Job Title: Systems Analyst
Location: Walsall, England
Salary: £32,909 – £37,261 per annum
Job Type: Permanent/Full-time
Closing Date: 23 July 2023
The Role:
What’s in it for you?
We’re flexible!
We offer a modern, flexible and supportive working environment that accommodates your preferences to hybrid work, so, you can work from home or from the office (or a bit of both!); but we may ask that you attend some face-to-face sessions periodically.
We love to upskill our staff!
We actively promote learning and development opportunities to all our employees to help them progress and gain new skills (such as via our Endless Possibilities programme) and in the IT department, we support staff to pursue certifications by providing learning content and exam vouchers to progress through various career pathways.
We love awards!
Over the last 12 months we have been nominated for many prestigious awards. For example, PICCASO Privacy Awards, Public, Finance Awards, Ladder for the Black Country Apprenticeship Awards, Multicultural Apprenticeship Awards and the LGC Digital Impact Awards (to name a few); and we’re over the moon to have won in our respective categories.
We promote a healthy work/life balance:
We have generous annual leave (starting at 27 days for this role) that rises as your time with Walsall Council increases and is also supplemented by 9 concessionary days throughout the year and a truly adaptable flexible working policy.
Pensions
We support staff in paying into a great pension scheme with West Midlands Pension Fund. Walsall Council will contribute a significant proportion of employer contributions towards your pension – find out more on our website.
What we need from you:
We are looking for hands-on, motivated and innovative Systems Analyst with a strong attention for detail and a passion for technology to understand and deliver on business needs. The successful candidate will work closely with colleagues from across the business to cultivate Walsall Council’s enterprise architecture in line with the organisation’s Corporate Plan and Digital Strategy.
What we’ll need you to do:
- Define standards and processes within the Enterprise Architecture team
- Elicit, document, analyse, validate and manage the business requirements of internal customers
- Plan, prepare, execute and support user acceptance testing
- Manage stakeholders and work collaboratively with cross functional teams to deliver high quality solutions and supporting materials
- Conduct workshops, interviews, process mapping sessions, etc
- Champion technical innovation, evolution and growth
- Inspire the development of the organisation’s architecture
- Demonstrate a passion for continued personal/professional development
Walsall Council is committed to attracting, developing and retaining talent and can offer you an opportunity to make a difference and better the lives of the people of this exciting borough. We have a genuine commitment to equality of opportunity and welcome all applicants to help us employ a representative workforce that reflects the community we serve. If you’re looking for a new challenge and would like to collaboratively drive the design, development and delivery of our ambitious digital transformation, we’d love to hear from you!
This post is covered by the Government’s Code of Practice on the English Language Fluency Duty for public sector workers. The postholder will be required to communicate verbally with customers and provide advice and/or information in accurate spoken English.
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