Description
Job Description:
Business Analyst
Level T2 / Salary - with potential to increase for truly exceptional performance at assessment
Role Description:
Leidos are a growing company delivering innovative technology and solutions focused on safeguarding critical capabilities and transformation in frontline services, our work in the United Kingdom includes addressing some of the most complex problems in defence, healthcare, government, safety and security, and transportation.
https://www.leidos.com/company/global/uk-europe
We are in search of a Business Analyst who will analyse complex business problems to be solved with processes and applications across our customer and operating portfolio. You will manage and support work empowering organisations to establish, and deliver, their vision and value, by joining a capability which offers extensive business analytics experience, business strategic and operations planning capability, change acculturalisation expertise and business transformation knowledge.
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Location:
The prime location for the role is flexible. Mobility and willingness to travel, on an ad-hoc basis, to 200+ mile distances is essential.
Key responsibilities:
Work within a multidisciplinary, product-centric team to ensure that the development backlog effectively meets business needs and that problems are concisely articulated as user stories.
Work closely with the Product Owner to understand the business drivers and desired outcomes, and ensure proposed solutions and prototypes are produced in line with these.
Help recommend and design acceptance criteria to support test engineers producing testing approaches / methodologies.
Evaluate, analyse and support business change impacts and constantly drive to ensure the product evolves towards the service vision and business architecture strategy.
Help to develop performance metrics and evolve working practises to continuously advance the quality of solutions and the business value of the product.
Required skills and experience:
Behavioural driven development for central government organisations.
Experience in defining Digital Products in a government organisation – familiarity with Government Digital Services (GDS).
Knowledge of human/user-centred design frameworks and processes within web and mobile product development.
Ability to identify and present actionable research insights to business stakeholders.
Requirements Elicitation, the ability to work with Subject Matter Experts to capture business requirements alongside an Agile system development project.
Experience of working in multiple work streams in complex Agile environments.
Experience of running requirement elicitation workshops and generating user story documentation.
The ability to work collaboratively with internal teams to shape user stories and acceptance criteria.
The ability to facilitate effective process design workshops to define detailed, complete and agreed processes.
The ability to identify significant gaps between as is and to be processes and understand the steps required to move to the target state.
Extensive experience of producing personas, journey maps, user stories and pain point analysis.
Excellent leadership, communication and interpersonal skills with the ability to work both independently and as part of a team.
Key Skills
Knowledge of human/user-centered design frameworks and processes within web and mobile product development.
Ability to identify and present actionable research insights to business stakeholders.
Requirements Elicitation, the ability to work with Subject Matter Experts to capture business requirements alongside an Agile system development project.
Experience of working in multiple work streams in complex Agile environments.
Experience of running requirement elicitation workshops and generating user story documentation.
The ability to work collaboratively with internal teams to shape user stories and acceptance criteria.
Proposal Generation
The ability to facilitate effective process design workshops to define detailed, complete and agreed processes.
The ability to identify significant gaps between as is and to be processes and business architectures and understand the steps required to move to the target state.
Extensive experience of producing personas, journey maps, user stories and pain point analysis.
Excellent leadership, communication and interpersonal skills with the ability to work both independently and as part of a team.
Business process modelling (with ability to use a conventional modelling notation, e.g. UML)
Requirements elicitation
Gap analysis and associated techniques
Requirements analysis
Requirements modelling and documentation
High standards of communication (written and verbal)
Proficiency in MS Visio and strong skills in Excel, Word, PowerPoint
Self-starting, enthusiastic, keenness to learn, develop and contribute to the success of the programme
Desired Skills and Experience:
Lean Six Sigma Yellow or Green belt;
Agile/SAFe Experience;
APM PFQ or PMQ;
ITIL 4 Foundation;
Statistical systems such as Origin, Matlab;
Knowledge of Service Oriented Architecture;
Working with large-scale and complex integration programmes;
Working with 3rd party suppliers; Good time management and organisational skills – ability to work with minimal supervision;
What do we do for you?
At Leidos we are PASSIONATE about customer success, UNITED as a team and INSPIRED to make a difference. We offer meaningful and engaging careers, a collaborative culture, and support for your career goals, all while nurturing a healthy work-life balance.
We provide an employment package that attracts, develops and retains only the best in talent. Our reward scheme includes:
• Contributory Pension Scheme
• Private Medical Insurance
• 33 days Annual Leave (including public and privilege holidays)
• Access to Flexible benefits (including life assurance, health schemes, childcare vouchers and cycle to work scheme)
• Dynamic Working: https://www.leidos.com/sites/g/files/zoouby166/files/2019-11/PDF-Dynamic-Working-Leidos-UK.pdf
Commitment to Diversity
We welcome applications from every part of the community and are committed to a truly diverse and inclusive culture. We foster a sense of belonging, welcoming all perspectives and contributions, and providing equal access to opportunities and resources for everyone
If you have a disability or need any reasonable adjustments during the application and selection stages please let us know, and we will respond in a way that best fits your needs.
