Lead Business Analyst at Office for National Statistics, Newport, 6 Months, £Contract Rate

The Office for National Statistics (ONS) is the UK's largest producer of official statistics, covering a range of key economic, social and demographic topics. These include measuring changes in the value of the UK economy, estimating the size, geographic distribution and characteristics of the population, and providing indicators of price inflation, employment, earnings, crime and migration.

Job Purpose:

The Statistical Business Register (SBR) is replacing a legacy system. It will hold data associated with the UKs businesses (The Register) which will be used in a variety of ways across different systems. The Register will be made up of a number of different digital products that will be used by ONS business. Digital Services are currently restructuring and setting up the delivery teams to align with these products. This role will sit within one of those product teams as its Lead Business Analyst.

SC Clearance is an essential requirement for this role, as a minimum you must be eligible and willing to undergo these checks. Please note, due to the exceptional requirements of this position (short-term nature of this role and speed at which we require a postholder in situ) preference may be given to candidates who meet all of the essential criteria and hold active security clearance. 

As a Lead Business Analyst, your main responsibilities will be to:

• Lead and manage investigations into business processes, information systems, functions, information flows, data structures and software development processes, using various technical, methodical, and consistent techniques.
• Review existing system capabilities, develop use cases and information models, and align business requirements to specific capabilities of system development, including working with developers to ensure that user needs are met.
• Define improvements to business processes, developing business cases to enable decisions to be made based on the benefits of the change.
• Facilitate, understand, and communicate the project scope and work to assure the overall goal is maintained in creation of the product backlog.
• Lead in defining solutions to real business problems through influence, facilitation and communication and ensuring the end-to-end process is considered.
• Shape and challenge business priorities and ways of working through collaboration with business and technology teams.
• Elicit functional and non-functional requirements using appropriate techniques, considering the nature of change and established practices.
• Deliver at pace using the most appropriate delivery methodologies and adopting agile principles.

Essential:

• Extensive BA experience at Senior/Lead level
• Experience working with JIRA/Confluence
• Technical knowledge

Desirable:

• Public Sector experience

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, ONS 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 

ONS 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.