Business Analyst (1 Year Ftc)

Genomics England partners with the NHS to provide whole genome sequencing diagnostics. We also equip researchers to find the causes of disease and develop new treatments – with patients and participants at the heart of it all.

Our mission is to continue refining, scaling, and evolving our ability to enable others to deliver genomic healthcare and conduct genomic research.

We are accelerating our impact and working with patients, doctors, scientists, government and industry to improve genomic testing, and help researchers access the health data and technology they need to make new medical discoveries and create more effective, targeted medicines for everybody.

An exciting opportunity awaits you to join us here at Genomics England as a Business Analyst for a one year fixed-term contract!

As a Business Analyst, you will collaborate across multidisciplinary teams, utilizing agile and waterfall methodologies to ensure representation of customer requirements in leading end-user solutions. Working closely with the Service Owner and Delivery Managers, you will contribute to operational improvements and drive the necessary technology transformation toward our target future operating model.

Ideally, you will have experience of supporting transformation projects across cloud (AWS) or on premise infrastructure.

Skills and Experience for Success:

• Ability to identify business needs and translate them into requirements.
• Familiarity with user-centered design principles and information architecture, applying them in the product development lifecycle.
• Expertise in facilitating requirements workshops, ranging from one-to-one interviews to large groups.
• Capable of writing unambiguous, verifiable requirements and articulating options clearly to different audiences.
• Experience in facilitating digital transformation, preferably in an SME environment.
• Strong understanding of Cloud platforms, virtual workspaces (VDI), analytics, and data science tools and languages, capable of engaging cross-functional teams.
• Experience in agile teams, working iteratively on solution development, and collaborating with diverse stakeholders, including client solutions teams, architects, project managers, delivery teams, and senior management.

Desirable Skills and Experience:

• Knowledge of cloud or on-premise hosting, infrastructure as code, networking or security.

• Degree-level qualifications (or relevant experience) in one or more of business, information technology, or information systems.
• Any Business Analyst-specific certifications (e.g., CBAP, ISEB, BCS).

Salary from: £55,000

Being an integral part of such a meaningful mission is extremely rewarding in itself, but in order to support our people, we’re continually improving our benefits package. We pride ourselves on investing in our people and supporting them to achieve their career goals, as well as offering a benefits package including:

• 30 days’ holiday (plus bank holidays), with additional days for long service awards
• A generous pension scheme of up to 15% combined contribution
• Life Assurance (3 x salary)
• Individual learning budgets for every colleague, a Blinkist account and a wide variety of courses on our portal
• A wide variety of wellness benefits including Gympass, a Headspace account, free weekly Yoga classes
• Enhanced maternity & paternity benefits
• Blended working arrangements

Talk to our Talent Team and find out how a career with Genomics England will benefit you.

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Genomics England is actively committed to providing and supporting an inclusive environment that promotes equity, diversity and inclusion best practice both within our community and in any other area where we have influence. We are proud of our diverse community where everyone can come to work and feel welcomed and treated with respect regardless of any disability, ethnicity, gender, gender identity, religion, sexual orientation, or social background.

Genomics England’s policies of non-discrimination and equity and will be applied fairly to all people, regardless of age, disability, gender identity or reassignment, marital or civil partnership status, being pregnant or recently becoming a parent, race, religion or beliefs, sex or sexual orientation, length of service, whether full or part-time or employed under a permanent or a fixed-term contract or any other relevant factor.

Genomics England does not tolerate any form of discrimination, harassment, victimisation or bullying at work. Such behaviour is contrary to our virtues, undermines our mission and core values and diminishes the dignity, respect and integrity of all parties.

Genomics England operates a blended working model as we know our people appreciate the flexibility. We expect most people to come into the office 2 times each month as a minimum. However, this will vary according to role and will be agreed with your team leader. For some people this is 1 day a quarter, for others it is several days a week. There is no expectation that staff will return to the office full time unless they want to. The exception would be some of our roles that would require you to be on site full time e.g., lab teams, reception team.

Our teams and squads have, and will continue to, reflect on what works best for them to work together successfully and have the freedom to design working patterns to suit, beyond the minimum. Our office locations are Canary Wharf, Cambridge and Leeds.

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As part of our recruitment process, all successful candidates are subject to a Standard Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check. We therefore require applicants to disclose any previous offences at point of application, as some unspent convictions may mean we are unable to proceed with your application due to the nature of our work in healthcare.