Senior Technical Analyst

Job description

Job responsibilities

In this role, you are accountable for

1. Fully engage and contribute to delivery of projects, change and continuous improvements within multidisciplinary scrum teams.2. Support the department by analysing propositions and assessing a range of factors including horizon scanning for emerging technologies, approaches, trends and strategies that would benefit the organisation, and inform how the strategic direction is set.3. Monitoring and develop a firm understanding of new and emerging tools, technologies and products to assess potential value and identifying opportunities to enhance capabilities, products and services within the organisation, including how they are implemented. 4. Translating designs both logical and physical to support user friendly processes and systems, and communication of this across business areas. 5. Conducting impact assessment of "as-is" and "to-be" processes for systems, tools and technologies, identifying relevant risks and issues, and providing mitigating actions.6. Undertake investigative technical systems analysis, facilitate scoping and priority setting of large or complex changes, providing options appraisals and recommendations, to feed into business cases, selecting the most appropriate means to communicate information.7. Delivering value for money by cultivating and encouraging an awareness of cost, using clear simple examples of benefits and how to measure outcomes8. Identify and understand relevant legal and commercial terms, concepts, policies and processes (including project approvals and assurance procedures) to deliver agreed outcomes9. Enabling the performance of others, by mentoring staff to encourage pro-active development of skills and capabilities. 10. Contribute to recruitment and selection in line with organisational processes and participate in the implementation and delivery of initiatives to secure suitable resources, increase skills levels and develop talent pools to meet the changing needs of the business landscape.11. Provide feedback to support and encourage individuals to develop thinking and independently work through issues, to reach solutions-based outcomes. 12. Keeping abreast of technological and maintain an excellent understanding of the use of technology in delivering business objectives. 13. Maintain own knowledge and expertise at the forefront of sector knowledge. Investigate research and development to support future business needs. Develop an understanding of emerging technologies and business opportunities.14. Contribute to and prepare proposals for change including producing necessary estimates, mandates and business cases within the DDaT directorate. 15. Monitoring budget spend and resource estimates against projects, and change initiatives.16. Identify opportunities, engaging and fostering relationships and partnership working within the organisation, and with third parties, to identify and deliver value to the organisation.17. Develop collaborative working relationships across a range of parties including product managers, architects and the wider delivery team to ensure products deliver value and the approach and feature backlog meet the specified user need.18. Develop a deep understanding of how the services, activities and strategies in the area work together to create value for the customer/end user. 19. Monitoring, reviewing accuracy of activities including estimates and actuals to provide more accurate information. 20. Managing own workload and completing assigned tasks, to a high quality and within agreed timelines. 21. Delivering continuous improvements to enhance own areas; co-ordinating and delivery of work across multiple strands such as continuous improvement, project related work, and escalating issues at appropriate times.22. Preparing plans to feed into the delivery and management of projects and programmes. 23. Execute approaches strategies, standards, practices and policies, ensuring and monitoring the timely delivery of business objectives within budget through the management of projects and programmes.24. Providing feedback on functional and non-functional requirements to ensure the overall needs of the business are met from an ICT perspective25. Participating in procurement processes for hardware and software. Reviewing functional requirements and providing non-functional requirements to ensure the overall needs of the business are met from an ICT perspective.

In addition to the above accountabilities, as post holder you are expected to1. Undertake additional duties and responsibilities in line with the purpose of your role and as agreed by your line manager.2. Demonstrate NHSBSA values and core capabilities in all aspects of your work.3. Encourage an environment where your own and colleagues safety and well-being is promoted.4. Contribute to a culture which values diversity and inclusion.5. Follow NHSBSA policies, procedures, and protocols as they apply to your role.

Working relationships

Responsible to: DDaT People Manager, DDaT Delivery Manager, Head of Profession Solution Design & Innovation

Key relationships and connections

• Architecture community
• UCD community
• Developer and Test community
• Live services community
• DDaT delivery community
• DDaT senior leadership
• Internal and External clients and customers

Person Specification

Personal Qualities, Knowledge and Skills

• Business change, rationalisation and transformation
• Evaluation of data from multiple sources to inform decision making
• Understand, communicate and promote to others the benefits of new trends, methods, tools and products that enhance capabilities of the organisation and the department
• Investigative analysis, scoping and estimating of resources including costs to deliver "to be" scenarios using a variety of modelling and analysis tools

• Various design approaches across a range of disciplines within the development lifecycle.
• A strong understanding of relevant frameworks and methods relevant to the role, such as Agile and Waterfall Project Management delivery methodologies.

Experience

• Ongoing Continuous Professional Development
• Engaging and building relationships with a range of stakeholders to support delivery of business outcomes
• Identifying functional, non- functional and technology requirements to ensure they are captured and implemented as part of a project.
• Translating business requirements to System/Functional and technology requirements
• Interpreting complex technical designs to communicate to business users.
• Mentoring and providing advice and guidance to less experienced colleagues
• Analysing digital / web services in a fast-paced environment
• Open source and cloud technologies and their sourcing
• Business and Technical impact assessment for "as-is" and "to be" processes, systems and structures
• Providing relevant information, options and recommendations to meet requirements, and rationale for these

• Working within a scrum teams, and experience creating user stories
• Interpreting strategy and translate emerging trends and technologies which might impact or benefit the organisation.

Qualifications

• Degree calibre with relevant in-depth knowledge of the subject matter
• Relevant experience of the subject matter

• Post Graduate qualification or equivalent in relevant discipline

Employer details

Employer name

NHS Business Services Authority

Address

Stella House

Goldcrest way, Newburn Riverside

Newcastle Upon Tyne

NE15 8NY

Employer's website

https://careers.nhsbsa.nhs.uk/