Public Sector Technical Data Analyst & BA

Osborne Richardson; City of Melbourne; On-site; AUD 90,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

Osborne Richardson, a public sector recruitment specialist in Australia, seeks a Technical Business Analyst to support technology projects across a complex environment. You will partner with project managers, data teams, and business stakeholders to define requirements and enable effective data and technology solutions.

You will bridge business needs and technical delivery, focusing on data governance, ingestion, profiling, and analytics.

Qualifications

• Experience as a Business Analyst, Technical Business Analyst, or Data Analyst in data analytics or technology environments.
• Experience supporting data governance activities including data classification, access management, metadata or data catalogue processes.
• Strong understanding of data platforms, data pipelines, data transformation and reporting concepts.
• Practical knowledge of SQL and working familiarity with Python, Azure Data Factory, Databricks or similar cloud data platform tools.
• Ability to gather, clarify and document business and functional requirements, acceptance criteria and process flows.
• Ability to support data ingestion, data mapping, profiling, reconciliation and troubleshooting activities.
• Strong stakeholder engagement and communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Work with business stakeholders and data owners to clarify requirements for data ingestion, access, analytics use cases.
• Document business and functional requirements, acceptance criteria, processes and data decisions.
• Support data governance activities including data classification, metadata collection, data quality reporting and access controls.
• Assist with user onboarding and enablement for CoM Data Central and related services.
• Maintain documentation to support handover, delivery and BAU support.
• Provide ad hoc technical support to business users of CoM Data Central.
• Support source system ingestion activities using SQL, Python, Azure Data Factory and Databricks.
• Document technical requirements, pipeline logic, and data quality checks with data engineers.
• Support development of curated datasets and reusable data assets for reporting and AI.

Skills

Stakeholder engagement

Communication

Requirements gathering

Data analysis

Tools

Azure Data Factory

Databricks

Python

SQL

Job description

Osborne Richardson, a public sector recruitment specialist in Australia, seeks a Technical Business Analyst to support technology projects across a complex environment. You will partner with project managers, data teams, and business stakeholders to define requirements and enable effective data and technology solutions.

You will bridge business needs and technical delivery, focusing on data governance, ingestion, profiling, and analytics.