Defence Digital Lead Business Analyst
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- Apply before 11:55 pm on Monday 2nd June 2025
- Location: MOD Corsham, Westwells Road, Corsham, Wiltshire, SN13 9NR
- Salary: £59,690
Defence Digital ensures our Armed Forces remain among the most technologically advanced in the world. We do this by putting innovative and effective technology into the hands of over 200,000 users, from the boardroom to the front line.
We lead on cutting-edge data science, automation, and cybersecurity at scale. Our mission goes beyond the battlefield by leading humanitarian efforts and driving digital innovation that impacts lives across the globe.
Defence Digital forms part of Strategic Command which manages the MOD’s joint capabilities for the Army, RAF, and Royal Navy.
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Job description
As a Lead Business Analyst, you will have a good understanding of the enterprise and business architecture arena and be able to work in highly complex problem spaces, typically spanning multiple products or services. You will have the required knowledge and skills in Business Analysis and Modelling, Agile working, and Business Process Testing.
You will have a track record of working across boundaries within a highly complex ecosystem, ensuring services are planned, delivered, and maintained in a safe and secure way, with minimal disruption. You will utilise your user experience and systems analysis skills, applying them to various methods and tools.
Responsibilities:
- Ensuring the benefits of Defence Digital's services and products are managed and realised.
- Documenting conceptual models to support strategic planning and decision-making.
- Helping to define required capabilities and support organisational changes to create operating models that meet Defence Digital’s objectives.
- Acting as a recognised expert and advocate for the approaches, continuously reflecting and challenging the team.
- Having functional management or people management accountability, or a combination of both.
- Supporting the professional development of the portfolio and community and mentoring others.
For further information on the role and duties of a Lead Business Analyst, please refer to the Government Digital and Data Capability Framework: Business analyst - Government Digital and Data Profession Capability Framework
Person specification
With a focus on delivering service quality, risk mitigation, secure operations, and the prioritisation of demand to meet the needs of the customers, you’ll need to be self-starting, collaborative, dynamic, and ambitious about excellent customer service, operational support, and mission assurance.
It’s vital that you have excellent interpersonal and communication skills, with the ability to develop, maintain, and enhance working relationships. Engaging with users and stakeholders regularly to help shape their demands with a focus on optimising reuse is crucial.
A collaborative, flexible, and can-do team player is essential in this role, along with someone who feels comfortable working in a fast-paced environment with competing priorities.
When submitting your CV, please highlight your career history and experience relevant to this role. Additionally, refer to the "Things You Need to Know" section of the advert and provide a personal statement (max. 1250 words) demonstrating the essential criteria listed below:
- Experience in producing business process models in widely recognised languages (e.g., UML or BPMN).
- Evidence of working with a range of stakeholders to understand their business processes, and how modelling them has resulted in opportunities for improvement.
- Strong background in analysis on delivery and process design to support digital projects within an Information Communication Technology environment.
Behaviours
We'll assess you against these behaviours during the selection process:
- Leadership
- Changing and Improving
- Communicating and Influencing
- Delivering at Pace
Technical skills
We'll assess you against these technical skills during the selection process:
- Business Process Modelling Techniques
- User Interviewing
Benefits
- An environment with flexible working options
- A culture encouraging inclusion and diversity
- 25 days annual leave rising (1 day per year) to 30 days upon completion of 5 years’ service
- Ability to roll over up to 10 days annual leave per year
- In addition to 8 public holidays per year you will also receive leave for HM The King's birthday
- Minimum of 15 Days Special Leave in a rolling 12-month period to for volunteer military or emergency service reserve commitments
- Special Paid Leave for volunteering up to 6 days a year
- Enhanced parental and adoption leave
- Employee Assistance Programme to support your well-being
- Most sites have good travel links with free car parking; many also have other facilities such as a Sports & Social Club and Gyms
- Benefit Pension Scheme: Civil Service pension
- Please see Benefits link for more info: Civilian Discover My Benefits (mod.gov.uk)
Equality and Diversity
Our people are at the heart of everything we do at Defence Digital. It’s vital that our workforce reflects the diversity of both our audience and the wider society in the UK, so we’re proud to be an equal opportunities employer and we actively seek candidates from diverse backgrounds and communities. We also recognise the importance of a good work life balance, so we do everything we can to accommodate flexible working, including part-time and job shares for all our roles. Please let us know in your application or at any stage throughout the process if this is something you want to explore.
AI Usage in Job Applications
We encourage the use of technology to streamline the job application process. Artificial Intelligence (AI) tools can be helpful in generating ideas, improving writing style, and increasing efficiency. However, it is essential that any content submitted as part of a job application is truthful, accurate, and a genuine reflection of the applicant’s qualifications and experiences. Any use of AI should be supplementary to your own knowledge and abilities. Ultimately, the application should demonstrate your unique skills and suitability for the role.
At sift, you will be assessed against your CV, Statement of suitability.
We’ll assess you against these Behaviours and Technical Skills during the interview process:
Behaviours:
- Leadership
- Changing and Improving
- Communicating and Influencing
- Delivering at Pace
Technical Skills:
- Business Process Modelling Techniques
- User Interviewing
Please note that you will be required to deliver a presentation (maximum 5 minutes) on a subject that will be provided to you in advance of the interview. We will be conducting the sift during the week commencing 02/06/25, with interviews held via Teams during the week commencing 16/06/25. We will try to offer as much flexibility as possible, but it may not be feasible to provide alternative dates for interviews or assessments.
The Civil Service embraces diversity and promotes equality of opportunity. There is a Disability Confident Scheme (DCS) for candidates with disabilities who meet the minimum selection criteria. If you need to advise us that you need additional help or reasonable adjustments for the recruitment process, please contact: DBSCivPers-Resourcingteam3@mod.gov.uk .
As a result of the changes to the UK immigration rules which came in to effect on 1 January 2021, the Ministry of Defence will only offer sponsorship for a skilled worker visa under the points based system, where a role has been deemed to be business critical. This role does not meet that category and we will not sponsor a visa. It is therefore NOT open to applications from those who will require sponsorship under the points based system.
Should you apply for this role and be found to require sponsorship, your application will be rejected and any provisional offer of employment withdrawn.
Feedback will only be provided if you attend an interview or assessment.
This job is broadly open to the following groups:
- UK nationals
- nationals of the Republic of Ireland
- nationals of Commonwealth countries who have the right to work in the UK
- nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities with settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS) (opens in a new window)
- nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities who have made a valid application for settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS)
- individuals with limited leave to remain or indefinite leave to remain who were eligible to apply for EUSS on or before 31 December 2020
- Turkish nationals, and certain family members of Turkish nationals, who have accrued the right to work in the Civil Service
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