Senior Cyber Business Analyst (Inside IR35)

The Cabinet Office supports the Prime Minister and ensures the effective running of government. The Cabinet Office is also the corporate headquarters for the government, in partnership with HM Treasury, and takes the lead in certain critical policy areas. More information about the Cabinet Office can be found on its website at https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/cabinet-office

As a Senior Business Analyst, your main responsibilities would be:

• Build a deep understanding of existing business processes
• Understand new business and stakeholder requirements through common requirement elicitation techniques
• Work closely with user researchers to understand user needs, write user stories and acceptance criteria documenting both user and business needs as well as enabling development teams to understand the context behind them
• Liaise with engineers and technical architects to identify and select appropriate technical solutions based on a deep understanding of requirements
• Support product managers to form and groom product backlogs, using evidence and data to drive prioritisation and scope
• Liaise with service managers, product owners and delivery managers to support the necessary business change activities required
• Ensure business requirements are fully understood by external suppliers and work with those suppliers to support delivery through planning, implementation and testing
• Carry out functional testing of completed user stories, ensuring services meet requirements and other internal standards, documenting and managing defects as they arise

You’ll have relevant experience in:

• Please note that, due to the nature of this requirement, active SC Clearance is a pre-requisite and application without cannot be considered.
• A deep understanding of agile, and have experience of working in a dynamic, fast paced agile environment, as well as working collaboratively and openly with others
• Experience working with a broad range of stakeholders, including at senior civil servant level, to elicit business requirements and model complex business processes
• Experience of documenting user needs and requirements in the form of user stories but also have experience of more traditional requirements documentation
• Strong communication, presentation and facilitation skills
• Experience working with backlog and defect tracking tools such as Trello and JIRA
• Experience working on and prioritising multiple projects at the same time

It’s desirable that you have:

• Experience in Cyber Security
• Experience of delivering services in a regulated environment, or to a high level of security classification.
• Experience of managing and coordinating third party suppliers.

Should you require reasonable adjustments at any point during the recruitment process or if there is a more accessible way for us to communicate, please do let me know.

In applying for this role, you acknowledge the following, this role falls in scope of the Off Payroll Working in the Public Sector legislation. Any rates of payment quoted will reflect the gross rate per day for the assignment and will be subject to appropriate taxes and statutory costs. As such the payment to the intermediary and your income resulting from this contract will be different.

Please be aware that this role can only be worked within the UK and not Overseas.