Senior Business Analyst Analytics Platform & Delivery

New Zealand - All Locations Work from where you are; New Zealand; Remote; NZD 110,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Health New Zealand | Te Whatu Ora is seeking a Senior Business Analyst to shape analytics platform delivery across the enterprise. You will translate business needs into clear requirements and coordinate agile delivery with analytics teams and platform governance.

Based anywhere in New Zealand, this permanent role focuses on delivering trusted analytics and business intelligence to support better patient outcomes.

Qualifications

• Relevant experience in business analysis across BI, data and analytics and delivery management.
• Strong understanding of analytics delivery practices and agile ways of working.
• Ability to translate complex business needs into practical requirements and delivery plans.

Responsibilities

• Lead requirements discovery, workshops and stakeholder interviews.
• Coordinate agile delivery and governance across analytics initiatives.
• Ensure security, privacy and information governance considerations are embedded.
• Collaborate with product owners, analytics teams and technical specialists.

Skills

Business analysis

Agile delivery

Stakeholder engagement

Data & analytics

Education

Tertiary qualification in BA/data analytics

Tools

Qlik

Job description

Senior Business Analyst Analytics Platform & Delivery

• Permanent, full-time position based anywhere in New Zealand.
• Play a key role in shaping and delivering enterprise analytics solutions across Health New Zealand.
• Bring together business needs, analytics delivery and platform governance to ensure solutions are well defined, well governed and deliver meaningful outcomes.
• Work across a complex organisation to support trusted, sustainable and effective use of analytics and business intelligence.

Health New Zealand | Te Whatu Ora is the country's largest employer, delivering universal public healthcare to 5 million New Zealanders.

We provide essential hospital, specialist, and community health services across 80+ locations - from large urban centres to rural towns and remote communities.

Our goal is to improve health outcomes for all New Zealanders by delivering equitable, accessible and innovative care.

About the Role

As the Senior Business Analyst – Analytics Platform & Delivery, you'll provide senior business analysis expertise and agile delivery coordination across analytics and business intelligence initiatives.

Working at the intersection of business stakeholders, analytics delivery teams and platform operations, you'll help ensure analytics solutions are clearly defined, effectively delivered and appropriately governed. You'll play a key role in translating business needs into practical requirements and delivery outcomes that align with Health New Zealand's data and information strategy.

You'll facilitate requirements discovery, workshops, stakeholder interviews and backlog refinement, working closely with Product Owners, analytics teams, technical specialists and business customers to understand needs and define effective solutions.

A key focus of the role will be supporting agile delivery across analytics initiatives. You'll help coordinate delivery activities, facilitate agile ceremonies, maintain clear and transparent progress reporting, and ensure risks, dependencies and issues are identified and addressed early.

You'll also contribute to the governance and operational oversight of Health New Zealand's analytics platforms. This includes coordinating business intelligence application lifecycle, release, access and platform governance activities, while ensuring appropriate consideration is given to security, privacy, data definitions and information governance.

The role will work closely with internal teams and external vendors, helping to maintain strong communication and alignment throughout the delivery lifecycle. You'll bring a practical, collaborative approach and help connect business and technical teams to ensure solutions are fit for purpose and sustainable.

This is an opportunity to influence how analytics solutions are delivered across a large and complex organisation, helping Health New Zealand make better use of data and insights to support improved outcomes for patients, whānau and communities.

About you

We're looking for an experienced Senior Business Analyst who understands the intersection of business needs, data and analytics, technology delivery and platform governance.

You'll bring:

• A relevant tertiary qualification or equivalent depth of experience in business analysis, data and analytics, information systems, delivery management or a related discipline.
• Senior business analysis experience across business intelligence, data and analytics, digital or technology-enabled change initiatives.
• Demonstrated experience facilitating requirements discovery, workshops, stakeholder interviews, backlog refinement and solution definition.
• Strong understanding of analytics delivery practices and agile ways of working.
• Experience working with analytics platforms, including Qlik or comparable enterprise business intelligence platforms.
• An understanding of platform governance, access, security, privacy and information management considerations.
• Strong stakeholder engagement and communication skills, with the ability to work effectively across business, technical and delivery teams.

Experience working within a large, complex health, public sector or regulated data environment would be advantageous.

You'll be a clear and adaptable communicator who can translate complex business, data and technical needs into clear requirements and practical delivery plans. You'll build trusted relationships across diverse stakeholder groups and bring sound judgement, curiosity and a commitment to continuous improvement.

You'll also be comfortable working in an environment where priorities can evolve, balancing delivery needs with appropriate governance, risk management and operational considerations.

Working for Health New Zealand

Health New Zealand | Te Whatu Ora is dedicated to ensuring excellent healthcare for the people of New Zealand. We embrace a workforce that is diverse and inclusive so that we are better positioned to understand and service our community. We welcome applications from our diverse Māori, Pacific, disabled, and rainbow communities.

The full position description is available on the Health New Zealand Careers site.

We will review applications as received and may proceed with the recruitment process before the closing date of this advert.

Job details

Job Reference:

Job Reference: HNZ/1949444

Location:

New Zealand - All Locations - Work from where you are