glow, the national online platform for education in Scotland, provides a number of services for use by learners and educators and regularly has over 350,000 users each month.

Digital Services is a varied team made up of a number of functional areas working together in multi-disciplinary delivery teams on a range of services and platforms including the Microsoft and Google Productivity Suites in Glow, Glow Blogs, web sites, Salesforce and others.

In this role, you will provide business analysis for the Future of Glow programme and the management of all Glow services.

You will facilitate collaboration between developers, testers and the business, working closely with Senior Management, policy leads, procurement and key internal & external stakeholders.

Using analysis and facilitation skills & techniques, you will ensure the business needs are properly analysed and correctly reflected in the technical approach adopted to deliver the live service.