Senior Business Analyst

The Corporate Services Directorate within Food Standards Scotland (FSS) provides a range of services to support the organisation to deliver its statutory

obligations and strategic goals. These services include Project Management Office,

Finance, HR, IT, Records and Information Management, Facilities Management, Health and Safety, and Administrative support. Most of the Corporate Services work relates to the strategic outcome of FSS being efficient and effective.

FSS has an established central IT team that currently is responsible for providing and supporting all aspects of Information Technology and Digital Transformation.

Reporting to the Head of Digital Solutions, the Senior Business Analyst (Digital Solutions) is responsible for engaging with representatives throughout the organisation in order to understand business operations and identify opportunities for improvement.

The work of the Senior Business Analyst will involve building an understanding of business processes and their context, and to apply a degree of technical knowledge to translate these into potential digital solutions.

The Senior Business Analyst (Digital Solutions) is a dynamic role, which requires the post holder to facilitate collaboration and lead effective communication with key stakeholders to support design, build and delivery of digital solutions to meet the user needs. The successful candidate will be pro-active, flexible, responsive to change, and possess the ability to build and maintain relationships with key stakeholders in technical and business environments.

All roles in the Digital, Data and Technology profession are aligned to the DDaT Competency Framework (https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/digital-data-and-technology-profession-capability-framework). This role is aligned to DDaT Job Role in the 'Technical' job family.

If you are selected to attend an assessment, we will ask you to complete a technical assessment and an interview as part of the processes. You will be tested against the technical competencies appropriate for the role as detailed on the framework, as well as the Skills for Success competencies listed below.

Improving Performance
Analysis and Use of Evidence
Communications and Engagement
People Management

No specific qualifications required for this post.

1. A solid track record of business analysis in a digital/ICT project environment.
2. Knowledge and use of techniques, and practices including writing business cases, carrying out as-is and to-be process analysis, documenting technical and non-technical requirements.
3. Excellent relationship management skills across technical and business streams, along with experience of running and facilitating workshops.
4. Experience of working within an Agile, multi-disciplinary team environment, and the ability to deliver iterative design components (including user journeys) to the development team.

To be confirmed.

For further information on this vacancy please download and review the “Person Specification” which you will find below.

To apply, you must fully complete and submit an online application via this website before the closing date as well as a CV (no longer than two pages) setting out your career history, with key responsibilities and achievements.

In addition to your CV, you should fill in a personal statement (no longer than 700 words) explaining why you consider your personal skills, qualities and experience suitable for this role, with particular reference to the criteria in the person specification.

When considering how your experience relates to the role, please tailor your CV and personal statement to reflect the role and the essential skills/criteria as described in the job description/person specification.

To learn more about this opportunity, please contact tigan.daspan@fss.scot