Job: Business Analyst (Band 7)

Location: Belfast

Salary:  £24.45

Hours of work: 37.5 hours per week

Job Purpose

To lead in the analysis and documentation of complex and multi stranded clinical and administrative workflows, information, data collection and/or reporting requirements.

To engage, negotiate, influence and gain consensus with a wide range of stakeholder to identify, document, articulate and prioritise Service requirements, new workflows, process models, reports, data sets and interfaces across complex clinical and non-clinical areas and interdependent programmes of work.

Take a lead role in testing the system to ensure it is safe, usable, secure and robust. Lead the Authority testing activity ensuring it is completed, tracked and is consistent with critical business deadlines. Review and track Vendor testing activity ensuring it is completed, tracked and is consistent with critical business deadlines.

Job Description:

• Provide specialist advice, create strategies, options and a recommendation on strategies for the analysis and documentation of highly complex clinical and administrative workflows, information, data collection and/or reporting requirements.
• Lead in the analysis and documentation of complex clinical and administrative workflows, information, data collection and/or reporting requirements.
• Lead the workstream on the identification of Service requirements, workflows and processes and present this complex information in an easily digestible format for prioritisation with large groups of clinical and non-clinical users.
• Influence, negotiate and resolve complex queries to achieve sign off of deliverables in a highly complex and interdependent Clinical Service and non-clinical governance structure.
• Plan, develop, manage, review and own the overall solution information repository which will cross all medical specialty areas and key technical areas including data migration, complex interfaces, system infrastructure and operational readiness.
• Design, implementation and review of Authority specific configuration items to meet Authority requirements for the new system.
• Take a lead role in testing the system to ensure it is safe, usable, secure and robust. 
• Lead the Authority testing activity ensuring it is completed, tracked and is consistent with critical business deadlines. Review and track Vendor testing activity ensuring it is completed, tracked and is consistent with critical business deadlines.
• Lead the analysis and review of test progress and variances/tolerances to deal with any risks or issues highlighted through testing by the Testing Teams escalating to the appropriate level when required.
• Provide specialist advice, guidance and training to less experienced colleagues.
• Create, develop and manage the analysis project plan in order to meet tight programme constraints and deadlines, sequencing activities logically.

Essential Criteria:

Degree/HND with 3 years relevant experience* in an IT environment.

OR

5 years relevant experience* in an IT environment.

*Relevant experience is an ICT role or equivalent role i.e. Service Delivery Manager in an organisation with 50+ users. Years of experience is based on full time work.

• Three years proven experience in an ICT Business Analyst or equivalent role
• An expert knowledge of the principles of ICT Business Analysis including the ability to analyse, write and review complex technical documentation e.g. system specifications, technical reports.
• An understanding of the main principles of project management.
• Have worked with a range of internal and external stakeholders to achieve successful outcomes.
• Excellent communication skills to meet the needs of the post in full.
• Definition of test conditions and analysis and reporting of test activities and results.
• A good working knowledge of Microsoft Office applications including Word, Visio, PowerPoint and Excel.

Ability to provide ICT technical advice/guidance at a level of detail that the recipient can understand. This ranges from an individual level to giving presentations to large groups of multidisciplinary stakeholders where intricate and/or technical information has to be explained in layman’s terms.

Knowledge of the structure and key business of Health & Social Care.

Have project management experience in a coordination, or leadership role.

An understanding of the role of technology in delivering Health and Social Care.

Scrum Master experience.