Senior Business Analyst
Summary
The Government Property Agency is hiring a Senior Business Analyst to support data-driven transformation across its operations. The role involves capturing business requirements, translating them into data solutions, and collaborating with data engineers and architects to design systems that improve data quality, integration, and analytics for government property services.
- Job grade: Senior Executive Officer
- Contract type: Permanent
- Business area: GPA - Chief Operating Office
- Type of role: Information Technology
- Working pattern: Full-time
- Number of jobs available: 2
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About the job
Job summary
The Government Property Agency is the largest property holder in government, with more than £2.1 billion in property assets and over 55% of the government’s office estate.
We are transforming the way the Civil Service works by creating great places to work, leading the largest commercial office programme in the UK, working towards halving carbon emissions from government offices, and achieving greater value for taxpayers. And we are looking for innovative, solutions-focused people to join our team.
Representing the best covenant in the UK – His Majesty’s Government – we are leading transformational programmes such as the Government Hubs Programme, Whitehall Campus Programme and Net Zero Programme, as well as delivering modern, cost-effective real estate service solutions.
Innovation and progress are at the heart of our behaviours. We foster a culture of lifelong learning, where curiosity and self-improvement are encouraged. And we’re dedicated to becoming a leading, inclusive employer both in the external market and throughout the Civil Service. Our strong emphasis on Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion (EDI) is not just about driving inclusion across our organisation, it is also about ensuring our services meet the needs of government departments and the civil servants who use our spaces.
Join our dynamic and diverse team that leads with purpose, improving sustainability, nurturing social value, driving inclusivity and flexibility, and kickstarting economic growth. We are driven by purpose, and you can be part of it too: where you make a meaningful impact; where you influence; where your voice really matters; where you help to shape our future direction.
The GPA is committed to representing the communities we serve by making Diversity, Equality and Inclusion part of everything we do.
To ensure that we are always recruiting and retaining a diverse mix of talent, we are particularly inviting applications from candidates who are disabled, ethnically or gender diverse, and people who identify as being part of the LGBTQ+ community.
Job description
Effective use of data underpins most, if not all, of the GPA’s business plan objectives. As such Business Analysts fulfil a key part of the GPA’s updated Information & Data strategy. This role will work across all Directorates to translate information requirements to data solutions; e.g. a new dashboard, new integration or data quality improvement action.
The role helps data leads, data owners and data stewards across the GPA to develop designs for systems and solutions to achieve business outcomes. The role will also support better understanding & management of data between GPA, Clients and 3rd parties.
The senior business analyst will be responsible for capturing and understanding business requirements in a form that can be used to specify and solution design. This includes:
- Liaising with business users to capture business requirements and translate these into robust business requirement documents that can be used as the basis for solution design
- Liaising with data engineers and data analysts to create High Level and Low Level Design Documents
- Presenting BRD’s to Business Design Authorities and collating feedback
- Liaising with Delivery Managers for the agile delivery of analytics solutions, including participation in agile delivery ceremonies as required
Person specification
As a data driven organisation, a business analyst is essential to business requirements are transferred to effective digital and data solutions. The business analyst ensures that the GPA has fully documented requirements and data specifications for the use and exchange of data across and to/from the GPA estate.
To achieve this, the business analysts needs to be able to:
- Turn business needs into clear and well understood requirements, which can be acted upon by architects and engineers
- Work with SMEs such as Data Engineers, Enterprise Architects and Solution Architects to arrive at digital and data solutions
- Adopt a methodical and systematic approach to document control
- Understand interactions between business analysts and data architects in supporting system design and development
Essential criteria:
- Development and management of user requirements including user stories, use cases and user interactions
- Use and application of formal data modelling patterns such as UML
- Working in an Agile development environment
- Understand interactions between data engineers, analysts and data architects in supporting system design and development
- Graduate or higher level qualification
Desirable criteria
- Understanding of data privacy and data security concepts and how they are factored into data architectural practices
- Work prioritisation and scheduling to time and budget
- Familiarity with using CASE tools such as SparxEA, Erwin or similar
- Using Agile development environments such as JIRA
- Training on system design practices such as TOGAF and RM-ODP
- Gold Standard: IT & Data Management – CITP / CsyP
Qualifications
Behaviours
We'll assess you against these behaviours during the selection process:
- Working Together
- Managing a Quality Service
- Making Effective Decisions
- Delivering at Pace
Technical skills
We'll assess you against these technical skills during the selection process:
- Customer Perpective
- Commercial Accumen
- Property Market Knowledge
- Innovation
Benefits
- Learning and development tailored to your role
- An environment with flexible working options
- A culture encouraging inclusion and diversity
- A Civil Service pension with an employer contribution of 28.97%
Things you need to know
Artificial intelligence
Selection process details
We encourage applications from people from all backgrounds and aim to have a workforce that represents the communities and wider society that we serve. We pride ourselves on being an employer of choice. We champion diversity, inclusion and well-being and aim to create a sense of belonging in a workplace where everyone feels valued. The Civil Service is committed to attract, retain and invest in talent wherever it is found. To learn more please see the Civil Service People Plan and the Civil Service D&I Strategy.
The Civil Service Code (opens in a new window) sets out the standards of behaviour expected of civil servants.
We recruit by merit on the basis of fair and open competition, as outlined in the Civil Service Commission's recruitment principles (opens in a new window).
The Civil Service embraces diversity and promotes equal opportunities. As such, we run a Disability Confident Scheme (DCS) for candidates with disabilities who meet the minimum selection criteria.
The Civil Service also offers a Redeployment Interview Scheme (RIS) to civil servants who are at risk of redundancy, and who meet the minimum requirements for the advertised vacancy.
This vacancy is part of the Great Place to Work for Veterans (opens in a new window) initiative.
The Civil Service welcomes applications from people who have recently left prison or have an unspent conviction. Read more about prison leaver recruitment (opens in new window).
Please note - At this time GPA are unable to offer any Visa Sponsorship to candidates as we do not currently hold a visa sponsorship licence. Please do not apply for permanent roles with GPA if you will require your employer to take on the sponsorship of your current or any future visas.
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 for more information on appropriate and inappropriate use.
Sift
The sift is due to take place week commencing 23rd November 2026
As part of the application process, you will be asked to include a CV and a 750 Word personal statement. The personal statement should then align with the person specification.
Interview
GPA policy is for interviews to be held face to face, with virtual interviews only by absolute exception. The date and location will be confirmed if you are invited to interview. If you feel this will be a problem for you, please contact [email protected] to discuss prior to submitting your application. This will be a 2 stage interview process.
At interview, applicants will be scored against 4 behaviours - Working Together, Managing a Quality Service, Making Effective Decisions and Delivering at Pace.
Interview questions will be a blend of Behaviour, Experience, Strength and Technical (core skill) questions.
Further Information
A reserve list may be held for a period of 6 months from which further appointments can be made.
Any move to GPA from another employer will mean you can no longer access childcare vouchers. This includes moves between government departments. You may however be eligible for other government schemes, including Tax Free Childcare; for further information visit the Childcare Choices website.
Reasonable Adjustment
If a person with disabilities is put at a substantial disadvantage compared to a non-disabled person, we have a duty to make reasonable changes to our processes.
If you need a change to be made so that you can make your application, you should:
Contact Government Recruitment Service via [email protected] as soon as possible before the closing date to discuss your needs.
Complete the ‘Assistance required’ section in the ‘Additional requirements’ page of your application form to tell us what changes or help you might need further on in the recruitment process. For instance, you may need wheelchair access at an interview, or if you’re deaf, a Language Service Professional.
If successful and transferring from another Government Department a criminal record check may be carried out.
In order to process applications without delay, we will be sending a Criminal Record Check to Disclosure and Barring Service on your behalf.
However, we recognise in exceptional circumstances some candidates will want to send their completed forms direct. If you will be doing this, please advise Government Recruitment Service of your intention by emailing [email protected] stating the job reference number in the subject heading.
New entrants are expected to join on the minimum of the pay band.
Applicants who are successful at interview will be, as part of pre-employment screening, subject to a check on the Internal Fraud Database (IFD). This check will provide information about employees who have been dismissed for fraud or dishonesty offences. This check also applies to employees who resign or otherwise leave before being dismissed for fraud or dishonesty had their employment continued. Any applicant’s details held on the IFD will be refused employment.
A candidate is not eligible to apply for a role within the Civil Service if the application is made within a 5 year period following a dismissal for carrying out internal fraud against government.
If you are experiencing accessibility problems with any attachments on this advert, please contact the email address in the 'Contact point for applicants' section.
Feedback will only be provided if you attend an interview or assessment.
Security
Nationality requirements
This job is broadly open to the following groups:
- UK nationals
- nationals of the Republic of Ireland
- nationals of Commonwealth countries who have the right to work in the UK
- nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities with settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS) (opens in a new window)
- nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities who have made a valid application for settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS)
- individuals with limited leave to remain or indefinite leave to remain who were eligible to apply for EUSS on or before 31 December 2020
- Turkish nationals, and certain family members of Turkish nationals, who have accrued the right to work in the Civil Service
Working for the Civil Service
We recruit by merit on the basis of fair and open competition, as outlined in the Civil Service Commission's recruitment principles (opens in a new window).
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Contact point for applicants
Further information
If you are not satisfied with the response you receive from the Department, you can contact the Civil Service Commission:
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