Candidates

As a Business Analyst, you work as part of an Agile Scrum Team, having responsibility for understanding user needs, working closely with our business partners, translating problems or requirements into user stories and defining acceptance criteria. Business Analysts are highly customer focused and are responsible for building highly collaborative internal and external stakeholder relationships, supporting their scrum teams to achieve team goals. Analytical thinking, problem-solving and communication skills are core to effective business analysis.

Accountable for:

• Well defined user stories
• well defined acceptance criteria
• building and maintaining collaborative working relationships with scrum team and all customers/stakeholders

Duties

• contributes to scrum team activities to ensure delivery of team goals
• responsible for building highly collaborative internal and external stakeholder relationships
• lead in producing user stories and acceptance criteria
• supports effective business analysis through analytical thinking, problem-solving and communication skills
• contribute to sprint planning sessions, daily stand ups and retrospectives
• lead, contribute and support use research activities

Skills and qualifications

• ISEB/BCS Accreditation, to Diploma level in Business Analysis (desirable);
• ISEB/ISTQB Foundation Certificate in Software Testing (desirable);
• Membership of British Computer Society (desirable);
(Can be attained within 1-2 years of commencing role).
• Knowledge of IT products and experience of working within Business and IT Requirements;
• Experience of identifying/shaping IT enabling opportunities;
• Experience of working as part of an Agile Scrum team;
• Highly developed interpersonal skills;
• Highly developed analytical and critical thinking;
• Commercial awareness;
• Experience/Knowledge of Departmental Strategies, standards/legislation & HMRC IT Strategy.

As a Digital Software Architect, you will be joining our clients rapidly expanding digital delivery centre. You will be tasked with designing a microservice-based digital service on a national scale, you will be delivering web based UI’s and ReST API’s. You will make use of open source technologies and be involved in the business strategy and supporting the solution throughout it’s construction.

Technologies

Scala Java JSON Microservices Agile Scrum Methodology MongoDB JavaScript

Demonstrable experience in the above is key to your selection in joining this revolution within the digital space.

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We are looking for a versatile Business Analyst with experience working within Agile teams to develop business analysis products including user journeys, value streams, detailed process maps / operating procedures, well defined User Stories and acceptance criteria, in order to deliver a more efficient, user-focused service. The successful candidate will work on projects within the Immigration Portfolio which focus on improving the technology services used to deliver the visa and immigration service for the UK. Deliverables will include value streams, customer journeys, business processes, delivery roadmaps, volumetrics, business cases and user stories. run workshops, engage closely with business users. The successful candidate will be working with Home Office civil servants, contractors and suppliers. Other roles within the team: Back end and Front end developers, BA, Interaction Designer, User Researcher, DevOps, Technical Architect, Delivery Manager, Product Owner and Product Manager and should have Security Clearance – Prefer someone with SC level, if not, what level do you have and are you able to go through SC?

Essential skills and experience:

• Significant experience in Business Analysis (Minimum 5 years)
• Proven-Experience in decomposing and simplifying complex problems (National-Scale)
• Significant experience working with Senior Stakeholders with proven ability to influence and manage expectations on deliverables
• Epic and Story writing in accordance with standard Agile best-practice
• Data analysis and modelling experience
• Rules-Based Management System experience
• Excellent communication skills (written and oral)
• Experience working in an Agile environment
• Experience working in the public sector
• Government Digital Service experience

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We are working with a global digital transformation consultancy, and are looking for a GDS Business Analyst to work on exciting digital projects, across the UK, within the public sector. They are looking for multiple experienced Business Analysts who have a background of working with GDS and taking products through Government Digital Services. Therefore, having GDS is essential. They are looking for professionals with demonstratable evidence of working with Agile/Scrum. The role will work as part of a multiple disciplinary teams ensuring the accelerated application development across clients. To be successful in this role, you’ll need a rich combination of experience, proven skills, and personal attributes. See below to find out if you’re the person we’re looking for. Candidates must be eligible to obtain SC clearance. This role is fully remote but will require some visit to the UK offices- office locations are London, Leeds, Newcastle, Worthing and Edinburgh.

Responsibilities:

• Strategic business analysis services to business partners,
• Responsible for reviewing assigned business processes from end-to-end to identify and address operational, financial, and technological risks.
• Identify opportunities to improve efficiency.
• Managing a small team and mentoring junior team members.

Requirements:

• Previous experience working in Agile Methodology
• Experience of GDS/UK Gov
• Familiarity with Jira and Confluence tools as well as MS office
• Client facing skills and ability to establish and maintain good client relationships.
• Previous experience in leading a small team of Business Analysts
• Excellent knowledge of CX, previous experience working with UX/UI.
• Good communication and organizational skills.
• Ability to work in a fast-paced environment.
• Flexibility and understanding IT and business environments

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We are working with a global digital transformation consulting firm, looking for a Product Owner to work on exciting digital projects, across the UK, within the public sector. They are looking for experienced Product Owners who have a background of working with GDS and taking products through Government Digital Services. Therefore, having GDS is essential. They are looking for professionals with demonstratable evidence of working with Agile/Scrum. The role will work as part of a multiple disciplinary teams ensuring the accelerated application development across clients. To be successful in this role, you’ll need a rich combination of experience, proven skills, and personal attributes. See below to find out if you’re the person we’re looking for. Candidates must be eligible to obtain SC clearance. This role is fully remote but will require some visit to the UK offices- office locations are London, Leeds, Newcastle, Worthing and Edinburgh. The role You will be working for a improves people’s lives by helping our clients to transform – digitally, culturally, innovatively, and inclusively. We’re trusted to do some of the most important and exciting work in a generation. That’s why we need you – we're looking for people who bring the passion, talent and vision needed to drive sustainable change with better outcomes for society and for the environment. The largest part of their business is in Government and the wider public sector. They retain our clients, and they love our people. So, our business is all about the customer – and it’s all about you: •Bring your ideas, be brave, be bold, learn, and drive opportunities for growth and to try new things •Have autonomy, with as much support as you need •Work with people from lots of different backgrounds to help us drive new thinking and do better work. Package: Excellent renumeration, plus many benefits that focus on wellbeing, quality of life and family. The Practice manages, enhances, and maintains custom applications or packaged software by infusing smart automation & robotics, the usage of Agile and DevOps methodologies, and a drive towards continuous delivery & deployment. With an integrated, comprehensive application development, application management and testing approach, we focus on adding business and IT value to our clients. They assign product managers from our practice to customer projects. Working within an agile multidisciplinary team to create, support and continuously improve products that meet user needs. You will take products through discovery, alpha, beta and live phases of development with the goal of making services and products simpler, easier and faster to use. We are looking for professionals with demonstratable evidence of working with Agile/Scrum. The role will work as part of a multiple disciplinary teams ensuring the accelerated application development across our clients. The role may require frequent travel to client sites, several days a week. Signs of success To be successful in this role, you’ll need a rich combination of experience, proven skills, and personal attributes. See below to find out if you’re the person we’re looking for. You'll be expected to travel to customer and client sites UK wide, working from client/office/home locations as appropriate. Flexible working arrangements will be available. Candidates must be eligible to obtain SC clearance Essential Duties & Responsiblites: As Product manager you will: - You’’ll be responsible for the quality of the products. - You will be expected to use your knowledge of user needs and business goals to frame problems and set priorities for your delivery teams. - Define, explain and iterate a product vision that is compelling to your users, team and stakeholders. - You will be a champion for user needs, managing a backlog, documenting product knowledge, and communicating plans and progress through various channels including blogs, stakeholder meetings and demos. - Communicating efficiently and work together within a multi-disciplinary team, fostering the open and collaborative culture to deliver a product and continuously improve it through several iterations. - engage with users and stakeholders through a range of channels to encourage awareness and use of your product - Presenting and depicting the rationale of findings in simple, engaging and easy to understand business terms to a diverse group of stakeholders. - Set measurable goals for your product and report against these to demonstrate progress against stated benefits - Play an active role in the product manager community, sharing your learning and celebrating progress made by other people and team Person Specification Skills we can’t do without: - You know about agile methodology and can apply an agile mindset to all aspects of your work. You can work in a fast-paced, evolving environment and use an iterative method and flexible approach to enable rapid delivery. - User-Centred Design Services which can be demonstrated through successful project delivery and the achievement of key success measures for projects. - You understand and can work within given constraints (including but not limited to technology and policy, and regulatory, financial and legal constraints). - You can secure funding for agile delivery through a business case and through delivering a good pitch . You can prioritise spending based on return on investment and strategic intent. - You understand the different phases of product delivery and can contribute to, plan or run these. You can maintain a product or process through the delivery phases, into live and then into retirement. You understand incident management and service support so that products are built effectively. - You can manage the operational process of designing and running a product or service throughout its entire product life cycle. - You can understand and identify problems, analysing and helping to identify the appropriate solution. You can classify and prioritise problems, document their causes and implement remedies. - You know how to use a range of product management principles and approaches. You can capture and translate user needs into deliverables. You know how to define the minimum viable product and make decisions about priorities. You can write user stories and acceptance criteria. - You know how to work with a range of specialists in multidisciplinary teams. - You understand users and can identify who they are and what their needs are, based on evidence. You can translate user stories and propose design approaches or services to meet these needs. You can engage in meaningful interactions and relationships with users. You put users first and can manage competing priorities. - Help support the vision, roadmaps and delivery of other products in your programme - You will have experience of delivering/working in a large-scale software delivery and support organisation. - Good collaboration and communication skills, particularly with Development teams and influencing them. - Passion about learning new development technologies and ways of working to improve the outputs of teams and improve customer outcomes. - Designing and delivering end-to-end digital products in government, Government Digital Service (GDS) agile delivery framework

Skills we’d like:

- SC (security cleared) Cleared or ability to obtain SC Clearance .

As a member of of our clients Digital Transformation Team, you will operate within a fast-paced Consulting environment, comprised of more than 850 diverse and high performing experts worldwide. Their teams work on challenging digital projects that deliver creative and innovative solutions across multiple industries and sectors. They deliver results for their clients by exploiting digital opportunities, ethically. Year on year they have delivered multiple award-winning projects recognised by the UK Management Consultancies Association. Their work is centred on corporate social responsibility, to ensure that what they deliver enables their clients and members of society to live, work and develop sustainably, in a safe and secure information space.

About our client

You will be part of an organisation that is a strategic leader in Decarbonisation. They are Europe’s number one in Cloud, Cybersecurity and High-Performance Computing and the worldwide Information Technology partner for many sporting organisations. With over a 100,000 employees in more than 70 countries there is no shortage of routes to develop and be your best self.

What they offer

With this role you will join the Digital Workplace Sub-practice within the Digital Transformation team. This practice is responsible for working with clients to define, design and implement the next generation of workplace solutions which provide employees with tools to drive efficiency and accelerate business performance. The Digital Workplace team works across different industries and sectors, including Financial Services, Health, Manufacturing, Defence, Retail, Media, Utilities, Public sector, Retail, Telecommunications, and Transportation, supporting our clients in their digital workplace journey.

What are we looking for

We are looking for an individual who can demonstrate excellent problem solving and analytical skills, with an understanding of modern Workplace technologies e.g. M365, G Suite, etc. and passion for expanding their knowledge in this field. The range of work we can win is quite wide in defining, designing and implementing the next generation of workplace solutions and hence we are looking for a wide range of skills along with some experience in engaging in projects that have transformed the workplace environment.

Required skill set and experience

• Well-rounded set of consulting skills at intermediate levels
• Able to take responsibility for deliverables, with an aptitude for identifying opportunities
• Experience working independently with clients leading stakeholder interviews to analyse current services and identify issues or pain-points and potential improvements
• Experience defining and integrating digital solutions into an organisation’s strategy, vision, and aspirations
• Competence in collecting and analysing customer data to produce insights and reports
• Preparing, supporting and leading workshops to play-back findings and explore solutions to specific issues
• Report writing and presentation skills – ability to summarise the key findings and recommendations
• Problem solving skills

Desired skill set and experience

• Experience in supporting development of workplace strategies, rollout strategies and roadmaps
• Documenting requirements, Persona development, and producing user experience/journey Maps
• Insight of modern workplace technologies and willingness to learn modern technologies

This role is UK based and may require UK domestic and international travel, as the need arises. Candidates must meet all visa and work permit requirements to successfully reside and work within the UK. .

We are working with a global digital transformation consulting firm, looking for a Digital Business Analyst to work on exciting digital projects, across the UK, within the public sector. They are looking for experienced Digital Business Analyst who have strong experience in Agile. Background of working for a consultancy is preferred They are looking for professionals with demonstratable evidence of working with Agile/Scrum. The role will work as part of a multiple disciplinary teams ensuring the accelerated application development across clients. To be successful in this role, you’ll need a rich combination of experience, proven skills, and personal attributes. See below to find out if you’re the person we’re looking for. Candidates must be eligible to obtain SC clearance. This role can be based remote but you will get opportunity to work in offices situated across the country.

As a Digital Business Analyst Consultant, you’ll:

Help our clients understand and explore how, where and why to apply new digital technologies & platforms. Advising, designing and delivering excellent products and services for our clients to transform their businesses and deliver real value. Play a pivotal role in end-to-end user centred design projects, working between design, product, development and test. Work as part of a multi-disciplinary Agile Scrum team, having responsibility for understanding user needs, working closely with our business partners, translating problems or requirements into user stories and defining acceptance criteria. Be highly customer focused and responsible for building stakeholder relationships and using your analytical thinking, problem-solving and communication skills to help achieve the Scrum teams’ goals.

Skills you will need:

• Experience in a user-centred product or service development projects.
• Experience working in a multi-disciplinary Agile Scrum team, facilitating and supporting the end-to-end delivery, from research and design through to development and testing.
• Ability to lead the translation of user needs and business requirements into user stories and acceptance criteria.
• Ability to be the intermediary between both business requirements and user needs, and between waterfall and Agile delivery.
• Proficient in the use of requirements capturing methodology toolsets e.g. JIRA.
• Experience in technical business analysis with a familiarity of architectural concepts such as microservice and legacy architecture, API’s and cloud infrastructure.
• Responsible for building highly collaborative internal and external stakeholder relationships, with both the ability to deal with conflict management and to influence key stakeholders.
• Support and lead scrum team activities and ceremonies to ensure delivery of team goals.
• Support effective business analysis through analytical thinking, problem-solving and communication skills.

Bonus Skills:

• Experience across different sectors, including in Public Sector, Utilities, Financial Services, Consumer Products and Retail
• Experience working with Government Digital Service (GDS) service standards
• Experience supporting internal operations of the team through activities such as recruitment, client development, line management, delivering trainings and mentoring
• Certifications across Business Analysis, Agile Delivery, User Centred Design etc.

We are hiring all levels of experience. Whether you have been working as part of a small team or leading large or complex engagements, we have the role for you. Potential is also just as important to us as having the required skills. If you have the right mindset and you’re passionate about the role, we will be able to provide you with bespoke training and the support to build all the skills you need. .

We are working with a global digital transformation consulting firm, looking for a Scrum Master to work on exciting digital projects, across the UK, within the public sector. They are looking for experienced Scrum Masters who have strong experience in Agile. Background of working for a consultancy is preferred They are looking for professionals with demonstratable evidence of working with Agile/Scrum. The role will work as part of a multiple disciplinary teams ensuring the accelerated application development across clients. To be successful in this role, you’ll need a rich combination of experience, proven skills, and personal attributes. See below to find out if you’re the person we’re looking for. Candidates must be eligible to obtain SC clearance. This role can be based remote but you will get opportunity to work in offices situated across the country. Job specification:

As a Scrum Master, you'll:

• • Guide teams and organisations on how to use Agile/Scrum practices
  • Assess the Agile Maturity of teams and organisations and coach them to higher levels of maturity, at a pace that is sustainable and comfortable
  • Identify and support the scrum team and stakeholders in dealing with blockers and impediments
  • Build a trusting and safe environment where problems can be raised with an emphasis on problem-solving and continual learning
  • Assist with internal and external communication, improving transparency and information flow
  • Support and educate the Product Owner, especially on refining and maintaining the product backlog
  • Provide support to the team using a servant leadership style whenever possible and leading by example
  • Facilitate reviews, retrospectives, daily stand ups and planning meetings
  • Foster a culture of collaboration with other scrum masters, and building a network with other agile champions across the organisation
  • Put into practice agile values and principles from the Agile Manifesto.
  • Contribute to the further growth and expertise of Digital Factory and the Business Technology unit within the client through business and practice development activities (E.g. Enhancing
  • learning and development materials, publishing thought leadership articles and mentoring others)

Skills you'll need:

• Proven experience in undertaking the Scrum Master role in a team that has been applying Scrum principles, practices, and theory
• Experience in delivery of multi-disciplinary projects and working in cross-functional teams
• Experience of Agile project management tools such as Team Foundation Server or the Atlassian suite of products such as Jira, Confluence
• Understanding and experience of widely accepted successful Agile techniques
• Good skills and knowledge of servant leadership, facilitation, situational awareness, conflict resolution, continual improvement, empowerment, increasing transparency and measuring success
• Knowledge of various well-documented patterns and techniques for filling in the intentional gaps left in the Scrum approach
• Excellent communication skills with the ability to connect and engage across multiple teams, business units and organisations at multiple levels of seniority
• Previous experience of mentoring colleagues
• Knowledge of business requirements prioritisation techniques
• Ability to lead a team of resources across multiple sites, whilst building solid business relationships
• Excellent written, verbal and interpersonal skills; must be capable of focusing and maintaining project direction and be able to lead and motivate a team of specialist technical and/or
• business resources, as well as management of stakeholders
• Experience of managing projects with business and technology deliverables and / or changes involving external third-party providers

We are hiring all levels of experience. Whether you have been working as part of a small team or leading large or complex engagements, we have the role for you. Potential is also just as important to us as having the required skills. If you have the right mindset and you’re passionate about the role, we will be able to provide you with bespoke training and the support to build all the skills you need. .