Lead Business Analyst

Justice Digital; United Kingdom; Hybrid; GBP 71,000 - 81,000; Full time

Job summary

A government agency in the UK seeks a Lead Business Analyst to lead over 30 Business Analysts within the Probation Digital team. This role offers responsibilities in leadership, consultation, and community development. Candidates must have strong leadership experience, a strategic view on business processes, and the ability to work with senior stakeholders. Competitive salary, flexible working patterns, and generous benefits are included in this permanent role.

Benefits

£1k learning budget

Generous pension scheme

Flexible working options

25 days leave plus holidays

Wellbeing support through Calm app

Qualifications

• Experience in building and leading business analysis teams in complex organisations.
• Conduct in-depth analysis of services and processes at a strategic level.
• Advocate of active communities of practice.

Responsibilities

• Provide visible leadership to support Business Analysts in meeting user needs.
• Work with stakeholders to identify and implement optimization opportunities.
• Lead, coach, and develop Business Analysts across multi-disciplinary teams.

Skills

Leadership

Business analysis

Stakeholder relationship management

Consultancy

Job description

Lead Business Analyst

Location: National*

Closing Date: 24th August

Interviews: Expected w/c 8th September

Grade: 6

(MoJ candidates who are on a specialist grade, will be able to retain this grade on lateral transfer)

Salary: (Please read the T&C's at the bottom of the advert)

National: £71,381- £80,419

London: £75,674- £85,257

Working pattern: Full time, part time (min 4 days per week), flexible working

Contract Type: Permanent

Vacancy number: 8883

*We offer a hybrid working model, allowing for a balance between remote work and time spent in your local office. Office locations can be found ON THIS MAP

The Role

We're recruiting a Lead Business Analyst here at Justice Digital, to be part of our Probation Digital team. The role will provide strong BA leadership to over 30 Business Analysts and support to the Head of Business Analysis in leading a community of over 100 Business Analysts in Justice Digital. The role will also be working closely with Product Lead, and other leaders, to design, shape and deliver the Probation Digital strategy.

This role aligns against Lead Business Analyst from the Government Digital and Data Framework

A Lead Business Analyst has a strong understanding of the enterprise arena and works in highly complex problem spaces, typically spanning multiple products or services. At this level, you will

• Be a leader in business analysis

• Have direct line management of people and be responsible for managing their career aspirations.

• Actively share knowledge and be seen as a go-to person in the field while mentoring others and owning the main stakeholder relationships

• Foster a community of knowledge sharing and collaboration across Probation Digital and the wider profession.

To help picture your life at MoJ Justice Digital please take a look at our blog and our Digital and Technology strategy 2025

Key Responsibilities:

• Provide visible BA leadership by supporting Business Analysts in meeting the user needs and business objectives.

• Provide consultative support and guidance to senior stakeholders, using aggregated analysis to form recommendations, challenge thinking or solve problems.

• Work with Head of Probation Digital and Service Owners to establish current Business Analysis skill gaps and work with the Head of Profession to align these into the profession recruitment strategy.

• Lead, coach, develop and advocate for Business Analysts across multi-disciplinary teams and other profession leads.

• Ensure Business Analysts have a clear understanding of what good looks like and coach them into replicating it.

• Maintain and grow a strong community of practice, ensuring it has a clear purpose and good levels of engagement.

• Ensure and maintain alignment of Probation digital services and their dependencies.

• Collaborate with other Business Analyst Leads and the Head of Profession to continually develop the profession.

• Advocate for Business Analysis by promoting the role with other professions and outside of your business area.

• Lead initiatives to identify early talent and create pathways for entry level Business Analysts.

• Support initiatives to create early talent programmes, supporting professional growth and maturity.

If this feels like an exciting challenge, something you are enthusiastic about, and want to join our team please read on and apply!

Benefits

• 37 hours per week and flexible working options including working from home, working part-time, job sharing, or working compressed hours.

• A £1k per person learning budget is in place to support all our people, with access to best in class conferences and seminars, accreditation with professional bodies, fully funded vocational programmes and e-learning platforms

• Staff have 10% time to dedicate to develop & grow

• Generous civil service pension based on defined benefit scheme, with employer contributions of 28.97% from April 1st 2024 (Contribution Rates)

• 25 days leave (plus bank holidays) and 1 privilege day usually taken around the Kings' birthday. 5 additional days of leave once you have reached 5 years of service.

• Compassionate maternity, adoption, and shared parental leave policies, with up to 26 weeks leave at full pay, 13 weeks with partial pay, and 13 weeks further leave. And maternity support/paternity leave at full pay for 2 weeks, too!

• Wellbeing support including access to the Calm app.

• Nurturing professional and interpersonal networks including those for Carers & Childcare, Gender Equality, PROUD and SPIRIT

• Bike loans up to £2500 and secure bike parking (subject to availability and location)

• Season ticket loans, childcare vouchers and eye-care vouchers.

• 5 days volunteering paid leave.

• Some offices may have a subsidised onsite Gym.

Person Specification

Essential

• Experience of building and leading business analysis teams of varying proficiency levels and in complex organisations (Leadership- sift)

• Experience of conducting in-depth analysis of services and processes at a strategic level, and working with multi-disciplinary teams, and senior stakeholders to identify and implement opportunities to optimise them (Business Analysis-sift)

• Stay up to date with the latest business analysis and wider digital trends, ensuring that our solutions respond accordingly and that good BA practice is promoted (Developing self and others- interview)

• Advocate of active communities of practice. Can demonstrate promoting the value and purpose of Business Analysis to stakeholders and the wider organisation and the benefits of building a BA identity and brand (Stakeholder relationship management- interview)

• Business analysis. You can set the direction for business analysis within a programme of work, enterprise or wider sector. You can guide tactical decision-making and influence the formulation of longer-term strategic plans in an evolving, complex and unpredictable environment. You can give colleagues the means and authority to make decisions about their approach to business analysis activities. You ensure that the proposed solutions align with the organisational strategy and vision. (interview)

• Developing Self and Others - Prioritise and role-model continuous self-learning and development. Identify areas individuals and teams need to develop in order to achieve future objectives. Support colleagues to take responsibility for their own learning and development. Ensure that development opportunities are available for all individuals regardless of their background or desire to achieve promotion. Ensure individuals take full advantage of learning and development opportunities available to them, including workplace based learning. Encourage discussions within and between teams to learn from each other's experiences and change organisational plans and processes accordingly. (interview)

• Stakeholder Relationship Management - You can develop engagement strategies and lead on communication with stakeholders at all levels. Actively establish relationships and apply the benefits of professional networks. You can also be a point of consultation and escalation to resolve conflict in complex situations (interview)

• Leadership - Promote diversity, inclusion and equality of opportunity, respecting difference and external experience. Welcome and respond to views and challenges from others, despite any conflicting pressures to ignore or give in to them. Stand by, promote or defend your own and team's actions and decisions where needed. Seek out shared interests beyond your own area of responsibility, understanding the extent of the impact actions have on the organisation. Inspire and motivate teams to be fully engaged in their work and dedicated to their role. (interview)

• Consultancy - You can set the direction of scope and methodology for the representation of real world complex situations across a programme or organisation. You are comfortable documenting conceptual models to support strategic planning and decision making. (interview)

Willingness to be assessed against the requirements for SC clearance level.

We welcome the unique contribution diverse applicants bring and do not discriminate on the basis of culture, ethnicity, race, nationality or national origin, age, sex, gender identity or expression, religion or belief, disability status, sexual orientation, educational or social background or any other factor.

Our values are Purpose, Humanity Openness and Together. Find out more here about how we celebrate diversity and an inclusive culture in our workplace.

How to Apply

• Candidates must submit CV + Supporting Statement (500 words). Failure to provide both documents will result in a rejection of your application.

The supporting statement should outline your experience, against following points of the essential criteria list above, under 'Person Specification'

• Experience of building and leading business analysis teams of varying proficiency levels and in complex organisations (Leadership)

• Experience of conducting in-depth analysis of services and processes at a strategic level, and working with multi-disciplinary teams, and senior stakeholders to identify and implement opportunities to optimise them (Business Analysis-sift)

In Justice Digital, we recruit using a combination of the Government Digital and Data Profession Capability and Success Profiles Frameworks. We will assess your Experience and the following Behaviours during the assessment process:

• Consultancy

• Developing Self and Others

• Business Analysis

• Leadership

• Stakeholder Relationship Management

• Communicating and Influencing

A diverse panel will review your application against the Person Specification above.

Successful candidates who meet the required standard will then be invited to a 1-hour panel interview held via video conference, which will include a Business Analysis, presentation task.

Should we receive a high volume of applications, a pre-sift based on Business Analysis experience will be conducted before the sift.

Should you be unsuccessful in the role that you have applied for but demonstrate the capability for a role at a lower level, we reserve the right to discuss this opportunity with you and offer you the position without needing a further application.

A reserve list may be held for up to 12 months, from which further appointments may be made.

Use of Artificial Intelligence

Artificial Intelligence can be a useful tool to support your application, however, all examples and statements provided must be truthful, factually accurate and taken directly from your own experience. Where plagiarism has been identified (presenting the ideas and experiences of others, or generated by artificial intelligence, as your own) applications may be withdrawn and internal candidates may be subject to disciplinary action. Please see our candidate guidance for more information on appropriate and inappropriate use.

Terms & Conditions

Please review our Terms and Conditions which set out how we recruit and provide further information related to the role and salary arrangements.

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• A competitive and comprehensive benefits package
• A competitive and comprehensive benefits package