Assistant Director - Business Analyst

Department of Employment and Workplace Relations (DEWR); Sydney; On-site; AUD 110,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

Department of Employment and Workplace Relations (DEWR) in Sydney is seeking an Assistant Director - Business Analyst to drive current-to-future state analyses for large digital projects. You will write functional requirements, acceptance criteria, and ensure high-quality artefacts while collaborating with Product Owners, users, architects, and delivery teams.

You will participate in agile ceremonies, map business processes, and lead and mentor junior analysts, setting standards for business

Responsibilities

• Plan, facilitate and lead workshops with business stakeholders, subject matter experts, application owners and technical teams.
• Participate in agile ceremonies.
• Participate in design, planning, and estimation sessions.
• Work closely with system users to map business processes for the purpose of understanding business domain problems.
• Analyse and communicate solution options.
• Write functional requirements along with acceptance criteria.
• Work with pre-delivery teams to identify viable solutions.
• Provide sufficient business details to delivery teams to deliver viable solutions.
• Work closely with the product and technical teams to ensure clarity of communication and understanding.
• Use industry and departmental standards to develop artefacts for decision making requirements, business rules, data requirements, system functional and non-functional requirements and user stories.
• Lead the work of less experienced staff and provide coaching and mentoring as needed.
• Set standards and ensure the quality of work produced by junior Business Analysts.
• Provide advice on matters relating to Business Analysis.
• Participate in administrative processes as needed, including recruitment activities.

Job description

Department of Employment and Workplace Relations (DEWR) - Sydney NSW

The Assistant Director - Business Analyst is responsible for ensuring an accurate understanding of the current state and desired future state for large Digital Projects. This includes writing functional requirements and acceptance criteria for features prioritised from product backlogs and ensuring consistency and quality of work for other Business Analysts.

You will work closely with Product Owners, Business Users, Service Designers, Solution Architects, Scrum Masters, Developers and Testers, as well as communications and change management staff.

You will utilise IT project management methodologies (Agile Methodology), and act as a professional representative for projects or programs in internal and external forums. You may oversee or undertake reporting, research and analysis activities.

Using your well-developed relationship management skills, you will contribute across your networks to seek solutions to complex problems. You will operate in a changing environment and responsively under pressure.

The key duties of the position include:

Responsibilities of the Assistant Director - Business Analyst may include:

• Plan, facilitate and lead workshops with business stakeholders, subject matter experts, application owners and technical teams.
• Participate in agile ceremonies.
• Participate in design, planning, and estimation sessions.
• Work closely with system users to map business processes for the purpose of understanding business domain problems.
• Analyse and communicate solution options.
• Write functional requirements along with acceptance criteria.
• Work with pre-delivery teams to identify viable solutions.
• Provide sufficient business details to delivery teams to deliver viable solutions.
• Work closely with the product and technical teams to ensure clarity of communication and understanding.
• Use industry and departmental standards to develop artefacts for decision making requirements, business rules, data requirements, system functional and non-functional requirements and user stories.
• Lead the work of less experienced staff and provide coaching and mentoring as needed.
• Set standards and ensure the quality of work produced by junior Business Analysts.
• Provide advice on matters relating to Business Analysis.
• Participate in administrative processes as needed, including recruitment activities.

Eligibility

Please note, under section 22(8) of the Public Service Act 1999, employees must be Australian citizens to be employed in the APS unless the Agency delegate has agreed, in writing.

This is a designated security assessed position. The successful candidate will have the ability to obtain and maintain a Baseline security clearance.

This selection process may be used to establish a merit pool. The pool might be accessed to fill ongoing and non-ongoing vacancies for similar roles in the Department over the next 18 months.

Getting to know the Department of Employment and Workplace Relations (DEWR)

We are the department that helps job seeking Australians find safe, secure, and well-paid work while we ourselves strive to be a model employer. We provide the framework for fair and productive relationships between employers and employees. We also oversee skills development and training initiatives to support those entering the workforce or retraining to take advantage of emerging employment opportunities.Secure jobs are vital - driving future economic growth and providing people with the certainty. We focus on connecting Australians who are starting, advancing or changing their career with the relevant skills, knowledge and experience to gain or regain employment.Our work directly contributes to shaping the employment landscape. It is our unique purpose to help people realise their potential and we want you to be part of it.Underpinning our important work is our focus on culture. We recognise that how we do things is equally important as what we achieve. Our workplace is one where different perspective are encouraged, people feel a sense of belonging and draw on the expertise of their peers. Our people demonstrate the APS Values, which includes being open, thoughtful, curious and candid. We also value employee wellbeing and developing leadership through investment in capability.