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| Posted: | 07/10/26 | |
| Recruiter: | Department for Work and Pensions | |
| Reference: | 3191294856 | |
| Type: | Permanent | |
| Disciplines: | Analyst | |
| Salary: | Competitive | |
| Location: | Birmingham | |
| Description: | Job summary We have a number of exciting Business Analyst opportunities available across DWP Digital, including Debt, Health & Disability Services, Working Age Services and Hybrid Cloud. Five vacancies are within the Working Age Services team and are available in Birmingham, Leeds, Manchester and Newcastle. The remaining opportunities are available in Birmingham, Blackpool, Leeds, Manchester, Newcastle and Sheffield. As a Business Analyst, you will play a vital role in shaping and delivering digital transformation that supports millions of users across the UK. Working within multidisciplinary teams, you will help bridge the gap between business needs and technical solutions, ensuring that products and services deliver meaningful outcomes and value. This is an opportunity to contribute across the product delivery lifecycle, working in Agile environments to support the design and delivery of services that meet user and business needs. You'll collaborate with a wide range of stakeholders, applying business analysis techniques to help define solutions, improve processes and support effective decision making. Joining DWP Digital means becoming part of a thriving Business Analysis profession where learning and development are actively supported. You'll have access to experienced Senior and Lead Business Analysts, an established community of practice, and opportunities to broaden your skills, expand your experience and progress your career. As you develop, you'll also have opportunities to support and mentor colleagues at earlier stages of their Business Analysis journey. Please note: As part of the role, you may be required to travel regularly to the other digital hubs. The frequency of this will be discussed further should you be successful. Job description
When giving details in your employment history and personal statement you should highlight your experience in line withessential criteriabelow:
Technical skills We'll assess you against these technical skills during the selection process:
Alongside your salary of 44,447, Department for Work and Pensions contributes 12,876 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides (opens in a new window). We also have a broad benefits package built around your work-life balance which includes:
This role may be suitable for hybrid working, which is where an employee works part of the week in their DWP office and part of the week from home. This is a voluntary, non-contractual arrangement and your office will be your contractual place of work. If a hybrid working arrangement is suitable for the role and for you, you will normally be required to spend a minimum of 60% of your contracted working hours from your DWP office. If you have a disability, caring responsibilities, or other circumstances that may affect your ability to meet the minimum office attendance requirement, please discuss this with us using the contact details in this advert. Salary Information Pay for this role is from 44,447 to 46,547. Our offer to successful candidates will be based on an assessment of your skills and experience as demonstrated at interview. Existing Civil Servants who secure a new role on lateral transfer will maintain their current substantive salary. Existing Civil Servants who gain promotion will move to the bottom of the grade pay scale or receive a 10% increase applied to their current substantive salary, whichever is greater. Any temporary allowances that you are currently in receipt of will not form part of the calculation to determine your pay. Any allowances that are in payment will cease when you move into your new role. Things you need to know Artificial intelligence Artificial intelligence can be a useful tool to support your application, however, all examples and statements provided must be truthful, factually accurate and taken directly from your own experience. Where plagiarism has been identified (presenting the ideas and experiences of others, or generated by artificial intelligence, as your own) applications may be withdrawn and internal candidates may be subject to disciplinary action. Please see our candidate guidance (opens in a new window) for more information on appropriate and inappropriate use. Selection process details This vacancy is using Success Profiles (opens in a new window) , and will assess your Ability, Experience and Technical skills. Stage 1: Application Your application will consist of four parts: 1. A Personal Details application form. 2. Civil Service Verbal Test. After submission of the first stage of your application, you will be invited to complete the civil service verbal test. If you successfully pass the test, you will be invited to complete the final stages of the application. Please complete the online test as soon as possible (within 24-48 hours is recommended). The closing date for a fully completed application is 19/10/2026 at 23:55hrs. Please allow sufficient time to complete the online test and your full written application before the deadline. If you fail to complete the online test and full written application before the deadline your application will be withdrawn. Guidance for the test will be available when you are invited to take the test. The test is administered online and accessed via the CS Jobs website. You will be directed to the Talogy - True Talent Scheduled Maintenance Window Webpage for online tests during an outage. Our online test supplier will be performing scheduled maintenance between 4 p.m. and 7 p.m. on 11th October 2026 . You will be unable to access tests during this period. If you are in the middle of a test when the maintenance begins, your progress will be paused. You will be able to resume your test from where you left off via your application centre once the downtime has ended. Please note that you will not be able to launch any new tests while the system is offline. Following successful completion of thetest, you will then be asked to complete: 3. Employment history - this should contain your work experience and any skills, qualifications and accomplishments relevant to the jobs you have completed based on the essential criteria. . click apply for full job details | |