Senior Business Analyst at Department for Work & Pensions, Manchester/Remote, 6 Months, £Contract Rate

The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) is responsible for welfare, pensions, and child maintenance policy. As the UK's biggest public service department, it administers the State Pension and a range of working age, disability and ill health benefits to around 20 million claimants and customers. As such, we operate on a scale that is almost unmatched anywhere in Europe and most people in Britain come into contact with us at some point in their lives.Working with DWP, you will be helping us to drive our priorities to:Run an effective welfare system that enables people to achieve financial independence by providing assistance and guidance into employmentIncrease saving for, and security in later lifeCreate a fair and affordable welfare system which improves the life chances of childrenDeliver outstanding services to our customers and claimantsDeliver efficiently: transform the way we deliver our services to reduce costs and increase productivity.

 

As a Digital Business Analyst, your main responsibilities will be:Essential:Translate the business problem and user needs into a set of detailed requirements for the solution that align to best practice methodology, with the appropriate use of epics, features, user storiesand defined acceptance criteria.Advise the Product Owner in agreeing the suitable mix of epics, features & stories for each sprint, as well asactive contribution towards prioritisation activities.Communicate effectively across both technical and business stakeholders, ensuring the understanding of requirements and acceptance criteria is aligned.Understand business processes and activities that impact and that are impacted by the product or service. Selecting the appropriate best practice techniques to model business processes, existing andnew, in order to achieve consensus.Manage stakeholder relationships, ensuring alignment across business and technical stakeholders. Ensure issues and risks raised are resolved in an appropriate manner.Document and consult on requirements in a layout and format that can be easily understood by all stakeholdersEnsure that you understand and follow the principles of the INVEST model.Desirable:Agile and lean practices   Business analysisRelationship/stakeholder managementCollaboratively support the prioritisation of the backlog.Knowledge and experience of software development lifecycleExperience of working in Agile/Scrum environment

 

Please be aware that this role can only be worked within the UK and not Overseas.Disability Confident As a member of the Disability Confident Scheme, DWP guarantees to interview all candidates who have a disability and who meet all the essential criteria for the vacancy. In cases where we have a high volume of candidates who have a disability who meet all the essential criteria, we will interview the best candidates from within that group.Armed Forces Covenant / CommitmentDWP guarantees to interview veterans or spouses / partners of military personnel who meet all the essential criteria for the vacancy. In cases where we have a high volume of ex-military candidates / military spouses or partners, who meet all of the essential criteria, we will interview the best candidate from within that group.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.