Job Description
Senior Data and Business Analyst - Workforce Data
Location: National*
Closing Date: 06 May 2025
Interviews: From 14 May 2025
Grade: SEO
(MoJ candidates who are on a specialist grade, will be able to retain this grade on lateral transfer)
Salary: London: £47,657 - £52,040 which may include an allowance up to £1031; National: £41,463 - £45,276 which may include an allowance up to £1000
Working pattern: full-time, part-time, flexible working
Contract Type: Permanent
*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 Senior Data and Business Analyst here at Justice Digital, to be part of our warm and collaborative Workforce Data Service team.
This role aligns against Senior Data Analyst from the Government Digital and Data Framework.
This is an exciting opportunity to use both your data analysis and business analysis expertise to support maintaining and continuously improving one view of truth for capability data and providing actionable insights to support data-led decision-making across Justice Digital.
You will report to the Head of People Operations and Workforce Data Service team, which comprises two sub-teams:
The Workforce Data Service (WFDS) team, which is responsible for providing a Service through which workforce and capability data is maintained and reported on.
The People Operations team, which is newly-formed and is responsible for operational people-related activities such as the Performance Management Review process, exit interviews and Location Strategy related activities.
A collaborative, flexible and can-do team player is essential in this role, along with somebody who feels comfortable working in a fast paced environment with competing priorities. You will be rewarded with a team that will welcome your experience and ideas and support you to develop.
With your genuine passion for data analysis, you will be the principal data analysis contacts within the team, responding to workforce data commissions, and providing dashboards, reports and analysis to transform data into actionable insight and solutions. You will define and implement quality control and assurance, identify opportunities for data innovation, and will lead on its implementation and adoption.
You will be responsible for maintaining and continuously improving our one view of truth for workforce data, analysing and presenting data to inform strategic workforce planning to support building digital and technology capability. You will join data from multiple sources using the appropriate scripting and tools to extract, transform and load data into our one view of truth.
Our one view of truth is currently held within Orgvue, a workforce planning and organisation design platform, whose native scripting language ‘Gizmo’ is based on JavaScript. This is a key part of the role, with ongoing training and support to enable you and the team to continuously improve and develop the platform to meet existing and emerging user needs. You will ensure data consistency and integrity through rigorous data validation and cleansing processes, automating data management activities where possible, and will perform detailed data analysis to identify trends, anomalies and data quality issues.
You will be a key participant and contributor to Agile ceremonies, including daily standups, weekly sprint planning, monthly retrospectives and workshops.
You will engage with users and stakeholders regularly, capturing their needs, understanding and mapping business processes, and making recommendations and changes to improve them where possible. A key stakeholder group is our Data Guardian community which is responsible for maintaining a large proportion of our workforce data. You will ensure they remain supported and engaged through communication channels and regular meetings, informing them of changes to data products, processes, and new releases, and basing continual improvement on user feedback.
To help picture your life at MoJ Justice Digital please take a look at our blog and our Digital and Technology strategy 2025
Key Responsibilities:
1. Data analysis and visualisation
Work with users and stakeholders to identify, document and analyse the existing landscape and future data needs, translating them into data analysis and reporting requirements.
Create and own your Jira tickets to support sprints and backlogs.
Identify, collect and migrate data to and from a range of systems, managing and cleaning data.
Summarise and present analysis and insight in the most appropriate and compelling format for users.
Create and maintain dashboards and reports using PowerBI and Orgvue.
Identify and put in place data validation, and maintain and continually improve workforce data.
Maintain and develop Orgvue’s architecture, scripts, properties, and datasets.
Support communication of the service, sharing information with community colleagues and others.
Be engaged with, and actively contribute to, the data analysis community which is part of the Government, Digital and Data (GDD) community .
Deliver against operational and strategic plans, ensuring proposed solutions align with business goals and objectives and achieve the required outcomes and expected benefits.
Identify opportunities to improve business data, and support implementation.
2. Business analysis
Engage with users to identify user needs and define KPIs.
Translate business needs into specifications for data solutions.
Understand existing business processes, identify gaps, and recommend and implement improvements to support improved data.
Document and maintain data-related business processes and flows.
If this feels like an exciting challenge, is something you are enthusiastic about, and you would like to join our team, please read on and apply!
Benefits
37 hours per week and flexible working options including working from home, working part-time, job sharing, or working compressed hours.
A £1k per person learning budget is in place to support all our people, with access to best in class conferences and seminars, accreditation with professional bodies, fully funded vocational programmes and e-learning platforms
Staff have 10% time to dedicate to develop & grow
Generous civil service pension based on defined benefit scheme, with employer contributions of 28.97% from April 1st 2024 (Contribution Rates)
25 days leave (plus bank holidays) and 1 privilege day usually taken around the Kings’ birthday. 5 additional days of leave once you have reached 5 years of service.
Compassionate maternity, adoption, and shared parental leave policies, with up to 26 weeks leave at full pay, 13 weeks with partial pay, and 13 weeks further leave. And maternity support/paternity leave at full pay for 2 weeks, too!
Wellbeing support including access to the Calm app.
Bike loans up to £2500 and secure bike parking (subject to availability and location)
Season ticket loans, childcare vouchers and eye-care vouchers.
5 days volunteering paid leave.
Free membership to BCS, the Chartered Institute for IT.
Some offices may have a subsidised onsite Gym.
Person Specification
Essential:
Experience with statistical methods and data analysis, preferably on capability or workforce planning data.
Demonstrable experience engaging with stakeholders to translate business needs into data analysis and reporting solutions.
Demonstrable experience in ETL (Extract, Transform and Load) identifying, collecting and migrating data to and from a range of systems and sources into a single view.
Experience documenting and maintaining standards for data models, data dictionaries, reporting dictionaries and reporting standards.
Good mathematics and IT skills gained through qualifications and/or experience.
Data Visualisation:
Experience in Power BI and/or Power Automate for data visualisation and analytics.
Advanced skills in Microsoft Excel, including pivot tables and vlookups.
Data Modelling, Cleansing & Enrichment:
Experience of data modelling, lakes and pipelines.
Experience developing, maintaining and troubleshooting API integrations between platforms and products using languages such as Python or similar.
Business Analysis:
Analyse business goals, objectives, functions and processes, using relevant information and data to support the definition of requirements, and document business data processes and flows.
Business Process Improvement
Identify opportunities to improve business performance within a defined project.
Willingness to be assessed against the requirements for BPSS clearance
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.
How to Apply
Candidates must submit a CV and Personal Statement (up to 750 words), which describes how you meet the requirements set out in the Person Specification above.
In Justice Digital, we recruit using a combination of the Government Digital and Data Profession Capability and Success Profiles Frameworks. We will assess your Experience, Technical Skills and the following Behaviours during the assessment process:
Communicating & Influencing
A diverse panel will review your application against the Person Specification above.
Successful candidates who meet the required standard will then be invited to a 1-hour panel interview held via video conference. This interview will commence with a technical exercise, followed by a Q&A format based on the person specification above.
Should we receive a high volume of applications, a pre-sift based on your experience with statistical methods and data analysis, preferably with capability or workforce planning data will be conducted before the sift.
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.
Terms & Conditions
Please review our Terms & Conditions which set out how we recruit and provide further information related to theJustice Digital Recruitment Terms & Conditions role and salary arrangements.
If you have any questions, please feel free to contact recruitment@digital.justice.gov.uk
