Senior Business Analyst

Government Recruitment Service; Nottingham; On-site; GBP 41,000 - 50,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Civil Service pension

Flexible working

Disability Confident employer

Job summary

Government Recruitment Service is recruiting a Senior Business Analyst for DVSA's Digital Services and Technology Directorate. The role focuses on delivering value by defining and validating digital projects, maintaining a prioritized backlog and working with Product Owners and technical teams to produce timely, quality solutions.

You will mentor other business analysts, potentially line-manage colleagues, and contribute to the professional community.

Qualifications

• Proven ability to define and validate digital projects, aligning with strategic objectives.
• Ability to maintain and prioritise product/solutions backlog.
• Experience mentoring other business analysts and contributing to practice communities.

Responsibilities

• Lead and refine backlog items, ensuring clear user needs and acceptance criteria.
• Coordinate communications across Product Owners, developers and testers.
• Identify, escalate and resolve risks, issues and changes affecting the backlog.
• Provide line management support to other business analysts where applicable.

Skills

Business analysis

Stakeholder management

Agile / Scrum

Job description

The Senior Digital Business Analyst reports to a Lead Business Analyst. The post holder is responsible for providing business analysis expertise to define and validate digital projects, products and services, ensuring they are aligned to DVSA's strategic objectives. The scope of requirements definition includes business requirements (goals, objectives, needs); stakeholder requirements, solution functional and non-functional requirements and transition requirements.

Joining our department comes with many benefits, including:

• Employer pension contribution of 28.97% of your salary. Read more about Civil Service Pensions here
• 25 days annual leave, increasing by 1 day each year of service (up to a maximum of 30 days annual leave), plus 8 bank holidays a privilege day for the King's birthday
• Flexible working options where we encourage a great work-life balance.

Read more in the Benefits section below!

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The post holder will be part of one or more agile / scrum delivery teams within DVSA's Digital Services and Technology Directorate; working collaboratively with Product Owners and technical colleagues (e.g. software developers, testers) to develop digital solutions that deliver value to customers and the business and provides the team with all documentation.

In this role you will be responsible for maintaining, refining and ensuring the product backlog is prioritised as well as coordinating communications, escalating and facilitating resolution of risks, issues and changes tied to the backlog.

The post holder will contribute to developing and maintaining the capability of the business analysis function by supporting and mentoring other business analysts and participating in professional communities of practice. The post holder may also have line management responsibility for other business analysts.

Great line management is important to us as an organisation, and we will equip and support line managers to develop the skills they need. We aim to empower line managers to create teams where people can flourish and deliver excellent outcomes for the public.

For further information on the role, please read the attached role profile. Please note that the role profile is for information purposes only - whilst all elements are relevant to the role, they may not all be assessed during the recruitment process. This job advert will detail exactly what will be assessed during the recruitment process.

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Senior Business Analyst

Company: Government Recruitment Service

Salary: £45,900 to £45,900 a year

Hours: Full-time

Location: Nottingham

Job type: Permanent

Posting date: 14 Oct 2026

Closing date: 4 Nov 2026

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