Digital Business Analyst
- 21 Jan 2022
- Sydney
- Contract
- NSW Government Contract Engagement
- Human Centred Design Project
- Excellent Daily Rates On Offer
Our Client, a Large Government department is seeking to appoint a Digital Business Analyst to join the existing team on an initial 6 month contract engagement with a view to extend based on performance and business requirements.
The role of the Business Analyst is critical to build an effective relationship with Users and Stakeholders through the delivery of quality business analysis outcomes to Digital Products, Projects and Initiatives. This will be achieved based on sound analytics, observations and insights, through research with actual end users and by understanding the people who actually engage with digital solutions, their needs, preferences and pain points.
APPLICATIONS CLOSE COB 25TH JANUARY.
Accountabilities and Deliverables:
Stakeholder and User engagement
The role of the Business Analyst is critical to build an effective relationship with Users and Stakeholders through the delivery of quality business analysis outcomes to Digital Products, Projects and Initiatives. This will be achieved based on sound analytics, observations and insights, through research with actual end users and by understanding the people who actually engage with digital solutions, their needs, preferences and pain points.
APPLICATIONS CLOSE COB 25TH JANUARY.
Accountabilities and Deliverables:
Stakeholder and User engagement
- Engage effectively with business and digital stakeholders and with consumers (users) of the proposed solution
- Identify and analyse outcomes desired including needs, preferences and pain points and communicate the impact of constraints (including solution, schedule and budget).
- Uncover opportunities to leverage new technology capabilities
- Confirm that the solution(s) delivered address the needs identified and deliver the business outcomes in the Business Case.
- Ensure testable outcomes are defined
- Align delivery to business capability and technology roadmaps.
- Represent the needs and desires of the people who will use Digital solutions.
- Understand the people who actually engage with digital solutions, their needs, preferences and pain points
- Work as part of Project teams under the direction of Project Managers
- Collaborate with Solution Architects working within shared Domain(s) on Product Roadmaps
- Collaborate with UX Specialists to ensure that Experience is focused on Humans
- Contribute to an effective BA team and BA capability & practice by:
- Participating in BA improvement initiatives and active involvement in BA team meeting
- Providing quality assurance services by participating in reviews/audits across internal BA work
- Australian Citizenship or Permanent residency essential
- Minimum of 3 years’ experience in formal Business Analysis methods on projects and initiatives varying in size, complexity, ambiguity and abstraction.
- Labware Update experience, ideally 12 months sought by the Hiring Manager
- Knowledge of Human Centred Design (HCD) and/or Design Thinking is highly desirable
- Apply industry standard business analysis frameworks, methods, tools and techniques including;
- Business Analysis Body of Knowledge (BABoK)
- Process modelling to BPMN standard
- Business Analysis within Waterfall / Agile and Scrum methodologies
- Stakeholder workshops/interviews
- Service Blueprints
- Conceptual data modelling
- Learn a new domain very quickly and teach aspects of the domain problem and solution to business and technical stakeholders
- Write effective business scenarios, requirements documentation and conceptual & functional design documentation
- Analyse and distil problems, collaborate with others to identify creative solutions and promote simplified alternatives
- Estimate, negotiate, facilitate and interview stakeholders
- Plan and organise to ensure the timely completion of tasks and manage conflicting priorities
- Apply elicitation skills to identify and understand stakeholders needs and concerns, and understand the environment in which they work
- Apply requirements analysis and communication skills to:
- Prioritise and elaborate requirements, to identify and recommend improvements and to verify and validate requirements
- Manage conflicts, manage scope, manage requirements communications and to maintain knowledge for future use
- Apply solution assessment and validation skills to ensure the solution meets the business need and to communicate gaps to the business stakeholders
- Commercial delivery methods including waterfall, agile (Scrum) & iterative approaches