Business Analyst

Description

Remote is seeking a Business Analyst to support the delivery of REDSPICE initiatives and major Defence projects in ASD. The role involves managing stakeholder engagement meetings, gathering and managing business and technical requirements, and modelling moderately complex business processes. The Business Analyst will also provide advice on systems design within a Services Oriented Architecture, work with development teams to improve Agile processes, and communicate system improvements and enhancements

Role Information

Job Duties and Responsibilities

• Manage stakeholder engagement meetings involving customers that have unique and often conflicting requirements and priorities.

• Gather, document, communicate and manage business and technical requirements.

• Model moderately complex business processes.

• Provide advice on moderately complex systems design within a Services Oriented Architecture.

• Escalate issues and work with the team to prioritise feature delivery.

• Work with the development teams to continually improve Agile processes.

• Communicate customer and developer needs regarding system improvements, enhancements, and elimination of problems and inefficiencies and acceptance testing, ensuring mutually beneficial outcomes.

• Assist in the development and management of a prioritised schedule of work.

• Work with other business analysts and product owners to ensure applications are complimentary, fit for purpose and integrated wherever appropriate.

Essential criteria

1. Business modelling: Level 3 (SFIA)

Conversant with techniques covering the full range of modelling situations. Models current and desired scenarios as directed. Selects appropriate modelling techniques for meeting assigned objectives. Gains agreement from subject matter experts on models produced. Reviews resulting models with stakeholders and resolves identified issues.

1. Business process improvement: Level 5 (SFIA)

Manages the execution of business process improvements. Analyses and designs business processes to identify alternative solutions to improve efficiency, effectiveness and exploit new technologies and automation. Develops graphical models of business processes to facilitate understanding and decision-making. Assesses the feasibility of business process changes and recommends alternative approaches. Selects, tailors and implements methods and tools for improving business processes at programme, project or team level. Contributes to the definition of organisational policies, standards, and guidelines for business process improvement.

1. Business situation analysis: Level 4 (SFIA)

Investigates business situations where there is some complexity and ambiguity. Adopts holistic view to identify and analyse problems and opportunities. Contributes to the selection of the approach and techniques to be used for business situation analysis. Conducts root cause analysis and identifies recommendations for improvements. Engages and collaborates with operational stakeholders.

1. Requirements definition and management: Level 4 (SFIA)

Defines and manages scoping, requirements definition and prioritisation activities for initiatives of medium size and complexity. Contributes to selecting the requirements approach. Facilitates input from stakeholders, provides constructive challenge and enables effective prioritisation of requirements. Establishes requirements base-lines, obtains formal agreement to requirements, and ensures traceability to source.

Desirable criteria

1. Stakeholder relationship management: Level 4 (SFIA)

Deals with problems and issues, managing resolutions, corrective actions, lessons learned, and the collection and dissemination of relevant information. Implements stakeholder engagement/communications plan. Collects and uses feedback from customers and stakeholders to help measure the effectiveness of stakeholder management. Helps develop and enhance customer and stakeholder relationships.

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