Business Analyst - Data Analytics

Our client is a federal government organisation with offices throughout Australia. Due to growth, they are seeking an APS6 Business Analyst to join their team in their Richmond or Geelong office.

12-month initial contract plus 12-month extension, excellent rates negotiable
Richmond or Geelong location, hybrid with 3 days per week onsite minimum
Federal government role – Australian citizenship required

The APS6 Technical Business Analyst role will support the delivery of strategic data assets and data products by collaborating with business and technical users of the Data & Analytics technology to author high quality business and technical requirements that align to the target architecture and business use cases.

The role will be critical to the success of the delivery of the data assets and data products roadmap by being a trusted voice that all areas of the Data & Analytics branch and other stakeholders can interact with to work through delivery scope, timeline and issues and bring together the business need with the data solution.

Key duties and responsibilities:

Develop a traceability framework for project team members to follow to ensure all project deliverables link to an agreed business outcome via succinct and unambiguous business and technical requirements.Elicit and document business and technical requirements to support the strategy and goals of the Agency as they relate to the Data & Analytics transformation program.
Analyse and document business process and data flows to provide current and future state context to support business and technical requirements.
Collaborate with stakeholders to ensure appropriate stakeholders are included in the development of business and technical requirements, including facilitating relevant workshops, meetings, working groups, etc.
Review and provide feedback on business and technical design documents to ensure designs align with expected business outcomes, as captured by business and technical requirements.
Input to the design and implementation of solutions that deliver to the business and technical requirements and meet the expected business and technical outcomes.

To apply for this opportunity, you will need the Selection Criteria below:
Essential criteria

Demonstrated expertise leading hands-on business and technical requirement development and stakeholder validation in a large-scale business data and analytics transformation program.
Experience implementing Data and/or Analytics products and services and accompanying data architecture (e.g. Data Models, ETL, data governance, security).
Demonstrated expertise documenting data and process flows to analyse and provide context to business and technical requirements.
Ability to gather, analyse and translate business data to meaningful and actionable insights.
Ability to gather, analyse and translate business data to meaningful and actionable insights.
Practical Agile, Hybrid and/or Waterfall delivery framework experience.

Desirable criteria

Experience in working with diverse project, in-house development, and vendor teams to deploy complex, integrated technologies and effect business change.
Experience as a scrum master.
Experience with SAS Viya 4 platform.
Hands on data analysis skills in interrogating data, source to target data mapping and data lineage (e.g. SQL, Python).

APPLY:
Submit your resume or contact Shelley at shelley.harrison@talentinternational.com or call on 0418 572 482 for further information. Shortlisted will be contacted and applicants will be required to address and complete the above Selection Criteria (candidate must provide a one page pitch to address all criteria specified. This is equal to 5000 characters).

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