Lead Business Analyst

Lead Business Analyst
Location: National*
Closing Date: 19^th November
Interviews: W/C 30^th November (subject to change)
Grade: G6
(MoJ candidates who are on a specialist grade, will be able to retain this grade on lateral transfer)
Salary**: London: £75,674 – £85,257 (which may include an allowance of up to £4,801). National: £71,381 – £80,419.
Working pattern: Full-time, Part-time, Flexible working, Job share.
Contract Type: Permanent
Number of vacancies: 1
Vacancy number: 23890
*We offer a hybrid working model, allowing for a balance between remote work and time spent in your local office. Office locations can be found ON THIS MAP

The Role

We’re recruiting for a Lead Business Analyst here at Justice Digital, Data and Science to be part of our warm and collaborative Digital Infrastructure and Security Operations team.

This role aligns against Lead Business Analyst from the Government Digital and Data Framework.

The Digital Infrastructure and Security Operations area enables Ministry of Justice staff to stay connected and securely access business critical applications, data, and information whenever and wherever they need. The team enables staff to communicate and collaborate with each other and with users of our services across the UK.

This is a senior leadership role within the Business Analysis profession. You will work across multiple services, operating in complex and often ambiguous environments to help shape priorities, clarify problems, and ensure that business analysis activity is focused on delivering meaningful outcomes.

A key aspect of this role is partnering closely with the Digital Infrastructure and Security Operations business area. You will be expected to develop a strong understanding of this domain and become a trusted advisor to senior leaders, helping to shape and influence how services evolve to meet organisational needs. This includes supporting decision making in areas such as risk, security, and service performance, where priorities are often complex and competing.

You will provide visible leadership to a cohort of Business Analysts, supporting their development and strengthening business analysis capability within your area. Alongside this, you will play an active role in the wider Business Analysis community across JDDS, contributing to how the profession grows and evolves.

Working closely with senior stakeholders across security, technology, and product, you will help bring clarity to competing priorities and support decision making in areas where there may not be a single clear answer. You will ensure that business analysis is used effectively to understand problems, explore options, and align work to organisational goals.

This role requires you to look beyond individual services, understanding how different parts of the organisation connect and where dependencies and risks exist. You will help shape how Business Analysts are deployed, ensuring their work is focused on the areas of greatest value.

As a Lead Business Analyst, you will be expected to lead through others, creating an environment where Business Analysts are supported, challenged, and able to do their best work. You will champion the role of business analysis, building strong relationships with stakeholders and helping to embed a shared understanding of the value it brings.

You’ll receive a range of excellent benefits when you join our department, including:

• A generous employer pension contribution of 28.97% through the Civil Service Pension Scheme.
• 25 days of annual leave, (increasing to 30 days once you have reached 5 years of service), plus 8 bank holidays and a privilege day for the King’s birthday.
• Flexible working arrangements including hybrid working, working part time or compressed hours. Designed to support a positive work–life balance.

You can find more details of the Benefits we offer here. To help picture your life at MoJ Justice Digital, Data and Science please take a look at our blog.

Key Responsibilities

• Provide visible BA leadership by supporting Business Analysts in meeting the user needs and business objectives.
• Provide consultative support and guidance to senior stakeholders, using aggregated analysis to form recommendations, challenge thinking or solve problems.
• Work with Head of Digital Infrastructure & Security Operations and Service Owners to establish current Business Analysis skill gaps and work with the Head of Profession to align these into the profession recruitment strategy.
• Lead, coach, develop and advocate for Business Analysts across multi-disciplinary teams and other profession leads.
• Ensure Business Analysts have a clear understanding of what good looks like and coach them into replicating it.
• Maintain and grow a strong community of practice, ensuring it has a clear purpose and good levels of engagement.
• Ensure and maintain alignment of Digital Infrastructure & Security Operations services and their dependencies.
• Collaborate with other Business Analyst Leads and the Head of Profession to continually develop the profession.
• Advocate for Business Analysis by promoting the role with other professions and outside of your business area.
• Lead initiatives to identify early talent and create pathways for entry level Business Analysts.
• Support initiatives to create early talent programmes, supporting professional growth and maturity.

If this feels like an exciting challenge, something you are enthusiastic about, and want to join our team please read on and apply!

Person Specification

Essential

Understanding problems and shaping the right solutions

• Significant experience of analysing complex business problems, identifying root causes and evaluating options to recommend effective, evidence-based solutions aligned to strategic objectives.

Developing business analysis capability in yourself and others

• Experience of developing business analysis capability through coaching, mentoring and supporting the professional development of business analysts, while promoting continuous learning and good practice.

Leading and growing business analysis

• Strong leadership skills, with experience of providing direction, supporting and motivating others, and creating an inclusive environment where challenge, collaboration and different perspectives are encouraged.

Building strong and effective stakeholder relationships

• Proven ability to build and maintain effective relationships with senior stakeholders, influencing decisions, managing competing priorities and achieving shared outcomes.

Shaping how we understand and improve our systems and data

• Experience of leading systems and data analysis, using appropriate modelling and analysis techniques to understand complex environments, assess the impact of change and support effective service and organisational outcomes.

Communicating skills

• Excellent communication and influencing skills, with the ability to explain complex information clearly, adapt communication to different audiences and influence senior stakeholders to achieve shared understanding and informed decisions.

The successful candidate should also have domain experience in one or more of the following areas, please clearly note this within your personal statement -

• • Networks (such as WAN and or LAN)
  • Network Point Security
  • Network Security
  • Network Operations (Technology service focused)

Willingness to be assessed against the requirements for BPSS clearance.

We welcome the unique contribution diverse applicants bring and do not discriminate based on culture, ethnicity, race, nationality or national origin, age, sex, gender identity or expression, religion or belief, disability status, sexual orientation, educational or social background or any other factor.

Our values are Purpose, Humanity Openness and Together. Find out more here about how we celebrate diversity and an inclusive culture in our workplace.

The Civil Service is committed to attract, retain and invest in talent wherever it is found. To learn more please see the Civil Service People Plan and the Civil Service D&I Strategy.

Salary Information**

Base salary for this role is London: £75,674 – £85,257 (which may include an allowance of up to £4,801). National: £71,381 – £80,419.

• New entrants to the Civil Service joining the MoJ are expected to start at the minimum of the pay band.
• Existing Civil Servants moving on a level transfer will retain their current base salary or move to the minimum of the pay band for the role, whichever is higher.
• Existing Civil Servants who are promoted will either move to the bottom of the new grade’s pay band or receive a 10% uplift, whichever provides the greater increase.
• Candidates may also be eligible for a non‑pensionable Government Digital & Data Allowance of up to £4801 per year (London only). This is a temporary allowance, reviewed annually and may be retained, amended, or withdrawn.

The final offer will reflect the skills and experience you demonstrate during the assessment process.

How to Apply

In Justice Digital, Data and Science, we recruit using a combination of the Government Digital and Data Profession Capability and Success Profiles Frameworks. We shall assess a combination of your Experience and Behaviours during the assessment process.

Stage 1 - Application and sift:

To apply for this position, you must submit the following as part of your application:

• A CV detailing your career history (including any relevant qualifications). Your CV will be assessed against the essential criteria outlined within the Person Specification of this advert.
• A Personal Statement (no more than 750 words) which should outline your experience and skills, giving clear examples of work undertaken. It should specifically address the following criteria listed below, using a separate paragraph for each.
• Relevant domain experience (as outlined within the essential criteria above)
• Significant experience of analysing complex business problems, identifying root causes and evaluating options to recommend effective, evidence-based solutions aligned to strategic objectives.
• Experience of developing business analysis capability through coaching, mentoring and supporting the professional development of business analysts, while promoting continuous learning and good practice.

A diverse sift panel will review the information in your CV and Personal Statement to assess the sift criteria specified above. We operate an anonymous shortlisting process. Please ensure your CV and Personal Statement do not include your name or any other identifying details.

Should we receive a high volume of applications, a pre-sift based on the following criteria will be conducted before the sift -

• Relevant domain experience (as outlined within the essential criteria above)
• Significant experience of analysing complex business problems, identifying root causes and evaluating options to recommend effective, evidence-based solutions aligned to strategic objectives.
• Experience of developing business analysis capability through coaching, mentoring and supporting the professional development of business analysts, while promoting continuous learning and good practice.

The following criteria will be assessed at the sift stage -

• Significant experience of analysing complex business problems, identifying root causes and evaluating options to recommend effective, evidence-based solutions aligned to strategic objectives.
• Experience of developing business analysis capability through coaching, mentoring and supporting the professional development of business analysts, while promoting continuous learning and good practice.

Please access the following link for guidance on how to apply - Application Guidance

Stage 2 - Interviews:

Successful candidates who meet the required standard will then be invited to a panel interview held via Microsoft Teams. At interview stage, you will be assessed against the following Success Profile elements - Experience, and the following Behaviours:

• Leadership
• Communicating and Influencing
• Developing Self and Others

As part of your interview, you will be asked to deliver a presentation that assesses your experience. Further details will be provided if successful at sift.

Appointments are made strictly in merit order. In the event that two or more candidates receive identical interview scores, the Leadership behaviour will be applied as the primary lead behaviour to determine the final merit order.

Should you be unsuccessful in the role that you have applied for but demonstrate the capability for a role at a lower level, we reserve the right to discuss this opportunity with you and offer you the position without needing a further application.

A reserve list may be held for up to 12 months, from which further appointments may be made.

Use of Artificial Intelligence

Artificial Intelligence can be a useful tool to support your application, however, all examples and statements provided must be truthful, factually accurate and taken directly from your own experience. Where plagiarism has been identified (presenting the ideas and experiences of others, or generated by artificial intelligence, as your own) applications may be withdrawn and internal candidates may be subject to disciplinary action. Please see our candidate guidance for more information on appropriate and inappropriate use.

Terms and Conditions

Please review our Terms and Conditions which set out how we recruit and provide further information related to the role and salary arrangements.

If you have any questions, please feel free to contact digitalanddatarecruitment@justice.gov.uk