Business Analyst (SC Cleared) - #2126339

Business Analyst (SC Cleared)

Home Office | MAPPS Programme
Remote £528 per day (Inside IR35)
SC Clearance & NPPV3 Required

Your New Role

Hays are recruiting for an experienced Business Analyst to join the high-profile MAPPS (Multi-Agency Public Protection System) programme within the Home Office.

MAPPS is a major digital transformation initiative, modernising a legacy offender management application into a scalable, cloud-based platform that will support agencies across the UK and place public protection at the heart of service delivery.

Working within a multidisciplinary Agile delivery team, you will collaborate with Product Managers, User-Centred Design specialists, Architects and technical teams to ensure business and user needs are translated into high-quality requirements and deliverables.

Key Responsibilities

• Facilitate workshops and support the initial assessment of business themes and requirements.
• Analyse current and future business processes, creating and maintaining process maps.
• Elicit, document and manage business requirements.
• Write clear user stories with robust acceptance criteria.
• Collaborate with stakeholders across multiple government departments and agencies.
• Support Agile delivery teams throughout the development life cycle.
• Identify risks, dependencies and issues, ensuring appropriate mitigation and escalation.
• Maintain high-quality BA documentation and artefacts.
• Support demonstrations, testing activities and ongoing product development.

Essential Skills & Experience

• Proven experience working as a Business Analyst.
• Previous experience delivering projects within government or public sector environments.
• Strong Agile delivery experience.
• Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving capabilities.
• Experience producing process maps, requirements documentation and user stories.
• Ability to work effectively within multidisciplinary Agile teams.
• Eligible for or currently holding SC Clearance and able to obtain NPPV3 Clearance.

Desirable Experience

• Knowledge of the UK Criminal Justice System.
• Understanding of MAPPA (Multi-Agency Public Protection Arrangements).
• Experience working with AWS cloud technologies.
• Relevant public sector or cloud certifications.
• Degree-level qualification in a related discipline.

What You'll Get in Return

• Opportunity to work on a nationally significant public sector transformation programme.
• Long-term engagement on a high-profile Home Office project.
• Fully remote working.
• Collaborative Agile delivery environment.
• Competitive daily rate of up to £528 per day Inside IR35.

What You Need to Do Now

If you're interested in this role, click 'Apply Now' to submit your application or contact the Hays Technology team for a confidential discussion.Please note: This role requires SC Clearance and NPPV3 vetting. Additional onboarding and vetting checks may extend standard onboarding timescales.

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