5174 - Senior Data and Business Analyst - Workforce Data

We're recruiting for a Senior Data and Business Analyst here at Justice Digital, to be part of our warm and collaborative Workforce Data Service team. This role aligns against Senior Data Analyst from the Government Digital and Data Framework. This is an exciting opportunity to use both your data analysis and business analysis expertise to support maintaining and continuously improving one view of truth for capability data and providing actionable insights to support data-led decision-making across Justice Digital. You will report to the Head of People Operations and Workforce Data Service team, which comprises two sub-teams:

• The Workforce Data Service (WFDS) team, which is responsible for providing a Service through which workforce and capability data is maintained and reported on.
• The People Operations team, which is newly-formed and is responsible for operational people-related activities such as the Performance Management Review process, exit interviews and Location Strategy related activities.
A collaborative, flexible and can-do team player is essential in this role, along with somebody who feels comfortable working in a fast paced environment with competing priorities. You will be rewarded with a team that will welcome your experience and ideas and support you to develop. With your genuine passion for data analysis, you will be the principal data analysis contacts within the team, responding to workforce data commissions, and providing dashboards, reports and analysis to transform data into actionable insight and solutions. You will define and implement quality control and assurance, identify opportunities for data innovation, and will lead on its implementation and adoption. You will be responsible for maintaining and continuously improving our one view of truth for workforce data, analysing and presenting data to inform strategic workforce planning to support building digital and technology capability. You will join data from multiple sources using the appropriate scripting and tools to extract, transform and load data into our one view of truth. Our one view of truth is currently held within Orgvue, a workforce planning and organisation design platform, whose native scripting language 'Gizmo' is based on JavaScript. This is a key part of the role, with ongoing training and support to enable you and the team to continuously improve and develop the platform to meet existing and emerging user needs. You will ensure data consistency and integrity through rigorous data validation and cleansing processes, automating data management activities where possible, and will perform detailed data analysis to identify trends, anomalies and data quality issues. You will be a key participant and contributor to Agile ceremonies, including daily standups, weekly sprint planning, monthly retrospectives and workshops. You will engage with users and stakeholders regularly, capturing their needs, understanding and mapping business processes, and making recommendations and changes to improve them where possible. A key stakeholder group is our Data Guardian community which is responsible for maintaining a large proportion of our workforce data. You will ensure they remain supported and engaged through communication channels and regular meetings, informing them of changes to data products, processes, and new releases, and basing continual improvement on user feedback. To help picture your life at MoJ Justice Digital please take a look at our blog and our Digital and Technology strategy 2025