Overview
Senior Business Analyst – Strand, London, WC2R 2LS
About us:
We are a team of Business Analysts based within Digital Solutions in the IT Directorate at King’s. We are a vertical team working across multiple agile teams and Agile Release Trains to deliver IT change in a scaled agile environment. We work together to mature our service and develop ourselves. We have an outward mindset and foster strong working relationships with horizontal partners across King’s and beyond.
About the role:
Provide insights and recommendations to support decision-making and improve business processes. Assess and analyse problems, identify needs, analyse data, and help develop solutions that enhance operational efficiency, maximise value and help King’s achieve it’s strategic goals.
Working with stakeholders and a cohesive Agile Release Train, support the design and implementation of new digital solutions or significant change, collaborate on activities towards service transition, playing a key part in ensuring solutions are designed, implemented, and adopted to deliver value to our stakeholders.
They will be highly motivated, innovative and organised, working horizontally aligned to a value stream and vertically aligned with the rest of our team, striving to continually improve the service we offer and ensure analysis is delivered to the highest quality.
This is a full time post (35 Hours per week), and you will be offered an indefinite contract.
About you:
A list of the essential and desirable criteria provided in your Job description. Candidates will be advised to review the document supplied in the advert to identify where these criteria will be assessed
To be successful in this role, we are looking for candidates to have the following skills and experience:
Essential criteria
- Experience in educational settings or large organisations, and/or relevant higher education or professional qualifications such as Business Analysis, Leadership development, or other relevant training
- Skilled in business situation analysis, feasibility assessment, business modelling, requirements definition, management and backlog refinement, and stakeholder relationship managemen
- tAble to clearly translate between technical and non-technical colleagues, build and sustain networks, coach and support other business analysts, and create an environment for built-in quality
- Capable of collaborative decision-making, workload management, leading projects, and resolving complex problems using initiative and creativity
- Experienced in interpreting stakeholder requirements, using data to inform decisions, improving service delivery, and adapting approach to different contexts or stakeholders
Desirable criteria
- Business Analysis Certification (via BCS, IIBA or other)
- Experience working in a scaled agile environment
- Experience working with Azure DevOps
- Complementary skills such as change management, lean, architecture, exploiting AI
Downloading a copy of our Job Description
Full details of the role and the skills, knowledge and experience required can be found in the Job Description document, provided at the bottom of the next page after you click “Apply Now”. This document will provide information of what criteria will be assessed at each stage of the recruitment process.
We pride ourselves on being inclusive and welcoming. We embrace diversity and want everyone to feel that they belong and are connected to others in our community.
We are committed to working with our staff and unions on these and other issues, to continue to support our people and to develop a diverse and inclusive culture at King’s. We ask all candidates to submit a copy of their CV, and a supporting statement, detailing how they meet the essential criteria listed in the advert. If we receive a strong field of candidates, we may use the desirable criteria to choose our final shortlist, so please include your evidence against these where possible.
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