JOB DETAILS

About the Bureau
The Bureau of Meteorology is an agency in the Environment portfolio of the Australian Government. As Australia’s national weather, climate and water agency, the Bureau’s expertise and services assist Australians in preparing for and responding to the harsh realities of their natural environment. Through regular forecasts, warnings, monitoring and advice spanning the Australian region and Antarctic Territory, the Bureau provides one of the most fundamental and widely used public services.

About the ROBUST program
The ROBUST program is a comprehensive rebuild of the Bureau's ICT systems and related business processes and applications, focussed on addressing security and resilience risks. It aims to secure and strengthen all elements of the Bureau's operating environment to provide continuous availability of critical services, mitigating the risks arising from the fragility of the existing ICT environment.

Requirement Summary - Short Summary
Experienced Business Analysts are required to join the Infrastructure stream in the ROBUST program, to support requirements management and process design for allocated projects within the delivery stream. These roles are expected to be focused on supporting Cloud, Networks and System Management projects within the stream
The overall scope of the Infrastructure delivery stream is to deliver a new secure, resilient infrastructure platform for the Bureau. The technical scope encompasses LAN, WAN, cloud, compute, storage and backup components at numerous sites across Australia, as well as uplifting Enterprise Security, Health Monitoring and Scheduling.
The successful candidate will have experience in eliciting information across a diverse group of both technical and non-technical stakeholders, have an ability to grasp new concepts quickly, be able to distil complex information and document requirements, both functional and non-functional to support procurement and upgrade activities.  They will have had experience documenting operational processes for teams supporting the running of Infrastructure platforms, monitoring and scheduling tools.
Further the successful candidate will have prior project experience in defining requirements for infrastructure projects and providing BA support through the project lifecycle, on projects scoped to deliver:

• Cloud services (with a focus on IasS, PaaS)
• WAN/LAN redesign
• Introducing Enterprise Monitoring
• Introducing Enterprise Scheduling

Responsibilities - Full Requirements

• Providing Business Analysis services to the delivery stream projects, including elicitation and management of requirements, to support project delivery.
• Ensuring BA deliverables align to the standards and expectations set by the BA Capability team.
• Completing process analysis and design activities aligned with process standards as requested.
• Requirements owner for agreed projects within a delivery stream, representing the requirement intent and ensuring Vendor deliverables trace and align to business requirements.
• Completing ad-hoc analysis and providing recommendations as requested.
• Building working relationships within the Robust Program to enable successful delivery.
• Contributing to the alignment of the Infrastructure stream with other delivery streams and ensuring consistency with BA outcomes.
• Proactively identify dependencies, risks and issues for the Project, and manage dependencies, risks or issues allocated to them aligned to the agreed framework.
• Working collaboratively with a diverse set of stakeholders internal to and potentially external to the Bureau.
• Proactively identify insights that help stakeholders achieve their objectives and improve products and services.
• Supporting continuous improvement and working with the BA Capability team to implement improvement initiatives.
• Comply with all Bureau work, health and safety policies and procedures, and take reasonable care for your own health and safety and that of employees, contractors and visitors who may be affected by your conduct.
• Commitment to APS Values, Employment Principles, Code of Conduct and the Bureau's Social Justice Strategy.

 
Mandatory

• Exposure to large waterfall based transformation programs.
• Experienced business analysis, including elicitation for functional and non-functional requirements, requirements management and traceability.
• Technical knowledge and ability to analyse needs and articulate requirements for the underpinning capabilities required to implement Cloud Services (IaaS/PaaS), WANs, LANs, Enterprise Monitoring, Enterprise Scheduling
• Experience on projects delivering creating new WANs or redesigning existing WANs.
• Experience supporting all phases of the delivery lifecycle from Initiation, Procurement and Tender stages through to Testing, Deployment and Transition to operations.
• Knowledge and experience of applying security and resilience principles and frameworks.
• Experience documenting operational processes for teams supporting the running of Infrastructure platforms, monitoring and scheduling tools in an ITIL environment.
• Experiencing working with a diverse stakeholder group including exec level stakeholders, ICT operations and technical teams, as well as customer facing and business operations teams.
• Strong communication skills, and an ability to flex style and approach.
• Pragmatic, flexible, self-aware, resilient, proactive and results driven.
• Experience managing requirements via Microfocus ALM/Quality Centre tools.
• 7 years' experience as a Business Analyst.

Desirable

• Knowledge of BABOK and BPMN.
• Knowledge of key security standards & guidelines e.g. ISM, PSPF, NIST Cybersecurity Framework, ISO.

BA experience on projects delivering Privileged Access management, Vulnerability Management, Configuration Management, uplift to Domain Name Services.