Employer: UK Health Security Agency
Job Title: Senior Business Analyst
Location: United Kingdom
Salary: £54,416 to £68,344 per annum
Job Type: Full-time
Job Summary
This is an exciting opportunity to join UKHSA as a Business Analyst within the Data Product Development (DPD) division — part of the Digital and Data Directorate of the Chief Data Officer Group.
The DPD division provides strategic and operational oversight of data products such as dashboards and platforms used both internally and externally. These products support health security activities and include high-profile external tools like public dashboards.
Key Products:
UKHSA Data Dashboard
Local Authority Data Access Platform (LADAP)
Power BI Centre of Excellence
The flagship UKHSA Data Dashboard builds on the influential COVID-19 dashboard and presents data on topics such as:
COVID-19, Other Respiratory Viruses, Outbreaks, Syndromic Surveillance, Antimicrobial Resistance, Weather & Climate Risks, Blood-borne Illnesses, Childhood & Vaccine-Preventable Diseases, Environmental Hazards, Healthcare-Associated Infections, Invasive Bacterial Infections, and Vector-Borne Diseases.
As a Business Analyst in Data Product Development, you will work in an agile environment alongside product, user-centred design, and data development teams, identifying and elaborating user and business needs to enable the development of dashboarding capabilities.
Main Duties of the Job
The post holder will be an experienced Business Analyst working in an Agile environment and play a key role in identifying, analysing, and delivering requirements for Data Product Development. Key responsibilities include:
Investigating and analysing complex business problems
Explaining business goals, objectives, and processes using data to define requirements
Conducting options analysis and assessing feasibility aligned with DPD objectives
Identifying, analysing, challenging, and validating user and business requirements
Maintaining the Features Catalogue for the UKHSA Data Dashboard
Working with stakeholders and aligned professions including Product Management, User-Centred Design, Project Management, and Data Analysis
Comparing and identifying the best processes or delivery methods
Note: For the complete list of responsibilities, refer to the attached Job Description.
Job Description – Responsibilities
As a Senior Business Analyst in Data Product Development, you will:
Identify and document business and user requirements for both the UKHSA data dashboard and internal dashboards
Obtain and specify requirements for new datasets and dashboard features
Translate business problems into detailed requirements
Work with internal and external stakeholders to understand their needs
Manage complex projects and stakeholder relationships
Essential Criteria
Proven experience as a Business Analyst on complex technical projects
Strong communication and stakeholder management skills
Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills
Proficiency in business analysis tools and techniques, including process modelling and requirements elicitation
Experience with Agile methodologies
Business modelling expertise across projects or programmes
Experience in business process improvement and leading change initiatives
Strong background in requirements definition and management
Desirable Criteria
Experience working as a Technical Business Analyst
Experience with Data Products
Experience in Systems Analysis
Ability to select and use appropriate tools for planning, analysis, testing, and service improvement
Selection Process Details
Stage 1: Application & Sift
Applicants must complete an application form and submit a 750-word supporting statement referencing the 8 essential criteria.
Longlisting:
Applications will be grouped as:
Meets all essential criteria
Meets some essential criteria
Meets no essential criteria
Only applicants who meet all essential criteria will progress to shortlisting.
Shortlisting:
The following essential criterion will be used:
“Experience of requirements definition and management; key responsibility for eliciting, analysing and validating business requirements and user needs…”
Stage 2: Interview
Shortlisted candidates will be invited to a remote interview.
Behaviours Assessed at Interview:
Changing and Improving (Lead Behaviour)
Seeing the Bigger Picture
Delivering at Pace
Managing a Quality Service
Working Together
Technical Skills Assessed:
Candidates will be asked to prepare and present a 5–10 minute presentation. Topic details will be provided in advance.
Interview Dates:
Week commencing 8th September (subject to change).
Feedback will not be provided at the application stage.
Eligibility Criteria
Open to all external applicants (including internal applicants by definition)
Certificate of Sponsorship available (Skilled Worker Visa applicants welcome)
Note on Sponsorship:
Applicants must provide a criminal record certificate from any country lived in continuously or cumulatively for 12+ months in the past 10 years (including adult dependants). Criminal records checks for overseas applicants
Working Pattern and Location
Contract: Permanent
Working Pattern: Full-time, Part-time, Job Share, Flexible Working
Work Arrangement: Hybrid
This role is based at one of UKHSA’s Core HQ locations:
Birmingham
Leeds
Liverpool
London (Canary Wharf)
Requirement: Minimum 60% of working hours (approx. 3 days/week) must be worked on-site, averaged over a month.
Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI)
UK Health Security Agency is committed to equality of opportunity and welcomes applications from all backgrounds, including currently underrepresented groups.
UKHSA aims to build an inclusive culture where differences drive innovative solutions, by removing barriers and promoting equity and inclusion for all, including those who are neurodiverse.
How to Apply
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