Senior Business Analyst (Ref: 21446)

Job summary

Job description

Senior Business Analyst

Location: National*

Closing Date: 11th September 2026

Interviews: Week Commencing the 14th of September

Grade: Grade 7 (MoJ candidates who are on a specialist grade will be able to retain this grade on lateral transfer)

Salary**: London: £63,343 – £70,725 (May Include an allowance of £332) National: £58,511 – £65,329

Working pattern: Full-time, part-time, flexible working*

*Minimum 28-30 hours over 4 days

Contract Type: Permanent

Number of vacancies: 20

Vacancy number: 21446

*We offer a hybrid working model, allowing for a balance between remote work and time spent in your local office. Office locations can be found ON THIS MAP

Please note that unless you are an existing member of staff at Justice Digital, Data and Science, the only London location being recruited to is 10 South Colonnade, E14 4PU. We are no longer recruiting to 102 Petty France, SW1H 9AJ.

Multiple vacancies are available across Justice Digital, Data & Science. Candidates who are not successful at the advertised grade may be offered an opportunity at SEO grade, subject to suitability and vacancy availability.

The Role

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We’re recruiting for Senior Business Analysts here at Justice Digital, Data and Science to be part of our warm and collaborative Probation Digital, Prisons Digital, Digital Infrastructure and Security Operations and the Legal Aid Agency Digital.

This role aligns against Senior Business Analyst from the Government Digital and Data Framework

At JDDS, we're looking for exceptional Senior Business Analysts to help solve some of the most complex and meaningful challenges in government.

Our Business Analysts work at the heart of multidisciplinary teams, bringing together user needs, business priorities, operational realities, policy objectives and technology opportunities to create services that improve outcomes for millions of people across the justice system.

You might be leading discovery work on a critical service transformation, shaping strategic investment decisions, helping teams navigate ambiguity, or coaching others to grow their business analysis capability. Every day is different, but the common thread is helping key stakeholders understand problems, identify opportunities, make evidence-based decisions and deliver meaningful change. This reflects the role's emphasis on leading complex projects, understanding strategic contexts and developing others.

We're looking for experienced Senior Business Analysts who can demonstrate proficiency across most skills described within the Government Digital and Data capability framework and can operate confidently across complex business, service and delivery environments.

You will have experience of developing best practice, mentoring others to develop knowledge, confidence and skills, as well as actively contributing to community of practice activities.

You’ll receive a range of excellent benefits when you join our department, including:

• A generous employer pension contribution of 28.97% through the Civil Service Pension Scheme.
• 25 days of annual leave, (increasing to 30 days once you have reached 5 years of service),plus 8 bank holidays and a privilege day for the King’s birthday.
• Flexible working arrangements including hybrid working, working part time or compressed hours. Designed to support a positive work–life balance.
• Employees are allocated 10% of their working time for personal and professional development.
• A £1k per person learning budget is in place to support all our people, with access to best-in-class conferences and seminars, accreditation with professional bodies, fully funded vocational programmes and e-learning platforms.
• Compassionate maternity, adoption, and shared parental leave policies, with up to 26 weeks leave at full pay, 13 weeks with partial pay, and 13 weeks further leave. And maternity support/paternity leave at full pay for 2 weeks, too!

You can find more details of the Benefits we offer here. To help picture your life at MoJ Justice Digital, Data and Science please take a look at our blog.

Key Responsibilities:

• Determine and agree the business analysis approach within multidisciplinary teams, adapting it to the team’s delivery methodology. Define and agree the scope of analysis activity, negotiate delivery priorities with colleagues and stakeholders, and communicate the value of iterative delivery and realising benefits early.

• Lead the approach to understanding complex problems and opportunities, their context and root causes. Set goals for analysis work that align with organisational strategy, lead the development and evaluation of multiple options, and advocate for evidence-based recommendations to gain stakeholder support.

• Champion the value of business analysis across services, the wider business area and the Business Analysis community, promoting consistent practice and shared learning.

• Own and build trusted relationships with stakeholders at all levels, influencing decisions, resolving issues and developing shared understanding.

• Work across organisational boundaries to align analysis and delivery activity with wider strategic objectives.

• Lead the elicitation, analysis, validation and prioritisation of complex business and user needs, negotiating and resolving conflicts. Define and assure appropriate artefacts, including problem statements, epics, features, user stories, acceptance criteria and non-functional requirements—and ensure needs remain traceable to strategic objectives and intended outcomes.

• Guide the selection and consistent use of appropriate business modelling techniques. Lead the creation of models and artefacts representing complex services, problem spaces, business domains, processes, information, system interactions and end-to-end journeys, using modelling