Senior Business Analysts

The Department of Employment and Workplace Relations (DEWR) enables access to quality skills, training, and employment to support Australians find secure work in fair, productive and safe workplaces – supporting individuals, businesses and our nation to prosper. The department is seeking experienced Lead Business Analysts to meet emerging needs of the department and business areas. Key duties and responsibilities As a Lead Business Analyst, you will be required to: Work closely with business and system users to map business processes for the purpose of understanding business domain problems. Provide data-driven insights to support decision-making and cost estimation. Analyse and communicate business solution options.  Work with pre-delivery teams to identify viable solutions.  Write functional requirements along with acceptance criteria.  Create and manage User Stories and other DevOps Work Items.  Provide sufficient business details to delivery teams to deliver viable solutions.  Work closely with the product and technical teams to ensure clarity of communication and understanding.  Use industry and departmental standards to develop artefacts for decision making, requirements, business rules, data requirements, system functional and non-functional requirements. **Please note that DEWR will not be extending this opportunity to any additional Sellers**   Criteria The buyer has specified that each candidate must provide a one page pitch to address all criteria specified. This is equal to 5000 characters. Essential criteria 1. Demonstrated experience working in an enterprise-class environment with business and technology areas undertaking lead business analysis activities through the entire SDLC, including producing business-focused documentation and technology-focussed documentation. 2. Demonstrated experience working in an agile delivery team developing artefacts such as business process maps, user stories, acceptance criteria, wireframes and/or prototypes using DevOps toolsets to manage and allocate work. 3. Experience coordinating and leading consultation with internal and external stakeholders to elicit requirements and to share-back analysis and distillation of the requirements, and to coordinate user review and acceptance activities. 4. Some experience using technologies such as SQL queries, MS Excel, and or Power BI for the purposes of lead business analysis. Desirable criteria 1. Previous experience in a Government Agency is desired, including the Department of Employment and Workplace Relations. 2. Previous experience or an interest in root cause analysis, process governance and workaround management such as in a problem coordinator role. Opportunity summary Sellers can submit Up to 3 candidates Number of sellers invited More than 10 Number of candidates submitted Fewer than 10 Send us feedback About Accessibility Privacy Terms of use Disclaimer and copyright An initiative of the Digital Transformation Agency The Australian Government acknowledges the Traditional Owners of Country throughout Australia and acknowledges their continuing connection to land, waters and community. We pay our respects to the people, the cultures and the Elders past and present. © Commonwealth of Australia