Assistant Director - Business Analyst

Australian Department of Employment and Workplace Relations; Sydney; On-site; AUD 129,000 - 143,000; Full time

Job summary

Australian Department of Employment and Workplace Relations – Bondi NSW is seeking an Assistant Director - Business Analyst to drive understanding of current and future states for large Digital Projects. You will write functional requirements and acceptance criteria prioritised from product backlogs and ensure quality of work across junior analysts.

You will collaborate with Product Owners, Business Users, Service Designers, Solution Architects, Scrum Masters, Developers and Testers, applying

Qualifications

• Experience with Agile methodologies and project delivery.
• Ability to lead workshops with stakeholders and translate business needs into requirements.
• Strong analytical and communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Plan, facilitate and lead workshops with business stakeholders and technical teams.
• Map business processes and analyse solutions to business problems.
• Write functional requirements and acceptance criteria for features.
• Work with delivery teams to ensure clear communication and feasible solutions.
• Mentor junior analysts and set quality standards for deliverables.
• Participate in recruitment and administrative processes as needed.

Job description

Australian Department of Employment and Workplace Relations – Bondi NSW

$129,477 - $143,099 a year

1d ago , from Department Of Employment And Workplace Relations

• $129,477 - $143,099

About the Department of Employment and Workplace Relations
We are committed to empowering futures, ensuring rights and enriching lives. We support people to have safe, secure and well-paid work with the skills for a sustainable future as 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 re-training to take advantage of emerging employment opportunities.

With us, your work directly contributes to shaping the employment landscape. Whether you are engaging in policy development, program implementation, or direct support services, your efforts will have a tangible impact on job seekers, employees and the economy by giving them a framework to build a future anchored and realised through employment.

It is our ambition to do things differently, to create the 'department of great jobs' - where our people reflect our purpose.

The Role
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.

Duties and Responsibilities
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 design, planning, and estimation sessions.
• Participate in agile ceremonies.
• 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.

• Executive Level 1
• Canberra ACT, Melbourne VIC, Sydney NSW, Brisbane QLD
• $129,477 - $143,099

Citizenship - to be eligible for employment with the Department, you must be an Australian Citizen or, in limited circumstances, in the process of obtaining it.

Security Clearance - our successful candidate is required to hold, or have the ability to obtain, and maintain a Baseline security clearance.