Senior Business Analyst-2 Full Time

Reading, Berkshire
AWE

Information Services and Security have a vital role to play in a crucial national mission. We are here to enable the organisation to deliver through the use of technology. As AWE transforms itself to meet the needs of the UK’s next-generation nuclear deterrent, we need to adapt to deliver data-driven decision making, flexible and future-proofed IT services, adaptable cyber security, support to a multi-billion Pound building programme, and many more.

The scale might be daunting to some, but you’ll find it stimulating. We’ve got a long journey that we’ve only just started and we’re looking for motivated people who can take us in the right direction. Your role will contribute directly to that shared mission. We won’t deceive you, in some areas we’re starting from a low base, but within ten years this organisation will look quite different, and you can help make that happen. This is a role where you’ll contribute to a legacy of national security for decades to come.

So come and join us.

We are recruiting for a Senior Business Analyst. The IS Business Analysis team provide cross-enterprise business analysis services to AWE. Alongside the Delivery teams, the Senior Business Analyst enables the definition of business needs and delivery of work packages to programmes and projects across the organisation, throughout the Demand and Delivery lifecycles from Strategy through handover and in-life service.

Location – Reading area

Salary – from 45,100

AWE (one of the best 25 big companies to work for in the UK) offers an attractive array of benefits which include:

• Market leading contributory pension scheme
• Generous holiday entitlement (270 hours a year including bank holidays, plus every other Friday off)
• Flexible working hours
• Salary sacrifice scheme
• Relocation package available (terms and conditions apply)

Key Accountabilities:

• To lead, motivate and develop a team of people engaged in the delivery of Business Analysis across AWE.
• To develop and manage the Business Analysis Service as a whole to effectively support Business Engagement and Delivery requirements.
• Ensure the BA Team is resourced to meet the demand identified through the Front-End process and in the Portfolio.
• Allocation of staff to projects, services and tasks, managing workloads and staff availability issues as well as individual capability.
• Build good working relationships with specialist contractors and suppliers of BA resources.
• Own/Manage the Front-End process, which includes the demand capture, assessment, prioritisation evaluation/scoping, and handover to Delivery.
• Develop, Manage and Maintain the “IS Portfolio”, to enable (and be able to demonstrate) effective demand management and Portfolio Management. The IS Portfolio includes all activities including demand (pipeline) and change activities (Projects and Managed Tasks).
• Build sound working relationships with the team’s customer community in order to gain an understanding of customer requirements, business drivers, and satisfaction levels from the service provided.
• Maintain and promote high personal standards in environment, safety, health, security and quality and be a great team player.
• Additional accountabilities for this job profile may be defined and appointed through the Chief Engineer Management Arrangements, with appointees listed within the Company Design Authorities and Technical Authorities, as held in the company management system.

Key Responsibilities:

• Line manage the internal BA resources and oversee the task management of the external BA resources.
• For the BA service: ensure effective and timely response to BA resource requests, utilisation and budget targets are met, provision of appropriate reporting/tracking (SLAs, BA resource demand (current, future), BA utilisation etc.) and identify and oversee improvements.
• Ensure timely forecasting of expenditure against budgets to enable effective planning by the PMO.
• For the Demand Service: define and implement the front end process, rationalise and cleanse the Demand data, provision of appropriate reporting/tracking (SLAs, quality of demand data, status of Portfolio) and identify and oversee improvements.
• For both services ensure effective interfaces with stakeholders (IS Bus Engagement team, IS PMO, SACO and IS Senior Leadership team).
• The Company may require you to fulfil any other reasonable duties aligned to your position from time to time in line with business needs.

You Will Have:

• 10+ Years experience within a Business Analyst role
• Recent use of Waterfall methodologies
• BCS International Diploma in Business Analysis or equivalent is desirable but certainly not essential
• Work Package and Problem Statement definition.
• Impact Analysis, Gap analysis, Root cause Analysis.
• Definition of Scope and Objectives, Stakeholder mapping.
• Requirements Management: elicitation, documentation, validation, prioritisation, review and sign-off.
• Workshop facilitation, stakeholder 121s, questionnaire creation, focus groups.
• Functional and Non-Functional Requirements definition: Functional Breakdown Structure, High and Low-level Requirements definition, User stories and Acceptance criteria; Requirements Catalogue, Business Rules, Wireframing, Business Context Diagrams, Business Process Modelling and Mapping; Business Process Re-engineering.
• Solution assessment and validation.
• Definition of MVPs, KPIs and metrics for Financial and Operational Benefits Realisation.
• Expert Stakeholder Management and Communication skills.
• Experience in mentoring and coaching junior Business Analysts.
• Extensive experience delivering multiple work-packages at pace in a secure and highly regulated, change focussed environment.

All Candidates must be willing and able to obtain and maintain the necessary security clearance for the role.