Senior Business Analyst at Woolworths Group Limited

Woolworths Ltd.; Auckland; On-site; NZD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Woolworths Group Limited in Auckland City, NZ is seeking a Senior Business Analyst to bridge user needs and business objectives in a digital environment. This full-time on-site role offers opportunities for career growth.

You will lead discovery, manage backlogs, design solutions, and mentor other analysts while embracing both Agile and Waterfall delivery in a hybrid work setting.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of proven experience as a Technical Business Analyst in digital or technology-driven environments.
• Deep expertise in Agile (Scrum, Kanban) and Waterfall methodologies.
• Ability to elicit and analyze complex technical requirements, including data modeling.
• Experience translating technical requirements into user-centric solutions.
• Experience coaching and mentoring squads and analysts.

Responsibilities

• Lead Discovery & Requirements: run workshops and document business needs and specifications.
• Backlog Prioritisation and Grooming: maintain a healthy, prioritized backlog for tech teams.
• Drive Solution Design: collaborate with cross-functional teams to design solutions.
• Architect Technical Solutions: align designs with business strategy across teams.
• Champion User-Centric Design: ensure solutions meet user needs and feasibility.
• Facilitate Quality Delivery: support testing and acceptance criteria with QA teams.
• Mentor & Improve: coach analysts to develop shared understanding and skills.
• Coaching and mentoring other Business Analysts to build capability.

Skills

BA Experience

Agile & Waterfall

Technical Analysis

User-Centered Design

Leadership

Job description

Apply for Senior Business Analyst at Woolworths Group Limited in Auckland City, N, NZ. This Full time on site position offers great opportunities for career growth.

We are Woolworths Group | Ko Woolworths Tātou We are Woolworths Group. 200,000+ bright minds, passionate hearts, and unique perspectives across Australia and New Zealand. Connected by a shared Purpose - 'to create better experiences together for a better tomorrow'. That Purpose fuels our ambition to explore new ideas, make brave commitments, and innovate better ways to meet the food and everyday needs of more than 24 million customers every week. If you're excited to turn today's blue-sky thinking into a better tomorrow for future generations, you'll find yourself supported and enriched in a dynamic, inclusive, and empowering workplace. With a culture of genuine care, a flexible approach to work, and opportunities across the group to grow your career and make a meaningful impact, the possibilities for what we can achieve together are endless.

What you’ll do | Hei mahi

As a Sr. Business Analyst, you will serve as the pivotal bridge between user needs and business objectives, championing user-centric research, shaping product strategy, and collaborating across teams to deliver high-impact, value-driven solutions.

• Lead Discovery & Requirements: Lead complex workshops, interviews, and other discovery activities to gather and document comprehensive business requirements, user needs, and functional and non-functional specifications for major projects.
• Backlog Prioritisation and Grooming: Work with business and product stakeholders to ensure a healthy backlog. A healthy backlog is a prioritised set of stories with enough detail for technology teams to execute at any point in time.
• Drive Solution Design: Take ownership in collaborating with cross-functional teams, developers, architects, SREs, and product managers, to lead the design of complex technical solutions that align with business strategies and ensure designs meet strategic business requirements and user needs.
• Architect Technical Solutions: Partner with cross-functional teams (developers, architects, SREs) to design complex solutions that align with business strategy.
• Champion User-Centric Design: Work alongside UX and Engineering to ensure solutions are both feasible and perfectly aligned with user needs.
• Facilitate Quality Delivery: Support the testing and implementation of clear acceptance criteria, in collaboration with Quality Engineers to ensure effective and high quality delivery.
• Mentor & Improve: Championing business analysis best practices & empowering teams to become T-shaped by coaching them in generating shared understanding.
• Coaching and mentoring other Business Analysts to develop their skills and improve their capability.

What you’ll bring | Hei koha

You will have proven experience as a Sr. Business Analyst in a digital or technology-driven environment, combined with expertise in both Agile and Waterfall methodologies and a demonstrated ability to translate complex technical requirements into user-centric solutions. To be successful in this position, you will have:

• Proven BA Expertise: Bring 5+ years of proven experience as a Technical Business Analyst in digital or technology-driven environments, applying best-practice standards.
• Methodology Mastery: Demonstrate deep expertise in Agile (e.g., Scrum, Kanban) and Waterfall methodologies to deliver successful project outcomes.
• Technical & Analytical Prowess: Shine in eliciting and analyzing complex technical requirements, including system analysis and data modeling for large-scale projects.
• Human-Centric Mindset: Leverage your exposure to human-centered design practices to create solutions that truly resonate with user needs.
• Collaborative Leadership: Use your experience in coaching and mentoring to empower squads, fostering a collaborative environment where teams thrive together.

What you’ll experience | Ngā Huanga

Our Team Members are at the heart of everything we do and we’re always looking for ways to support your career journey and reward great work:

• A commitment to flexibility through a hybrid working model which combines time spent at a support office or hub and time working from home, supporting both in-person connection and balancing the flexibility that remote working provides for our teams.
• High-impact role supporting our teams who enrich our communities.
• A global business with endless career possibilities around every corner and across every discipline – with valuable exposure to a vast and exciting business network.
• A range of programs to help you prioritise and manage your wellbeing, including 24/7 access to the Sonder app.
• A progressive and competitive leave policy that gives you more space for what matters to you.
• Team discounts across our range of Woolworths Group brands you know and love and a robust rewards program that celebrates and incentivises purpose-driven work.

Everyone belongs at Woolworths Group | No Woolworths tātou

Diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging are key to realising our purpose of better together for a better tomorrow. We recognise the value our team’s diversity brings to our business, customers, and communities and that teams with diverse experiences and backgrounds enrich our group and are better able to innovate and solve problems. As one of the largest employers in Australia and New Zealand, we aim to create a truly inclusive workplace where everyone feels that they belong, can be their best selves, and reach their full potential.