Senior Business Analyst at Network Rail, Milton Keynes, 6 Months, £Contract Rate

Network Rail is at the heart of revitalising Britain's railway. From Crossrail - Europe's largest civil engineering project - to investment in world-class stations and major programmes of electrification, we are involved in some of the most ambitious and diverse ventures that this country has ever seen. We at Network Rail are dedicated to becoming one of Britain 's best employers and believe this starts with placing the candidate at the heart of everything we do!

Interface between the business/routes, Route Services, and sourcing/suppliers during the end-to-end Delivery lifecycle, working across multiple projects and identifying improvements and efficiency changes. Lead on the identification of requirements, managing the customers relationship to enable robust scope, supporting testing, and managing third party suppliers to deliver the appropriate requirements within Digital Data & Technology (DDaT).

As a Senior Business Analyst, your main responsibilities will be:

• Identify all stakeholders, including subject matter experts and cross domain stakeholders and manage the relationships to facilitate full and early engagement throughout the change. Define and agree the stakeholder map and communications plan.
• Engage with Delivery managers and subject matter experts to inform decisions regarding potential solutions and alignment with Architecture, policies and standards.
• Lead and direct a team of internal or external analysts working on the project or programme to facilitate appropriate delivery and promote the use of best practice tools and processes.
• Apply industry best practice knowledge to support the business customer throughout the testing processes. Coordinate testing activities with customers and third-party suppliers including creating test documentation and reviewing the quality and traceability of the test scripts and facilitate appropriate testing.
• Contribute to the production and development of high-level business change project plans, benefits profiles and identify, assess, and escalate project risks and issues as appropriate.
• Analyse and document current processes, workflows, new requirement impacts and information exchanges to uncover impacts to programme designs and identify opportunities to improve efficiency, effectiveness, and quality of service.
• Act as the delegated design authority, work across Business Review Team and wider stakeholder groups, to develop and deploy end to end corporate processes that support effective flow and control of information across Network Rail.

Essential Skills

• Proven business analysis experience in a complex IT & Telecoms environment
• Thorough and up to date understanding of analysis approaches, tools and techniques commonly applied in the consulting field.
• Proven experience in strong stakeholder and relationship management
• Proven experience of contributing to high level project plans, risk identification, assessment, and escalation
• Business process experience and Data modelling experience
• Strong experience in Process Frameworks (TOM),IT Frameworks (ITIL) and Microsoft Office applications.
• Flexibility to work across all stages of Delivery lifecycles supporting effective relationships and project delivery.
• Good understanding of OSS-BSS solutions and processes

Desirable Skills

• Experience across either Rail or Transport would be highly beneficial

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

Network Rail is an equal opportunity employer and values diversity. They welcome applications from everyone.

Disability Confident

As a member of the Disability Confident Scheme, Network Rail 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. This scheme encourages candidates with a disability and/or neurodivergence to apply. In exceptional circumstances, we may also need to apply the desirable criteria in our shortlisting process which may include holding active security clearance.

Armed Forces Covenant

Network Rail 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 candidates from within that group. In exceptional circumstances, we may also need to apply the desirable criteria in our shortlisting process which may include holding active security clearance.

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.