SC Cleared Business Analyst

Candidates must hold active SC Clearance to be considered for this opportunity.

This role will require 1 day a week, working on-site at Barrow-In-Furness.

Role Specific
Investigates programme situations where there is complexity and ambiguity.
Adopts a holistic view to identify and analyse problems and opportunities.
Elicits, identifies, and prioritises programme needs.
Models current and desired scenarios as directed.
Develops, communicates, and implements the strategic, and operational management of the programme.
Coordinates and manages the development of architecture across the programme.
Maintains a stable, viable architecture and ensures consistency of design and adherence to appropriate functional standards.
Carries out capability improvement assignments, such as maturity or performance assessments.
Takes responsibility for understanding client requirements, collecting data, delivering analysis and problem resolution.

Core Duties
Able to perform intermediate project reporting & scheduling.
Able to undertake intermediate problem solving typically based on previous experience.
Have a good knowledge of Business processes and procedures.
Administration and general office skills including spreadsheets/ Microsoft packages.
Able to lead a small non-complex project or a work package of a larger project.
Able to manage the full project lifecycle to ensure that, over time, the needs of customers/users continue to be met and that financial and other benefits are achieved.
Identify, assesses and manages risks to the success of the project.
Applies appropriate PM methods and tools whether predictive (plan-driven) approaches or adaptive (iterative/agile) approaches.
Agrees project approach with stakeholders, and prepares realistic plans (including quality, risk and communications plans) and tracks activities against the project schedule, managing stakeholder involvement as appropriate.
Consolidate expertise from multiple sources, including third party experts, to provide coherent advice to further organisational objectives. Supports and promotes the development and sharing of specialist knowledge within the organisation.

Qualifications that would be good to have:
The TOGAF® Standard
British Computer Society
Business Architecture Guild