BUSINESS ANALYST

BUSINESS ANALYST

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Contract Term: 6 months (possibility of extension)

Contracting Authority: Homes England

Location: Remote / Hybrid (Occasional visits to either Newcastle, Coventry, Bristol or Liverpool Offices)

Homes England, the government’s housing and regeneration agency, plays a central role in tackling the housing challenges the country now faces. We have the appetite, influence, expertise, and resource to drive positive market change, and our mission is to ensure more homes are built in areas of greatest need, improve affordability and create a sustainable housing market.

Following the publication of the government’s Levelling Up White Paper, Homes England has also been tasked with a core role in spearheading regeneration, partnering with places to reduce economic disparity, empower local leaders and create equal opportunities across the country to ensure communities reach their full potential.

The Business Analyst role:

· This role is more of a business architect end of the BA spectrum.

· You will be working with architects to look at the Digital As-is, what is to be transitioned (ie what will be delivered, what will post Evolve look like).

· You will be working with the architects to identify and document the As-Is business architecture and support the overall enterprise architecture.

· You will work with the Evolve programme to identify the capabilities being delivered by the various projects

· You will identify what is to be transitioned into our future state, and what existing systems remain.

· You will confirm the target architecture post implementation of the Evolve programme and the business capabilities coverage

As a Business Analyst your main responsibilities will be

· An agile BA with experience of working in a multi-disciplinary scrum team, capable of covering for the Product Manager.

· Working with the architects to identify and document the As-Is business architecture and support the overall enterprise architecture.

· Work with the Evolve programme to identify the capabilities being delivered by the various projects

· Identify what is to be transitioned into our future state, and what existing systems remain.

· Confirm the target architecture post implementation of the Evolve programme and the business capabilities coverage

· Develop and articulate a detailed understanding of the Homes England's business processes, working with process owners to identify and implement opportunities for incremental and step-change process improvement.

· Work as an agile business analyst in a multi-disciplinary team, supporting the team and Product Manager with developing and managing a product backlog.

· Facilitate both agile ceremonies and business workshops.

· Production of Epics, Features and User Stories to agreed standards and quality levels.

· Work with stakeholders to identify and implement solutions to complex business problems, successfully identifying and then translating business needs to digital and non-digital solutions.

· Able to work to a waterfall approach, producing High Level, Functional and Non-Functional business requirements.

· Support team members and others within the wider business analysis community of practice, supporting the development and implementation of business analysis best practice

You’ll have relevant experience in:

· Working knowledge of - Business Analysis, Business Process Improvement, Business Modelling, Business Process Testing, Methods and Tools, Requirements, definition management, User experience analysis, Systems analysis, Testing and Stakeholder relationship management.

· Understand how business capabilities work

· Experience of Agile development methodologies, particularly Scrum.

· Experience of working with a backlog of user stories and acceptance criteria using Behaviour Driven Development.

· Experience of waterfall projects, producing to a High Level

· Functional and Non-Functional requirements.

· Knowledge of the GDS development approach / digital standards.

· Extensive stakeholder engagement

· Strong self starter

· Awareness of public sector finances e.g. Departmental Expenditure Limit (DEL).

· Excellent communication skills

If this role sounds like something that you would be interested in, please click the link to apply.

In applying for this role, you acknowledge the following, this role falls in scope of the Off Payroll Working in the Public Sector legislation. Any rates of payment quoted will reflect the gross rate per day for the assignment and will be subject to appropriate taxes and statutory costs. As such the payment to the intermediary and your income resulting from this contract will be different.

Please be aware that this role can only be worked within the UK and not Overseas.

Job Types: Full-time, Temporary contract
Contract length: 6 months

Benefits:

• Work from home

Schedule:

• Monday to Friday

Work Location: Remote

Reference ID: PSR1JP00066519