Business Analyst

About This Role

Key Responsibilities

• Analyse existing and legacy systems to identify data and integration requirements
• Work with business and analytics stakeholders to understand data sharing and reporting needs, data definitions, security requirements and data-sharing constraints
• Prepare source-to-target mappings and document data lineage, metadata, business rules, data ingestion and transformation requirements, use cases and functional or technical requirements for system integrations
• Profile systems and data into integration catalogues for enterprise architecture
• Conduct a desktop assessment of Integration Platform as a Service (iPaaS) market offerings
• Develop system integration testing and user acceptance testing scenarios with developers, testers, business analysts and business users
• Document requirements for the transition of finance processes and systems, in consultation with the Solution Architect
• Provide input to solution architecture, roadmaps, reporting delivery, data maturity, governance and operating model design
• Coordinate activities with the Solution Designer and Project Managers and maintain clear, high-quality documentation
• Transfer knowledge to staff and prepare documentation for an effective handover
• Build constructive relationships across the organisation and other agencies, and contribute to a positive, collaborative team culture

Requirements

• Demonstrated experience analysing legacy or existing systems and mapping them into source-to-target data and integration requirements
• Experience with ETL/ELT processes from a business analysis or requirements perspective
• Experience developing or maintaining conceptual, logical and dimensional data models
• Strong written and verbal communication, including formal documentation, process mapping, diagramming and modelling
• Strong stakeholder engagement, critical thinking and problem solving, with the ability to work effectively in an ambiguous delivery environment
• Understanding of integration platforms and enterprise architecture patterns, ideally in a multi-agency or government environment
• Consent to a criminal history check and return a clear result before starting

Preferred Skills and Qualifications

• Hands-on exposure to Azure Databricks, including ELT and data modelling
• Experience prototyping or presenting reports in Power BI
• Technical experience building data pipelines
• Experience explaining API integrations, database schemas and system designs to non-technical stakeholders
• Experience delivering data platform, reporting modernisation or analytics initiatives in government or another complex organisation

Benefits & Perks

• ASAP start
• On site full-time for the first 3 months, then up to 2 days WFH per week by agreement