Senior Business Analyst

⁠⁠⁠The organisation

The Department of Agriculture, Water and the Environment is undertaking a number of projects to streamline and accelerate digital transformation for Australia's primary industries. Many of our existing services are being redesigned with an aim to improve the human experience.

The role

Our department is looking for an experienced Senior Business Analyst with a passion for making government products and services better for the Australian community. This person should have demonstrated proficiency in a wide range of business analysis skills and techniques. Ideally this person will have several years of experience as a business analyst and be able to plan, supervise or lead others where necessary.

About you

• Extensive experience using multiple business analysis techniques and skills from various methodologies
• Ability to choose and apply techniques that will provide the most value for any given situation/project
• Excellent at facilitating collaboration between all project stakeholders, including designing and leading workshops
• Ability to independently seek out and engage stakeholders, establishing and nurturing productive relationships
• Excellent creative problem-solving skills
• Experience with Agile and Iterative Development
• Work independently in complex situations with a pragmatic approach to allocated work, demonstrating commitment to project outcomes
• Demonstrated ability to produce high quality, concise, easy to read and relevant architecture and analysis documentation for digital services

An added bonus

• Experience in guiding projects on the adoption of the Australian Government’s Digital Service Standard and the principles behind human-centred design
• Experience in data analysis, modelling and/or projects related to the management of scientific and/or statistical data. Experience using Microsoft Power BI would be beneficial.

Part of the role includes contributing to our departments centralised business analysis and service design resource, known as the BA Centre.

Work tasks include:

• Supporting strategic business engagement and project initiation
• Pre-project analysis and discovery
• Project change management
• Contributing to capability uplift
• Progressing the department’s ICT strategy and Enterprise Architecture

Preferred candidates will be required to complete pre-employment screening, including a national police check and misconduct screening. Applicants must be an Australian Citizen, Permanent Resident or hold a valid work permit or visa. Work eligibility is checked as part of the recruitment process.