Common job roles
- IS Business Analyst
- IT Business Analyst
- Business Systems Analyst
- Requirements Analyst/Engineer
- Business Process Analyst
Roles you may progress into
- Senior Business Analyst
- Senior Technical Business Analyst
- Requirements Analyst Manager
- IT Business Processes Consultant
- Senior Cloud Operations Analyst
Programme delivery
Phase 1
Pre-Induction
Before your induction, a member of Estio’s Apprenticeship Onboarding team will contact you and your employer representative to discuss your job role and the apprenticeship standard. During this initial consultation, you will also begin your personalised Vocational Scorecard, which assesses your current skill levels against the apprenticeship standard.
The scorecard ensures we fully understand your starting point, so that we can work with your employer to develop an individual learning plan that is tailored to your needs, and gives you the best opportunity to achieve at the highest level.
Induction
Your induction will take place within the first two weeks of starting your employment and will be facilitated by the Onboarding team at your nearest Estio training centre. You will go through an overview of your chosen apprenticeship programme and be given details of what dedicated support is in place for you throughout your learning journey. In addition, you will receive login details for our Virtual Learning Environment, which you will use to complete both mandatory and optional training modules as part of your programme. Any outstanding diagnostic assessments and enrolment documents will be completed, and you can ask any last questions you may have before you formally begin your training.
Functional skills
We use BKSB tests to determine your current level of knowledge, to assess if you need further support with English and/or Maths.
If you do, our Functional Skills Training team will work with you to supply these skills. You will be supported through remote training sessions and workshops, which run for 3 days (for each).
Once you feel comfortable, you can sit the Level 2 Maths and/or English exams. These qualifications are equivalent to an A* – C (4-9) grade at GCSE, they are fully certified by City & Guilds and can be used to further enhance your CV and skillset.
Phase 2
Modules
What you will learn
- What is business analysis?
- Competencies of a business analyst
- Strategy analysis
- Business analysis process model
- Investigation techniques
- Stakeholder analysis and management
- Modelling business processes
- Defining the solution
- Making a business and financial case
- Requirements management
- Modelling requirements
- Delivering the requirements
- Delivering the business solution
- Mock exam (optional)
- External examination – BCS Foundation Certificate in Business Analysis (optional)
What you will learn
- Rationale for business analysis
- Understanding the strategic context
- Understanding the current situation
- Stakeholder analysis and management
- Analysing and modelling business activities
- Identifying potential solutions
- Building the business case
- Mock exam (optional)
- External examination – BCS Practitioner Certificate in Business Analysis Practice (optional)
What you will learn
- The role of business process modelling in describing how an organisation carries out its internal processes; the hierarchy of process models and techniques to describe them; and why this is a key skill of the business analyst in supporting change
- Modelling core business processes at an organisational level
- Modelling business processes at the process level, showing all the elements involved from triggering events to process endpoints.
- Documenting and analysing tasks
- The use of gap analysis in improving business processes
- Mock exam (optional)
- External examination – BCS Practitioner Certificate in Modelling Business Processes (optional)
What you will learn
- The Requirements Engineering framework: the issues and rationale in a business context; the application of the framework
- The hierarchy of requirements
- Roles and responsibilities of key stakeholders in the Requirements Engineering framework
- Requirements elicitation
- Requirements modelling
- Requirements documentation
- Requirements analysis
- Requirements validation
- Requirements management
- Mock exam (optional)
- External examination – BCS Practitioner Certificate in Requirements Engineering (optional)
What you will learn
- Agile way of thinking
- The principles of Agile.
- Differentiate between Agile frameworks.
- Scrum Master Role.
- Advantages of using scrum and why is this the most popular Agile methodology.
- Coaching and Team Mediating.
- Tracking and communicating progress
- Agile estimating, planning
- Monitoring and control
- Scaling Agile Projects
- Adopting Agile
- Mock exam (optional)
- External examination (optional)
The International Diploma is designed for business and IT professionals who want to demonstrate they have a detailed understanding of business analysis best practice. The optional BCS International Diploma in Business Analysis is made up of:
- 4 Module Passes completed as part of the apprenticeship.
- An oral examination over a 50- minute period with 2 examiners.
One-to-one support
You will have a Technical Specialist and a Progress Management Co-ordinator (PMC) assigned to support you throughout your apprenticeship.
Your PMC will contact you every 4 weeks to discuss your progress made to date, check you’re understanding your training modules, and support you with gathering evidence for your portfolio. Every 12 weeks a review meeting will take place between you, your employer representative and your PMC to assess how your new learning and skills development is being applied in your job role and its impact on your wider industry skills.
The Technical Specialist will work with you to develop your portfolio of evidence for End Point Assessment, and with your employer representative to agree the various workplace projects you will be required to undertake. They will also support your employer representative to complete your Employer Reference, a document which highlights key behaviours you have demonstrated for the final assessment as part of the End Point Assessment.
In every one-to-one session, we will agree actions and SMART targets for you to complete, so that you can progress confidently and with the right support.
Your portfolio
Throughout the apprenticeship, you will contribute evidence towards your online e-portfolio. We use e-portfolios as they are accessible from anywhere, and enable you to track your progress throughout your apprenticeship.
You’ll have access to your personal dashboard, which shows you a number of key milestones and deadlines coming up, such as the training you have completed, work that is due, and any gaps in your portfolio of evidence.
Your Technical Specialist and Progress Management Co-ordinator will be available to contact at any point throughout the apprenticeship and will advise you how to provide the best evidence.
Off-the-job training
Off-the-job (OTJ) training is comprised of, but not limited to activities such as: training with Estio, shadowing, journal entries and projects for e-portfolio. Completed within working hours as agreed with the employer but average at 6 hours per week (20% of your time on your apprenticeship).
You can track your OTJ progress on your e-portfolio.
Phase 3
Assessment Gateway, preparation & administration week
Dedicated one-to-one sessions to support the learner as they head towards assessment, putting them in the best possible position for achievement.
Phase 4
End Point Assessment
You will be assessed by an End Point Assessment Organisation chosen by your employer. EPA can take up to 3-4 months to complete. This involves a professional discussion underpinned by a portfolio and a project proposal with Q&A.
The Independent Assessor will feedback the results (Pass, Merit or Distinction) and the ESFA will provide your certificate.
Where can this apprenticeship take me?
The Level 4 Business Analyst apprenticeship is the perfect platform to gain the skills and experience to fulfill roles such as IS Business Analyst, IT Business Analyst, Business Systems Analyst, Requirements Analyst/Engineer, or Business Process Analyst.
After achieving a recommended minimum of 1 years experience within your role after completion (this is subject to your employer) you can begin a Level 6 Data Scientist apprenticeship.
Level 6 Data Scientist roles
Data Scientist, Informatics, Data Engineer
More information about this apprenticeship can be found on the
University study
Level 4 apprenticeships are the equivalent to a foundation degree. If you wish to study further whilst staying in work, some universities will offer the ability to learn remotely. If you wish to take a break from work, you may need to apply for a student loan whilst you study.