Agile Business Analyst Job Description
Job Title:
Agile Business Analyst
Grade:
HEO/SEO/G7
Job Description:
Agile Business Analysis involves understanding user and business needs, breaking those needs out into
constituent parts, analysing multiple solutions and supporting the communication and delivery of a solution to
meet the user needs. Analytical thinking, problem-solving and communication skills are core to effective
business analysis.
Agile Business Analysts carry out a wide range of activities. These responsibilities include:
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Lead and manage investigations into business processes, functions, information flows, data structures
and software development processes, using various methodical and consistent techniques.
Define improvements to business processes, while evaluating potential solutions based on the impacts
across the organisation.
Lead, understand and communicate the big picture while working to assure the overall goal is
maintained in creation of the product backlog, in addition to working at a detailed level during sprints
and iterations.
Leader in providing solutions to real business problems through influence, facilitation and
communication.
Define scope whilst shaping and challenging business priorities and value through collaboration.
Elicit requirements using appropriate techniques taking into account the nature of change and
established practices.
Deliver at pace using agile methodologies and principles.
Responsible for the creation of requirements documentation to required standards. Using appropriate
modelling techniques, considering requirement management and traceability ensuring traceability
back to source, adherence to business objectives and their fitness for purpose.
Assist decision makers in gathering information to make informed decisions.
Promote a culture of assurance and security.
Help to quality assure test solutions and products.
Actively participate in the Business Analysis community and boarder communities to refine and
develop standards, working practices and sharing of knowledge and understanding.
Line management of Business Analysts within the DTM community.
Skills and Experience
It is essential that you have/can demonstrate;
Skill area
Qualifications
and previous
experience
HEO
ISEB accreditation in one
or more of the following:
Business analysis
essentials, Requirements
engineering, Modelling
business processes,
Systems Modelling
Techniques using UML,
Systems Development
essentials, Foundation
certificate in IT-enabled
business change (at least 1
module).
SEO
ISEB diploma in Business
analysis or Solutions
Development
Grade 7
ISEB diploma in Business
analysis and Solutions
Development
Experience of business and
systems analysis working on
at least 2 medium or large
agile, project based
environments, including
identification of business
benefits, deconstructing
user needs, business process
modelling, requirements
capture and prioritisation
Experience of business or
and co-ordination with other
systems analysis working in teams.
an agile, project based
environment, including
identification of business
benefits, deconstructing
user needs, business
process modelling,
requirements capture and
prioritisation.
Extensive and demonstrable
experience of business and
systems analysis working on
at least 2 large agile, project
based environments,
including identification of
business benefits,
deconstructing user needs,
business process modelling,
requirements capture,
prioritisation, facilitation,
challenging business
perspectives, sharing best
practices and improving
team processes and delivery
and co-ordinating and
leading other teams.
Requirements
capture and
Management
Competent in
requirements capture
using use cases / user
stories / product backlogs
etc.
Proficient in requirements
capture using use cases /
user stories / product
backlogs etc.
Extensive experiences of
requirements capture using
use cases / user stories /
product backlogs / sprint
backlogs / story maps /
Impact Mapping etc.
Requirements
elicitation
Proficient in requirements
elicitation, using a range of
techniques.
Expert in requirements
elicitation, using an
extensive range of
techniques.
Expert in requirements
elicitation, using an
extensive range of
techniques.
Experience of guiding and
mentoring other team
Problem
solving
Communication Excellent verbal
communication skills - the
ability to communicate
effectively with both nontechnical and technical
staff to precisely define
requirements.
Extensive experience of
problem solving, identifying
impacts and working with
other colleagues to resolve
and mitigate.
Excellent verbal
communication skills - the
ability to communicate
effectively with both nontechnical and technical staff
to precisely define
requirements.
Excellent written
communication skills.
Written work must be
clear and precise, logically
presented and conform to
ONS standards where
applicable.
Excellent written
communication skills.
Written work must be clear
and precise, logically
presented and conform to
ONS standards where
applicable.
Proficient in
communicating with the
development team to
ensure they have a
complete understanding of
the business and user
needs. Make sure end user
perspectives are fully
considered by the content
and technical design team.
Expert in communicating
with the development team
to ensure they have a
complete understanding of
the business and user needs.
Make sure end user
perspectives are fully
considered by the content
and technical design team.
Communicating
Vision
Experience of problem
solving and understanding
any associated impacts.
Leads facilitation in the
continuous review and
iteration of development
work to ensure the business
and user needs continue to
be met by the proposed
solution.
Alignment to
Business
Strategy
Active in facilitation in the
continuous review and
iteration of development
work to ensure the
business and user needs
continue to be met by the
proposed solution.
Has a working knowledge
Has a proficient
of organisational and wider understanding of
government strategic
organisational and wider
colleagues in the
collaboration with others
during requirements
gathering.
Expert in problem solving,
identifying impacts,
innovative in providing
solutions and leading the
way to address all issues.
Expert verbal communication
skills - the ability to
communicate effectively
with both non-technical and
technical staff to precisely
define requirements. Acts as
a role model and promotes
the community to others.
Expert written
communication skills.
Written work must be clear
and precise, logically
presented and conform to
ONS standards where
applicable.
Experience of scoping,
shaping and setting the
vision during collaboration
with colleagues.
Expert in communicating the
vision whilst educating
colleagues to engage and
buy in to and understand the
direction, value and priority.
Transfers knowledge of
digital analysis principles and
techniques to wider
audiences and expands own
and others’ analysis skills.
Has an extensive
understanding of
organisational and wider
objectives, and ensure that
solutions are aligned with
key priorities. Be alert to
changes in strategic
direction and assess the
impact of change.
Agile and
Digital Skills
Facilitation
skills
Leadership
government strategic
objectives, and ensure that
solutions are aligned with
key priorities. Is alert to
changes in strategic
direction and assess the
impact of change.
government strategic
objectives, and ensure that
solutions are aligned with
key priorities. Is alert to
changes in strategic direction
and assess the impact of
change.
Link to GDS Framework?
Link to GDS Framework?
Experience of negotiation
and consultation with
colleagues to align to
strategic direction.
Link to GDS Framework?
Proficient in arranging,
preparing and facilitating
workshops and meetings
to various audiences.
Extensive experience in
arranging, preparing and
facilitating workshops and
meetings to both technical
and non technical colleagues
at various
Proficient in adding value
by showing curiosity,
challenging the status
quo/standard ways of
doing things.
Capable of making steady
on tasks without the
constant need for constant
feedback from more senior
analysts.
Expert in adding value by
showing curiosity,
challenging the status
quo/standard ways of doing
things, suggesting
improvements and helping
others to make that change.
Expert in making steady
progress on tasks without
needing any feedback from
more senior analysts.
Expert in arranging,
preparing and facilitating in
all scenarios, while ensuring
objectives, priorities and
strategy are aligned.
Mentors and coaches others
in the skills of facilitation.
Acts as a role model for all
colleagues.
Experience in joining up
strategically with other
digital roles to set direction
and maximise performance
improvements.
Experience of helping
colleagues with their career
development, finding ways
to improve the capabilities of
colleagues.
Civil Service Competencies
1
Competency
IT Specialism
- Takes responsibility for investigative work to determine
business requirements and specify effective business
processes, through improvements in information systems,
information management, practices, procedures, and
organisation change. Applies and monitors the use of
required modelling and analysis tools, methods and
standards, giving special consideration to business
perspectives.
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HEO
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SEO
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Grade 7
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Selects the most appropriate means of representing
business requirements in the context of a specific change
initiative. Drives the requirements elicitation process
where necessary, identifying what stake-holder input is
required
Seeing the Big Picture
Changing and Improving
Making Effective Decisions
Leading and Communicating
Delivering at Pace
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