Lead business analyst
Band 8a · Business analyst · 554 job evaluation points
UK GDaD PCF level: Lead business analyst
A lead business analyst has a good understanding of the enterprise arena and works in highly complex problem spaces, typically spanning multiple products or services.
At this role level, you will:
- be a leader in the business analysis community (across government and externally)
- have functional management or people management accountabilities, or a combination of both
- actively share knowledge and be seen as a go-to person in the field
- mentor others
- own the main stakeholder relationships
Responsibilities
- Lead analysis for highly complex problems that span several products, services, or organisations in a care system.
- Shape the business case and benefits realisation plan for major investments.
- Set business analysis standards, such as requirements traceability for safety-related and regulated software.
- Work with clinical leads, architects, and product managers to align analysis with organisational strategy.
- Line manage business analysts and lead their professional development.
Skills
| Skill | Expected level | What this level means |
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| Adapting to delivery methodologies | Practitioner (3) | You can:
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| Business and user acceptance testing | Practitioner (3) | You can:
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| Business modelling | Expert (4) | You can:
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| Business process improvement | Expert (4) | You can:
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| Change, benefits and adoption analysis | Expert (4) | You can:
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| Context, problem and option analysis | Expert (4) | You can:
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| Defining and managing business needs, user needs and requirements | Expert (4) | You can:
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| Digital and data systems analysis | Expert (4) | You can:
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| Stakeholder relationship management | Expert (4) | You can:
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| User experience insight analysis | Practitioner (3) | You can:
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| Understanding health and care services | Practitioner (3) | You can:
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| Clinical risk management | Practitioner (3) | You can:
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| Information governance and data protection | Practitioner (3) | You can:
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| Health data interoperability | Practitioner (3) | You can:
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| Clinical terminology and classification | Working (2) | You can:
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| People management | Practitioner (3) | You can:
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Typical qualifications and experience
- Extensive experience of leading business analysis across complex, multi-team change.
Band 8a outline
- Knowledge
- Expert knowledge of a discipline and its management.
- Autonomy
- Interprets organisational policy for a service; sets the team's direction.
- Scope
- A service area or a discipline across the organisation.
- Leadership
- Manages a team, or leads a discipline without line management.
- Accountability
- A service area, its staff, and its budget.
Job evaluation (illustrative)
| Factor | Level | Level summary | Points |
|---|---|---|---|
| Communication and relationship skills | 5 | Gives highly complex or contentious information needing developed persuasion and negotiation, presents to large groups, or communicates where there are significant barriers to acceptance. | 45 |
| Knowledge, training, and experience | 7 | Highly developed specialist knowledge across the range of the specialism (master's level or equivalent). | 196 |
| Analytical and judgemental skills | 5 | Judgements on highly complex facts or situations needing analysis, interpretation, and comparison of options. | 60 |
| Planning and organisational skills | 4 | Plans a broad range of complex activities or strategies, adjusting them as needed. | 42 |
| Physical skills | 2 | Skills gained through practice, such as standard keyboard use or driving. | 15 |
| Responsibility for patient and client care | 1 | Helps patients, clients, or relatives during incidental contact. | 4 |
| Responsibility for policy and service development | 4 | Implements policy and develops policy or services for a service or several areas. | 32 |
| Responsibility for financial and physical resources | 3 | Authorises payments, buys some assets or supplies, monitors or holds a delegated budget, or maintains assets. | 21 |
| Responsibility for people | 3 | Manages a group of staff day to day, teaches core or specialist training, or gives core HR advice. | 21 |
| Responsibility for information resources | 5 | Designs and develops major information systems, or runs information systems for several services as the main duty. | 34 |
| Responsibility for research and development | 2 | Regularly does research, development, trials, or equipment and system testing as part of the job. | 12 |
| Freedom to act | 5 | Works within general policies, and in most cases decides how to interpret them. | 45 |
| Physical effort | 1 | Sitting, standing, and walking, with little physical effort. | 3 |
| Mental effort | 3 | Frequent concentration on unpredictable work, or occasional prolonged concentration. | 12 |
| Emotional effort | 1 | Rare exposure, or occasional indirect exposure, to distressing circumstances. | 5 |
| Working conditions | 2 | Occasional unpleasant conditions, frequent travel or outdoor work, or near-continuous screen use on most days. | 7 |
| Total (Band 8a: 540 to 584) | 554 | ||
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