Business Analyst - Data

Morgan McKinley; City of Melbourne; On-site; AUD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Morgan McKinley is looking for an experienced Business Analyst with a data focus to support a major data modernisation program. You will run discovery sessions, capture requirements, and help design a Databricks-based Azure platform with strong governance and reporting capabilities.

You will work across business and technical teams, document non-functional needs, and contribute to target-state and migration planning. Strong stakeholder engagement and Agile delivery maturity are essential.

Qualifications

• 3+ years as a BA on reporting, BI or data analytics programs.
• Hands‑on involvement in Azure data platform initiatives, ideally with Databricks, ADLS, Data Factory and related Azure services.
• Confidence documenting technical and non-functional requirements, not just business ones.
• Experience assessing legacy data environments and contributing to target‑state and roadmap work.
• Strong facilitation, negotiation and written communication skills.
• Solid grounding in Agile ways of working.

Responsibilities

• Run discovery sessions and workshops with business leaders, end users, engineers and product owners to define platform deliverables.
• Capture needs as user stories, functional designs, process views, wireframes and mock-ups within an Agile delivery model.
• Define non-functional aspects of a Databricks-based platform on Azure: access control, security, connectivity, governance, cost controls and performance.
• Review current data landscape and shape future-state design, including data flows, lineage, source-to-target mapping and migration plan.
• Write integration specifications between source systems and the platform.
• Ensure reporting needs, especially Power BI, are reflected in platform design.
• Broker trade-offs and agreement across stakeholder priorities.

Skills

Business Analysis

Data Analytics

Facilitation

Agile

Stakeholder Negotiation

Requirements Documentation

Tools

Azure Data Platform

Databricks

Power BI

ADLS

Data Factory

Job description

We're supporting a major data modernisation program. It needs an experienced Business Analyst with a strong focus on data who is equally comfortable in a requirements workshop and in a technical design discussion about cloud data platforms.

What you'll be doing

• Running discovery sessions and workshops with business leaders, end users, engineers and product owners to define what the new platform must deliver
• Capturing needs as user stories, functional designs, process views, wireframes and mock-ups within an Agile delivery model
• Defining the non-functional side of a Databricks-based platform on Azure: access control and security, connectivity, ingestion patterns, governance, support model, cost controls, performance and scale
• Reviewing the current data landscape and helping shape the future-state design, including data flows, lineage, source-to-target mapping and a staged migration plan
• Writing integration specifications between source systems and the platform
• Making sure reporting needs, especially Power BI, are properly reflected in platform design
• Brokering trade-offs and agreement across competing stakeholder priorities

What you'll bring

• 3+ years as a BA on reporting, BI or data analytics programs (essential)
• Hands‑on involvement in Azure data platform initiatives, ideally with Databricks, ADLS, Data Factory and related Azure services
• Confidence documenting technical and non-functional requirements, not just business ones
• Experience assessing legacy data environments and contributing to target‑state and roadmap work
• Strong facilitation, negotiation and written communication skills
• Solid grounding in Agile ways of working

Nice to have

• Exposure to Unity Catalog, data governance frameworks or platform cost optimisation
• Prior work on cloud data migrations at enterprise scale

If you've helped take a data platform from whiteboard to delivery and enjoy being the bridge between business and engineering, we'd like to hear from you.