Business Analyst Application Development

Job Description

Business Analyst - Single RecordSalary: £38,890 to £44,503Hours: 37.5hrs per weekTenure:PermanentWe have an exciting opportunity for a highly motivated individual to join the Single Record - Application Directorate as a Business Analyst, whose role will be to support the delivery of effective business analysis services to the Government. In particular we are looking for an individual to accelerate the development of the portal.The portal is used across Wales to support in delivering improved patient care. The Portal is the point of access for professionals into the national data repositories which store patient results and documents created by a range of specialist systems. The combination of these data items form the electronic patient record in Wales, the portal presents patient data at the point of need, regardless of where it was captured.The business analysis team supports the elicitation, development and documentation of requirements for through the application of industry-standard business analysis and requirements gathering and documentation techniques.Job OverviewThis role is within the Application Development & Support Directorate providing business analysis services to projects, programmes and services on an assignment basis. A Business Analyst will typically work on a number of assignments simultaneously; assignments will vary in scale and complexity resulting in assignments that vary from a small number of weeks to a number of months in duration. The focus of the Business Analysis function is to clearly elicit, define and document stakeholder requirements. However, this is a full-lifecycle role with possible involvement from business case development to operational review, via requirements, design, development, test and implementation. Practical experience and knowledge of the following would be particularly advantageous:-*As-is business process mapping*Requirements elicitation*Working in an agile environment*Creating user stories*Problem solving skillsEducated to Masters level (or equivalent qualification / experience) *Familiar with modelling and analysis tools (e.g. Enterprise Architect), methods and standards (e.g. UML, BPMN). *In-depth knowledge of business modelling techniques and experience in obtaining input from and communicating modelling results to senior managers for agreement. *Knowledge of business processes to advise database designers and other application development team members on the details of data structures and associated components. *Experience of applying a variety of analytical techniques to information and quantifying result integrity based upon assessment of sources and techniques applied.*Experience of consulting activities and techniques including facilitating stakeholder groups.*Experience of process analysis, assessment and change including financial, cultural, technological, organisational and environmental factors. Further experience of establishing customer requirements and identifying how these map to process requirements.*Expertise with the application of Business Analysis techniques, methods and tools; experience of the implementation of Business Analysis techniques, methods and tools as well as the enhancement of their application.*Experience in defining, documenting and working on projects across all phases either alone or with a small team.*Experience in identifying and assessing risks to the success of the project. Experience of producing realistic plans (quality, risk and communication plans) and contributing towards lessons learned.*Experience in investigative work for strategy studies, business requirements and*Expertise with a majority of Business Analysis specialisms and techniques. Experience of supervising others in the application of these specialisms and techniques.*Experience of evaluation, development, demonstration or implementation of research activities.*Understanding of opportunities provided by the strategic application of IT. Experience of investigation and development of innovative methods of exploiting IT.*Experience of enterprise modelling and architecture demonstrating improved business performance.*Experience of logical modelling as well as component specification and design; understanding of technical planning and assurance; knowledgeable in development and integration. Certes Computing (and all of its subsidiary companies) is committed to promoting equality and diversity in its business operations.