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Form of work- Initial contract until end of Dec 2024 with possible extension paying from $950/day
- City Fringe Location with flexibility to WFH 2 days per week
Our client, a large complex reputable organisation, are currently seeking 2 x Principal Business Analysts for their Digital Experience Platform.
The successful candidates will be responsible for unpacking the problem space, articulating the business and user needs from a new solution, gathering and documenting requirements, and mapping current, transitional and future-states operational states. Must have strong analytical and communication skills (written and verbal), with an advanced ability to collaborate and facilitate discussion with business, technical and project stakeholders to gain consensus on the way forward.
Previous experience implementing Content Management platforms is highly desirable.
To be successful in this role, the Principal Business Analyst will have:
- Strong experience in deploying enterprise technologies across large, highly complex organisations
- A systems-thinking mindset that places the customer at the centre of business and technology change
- Strength in establishing and maintaining effective relationships with affected stakeholders across diverse organisational groups
- Initial contract until end of Dec 2024 with possible extension paying from $950/day
- City Fringe Location with flexibility to WFH 2 days per week
Our client, a large complex reputable organisation, are currently seeking 2 x Principal Business Analysts for their Digital Experience Platform.
The successful candidates will be responsible for unpacking the problem space, articulating the business and user needs from a new solution, gathering and documenting requirements, and mapping current, transitional and future-states operational states. Must have strong analytical and communication skills (written and verbal), with an advanced ability to collaborate and facilitate discussion with business, technical and project stakeholders to gain consensus on the way forward.
Previous experience implementing Content Management platforms is highly desirable.
To be successful in this role, the Principal Business Analyst will have:
- Strong experience in deploying enterprise technologies across large, highly complex organisations
- A systems-thinking mindset that places the customer at the centre of business and technology change
- Strength in establishing and maintaining effective relationships with affected stakeholders across diverse organisational groups
- A demonstrated history of applying best-practice techniques across a complete delivery lifecycle, ultimately ensuring complete traceability from business problem to the change/solution being introduced
- Demonstrated experience working in a cross-functional, multi-project delivery environment that realises outcomes and changes concurrently
Key roles and responsibilities include:
- Lead and manage business and solution analysis activities across the program/project organisation
- Work closely with program, business and technical stakeholders to effectively discover, define, validate, prioritise and continuously manage requirements that translate identified needs into solution outcomes which align with architectural principles and strategies.
- Effectively facilitate sessions with diverse stakeholder groups, leveraging best-practice techniques and methodologies (such as design and systems thinking) to achieve desired objectives and outcomes.
- Complete detailed and traceable solution specifications, owning the development and quality of the Business Requirements and Functional Specification that are translated into User Stories to inform development.
- Collaborate with technical specialists, service management stakeholders and relevant subject matter experts to map, document and establish business processes modelling of current, transitional and future states.
- Provide input into the direction for business analysis activities across the program, including business process modelling, business and solution requirements lifecycle management, and data modelling
- Analyse and critically evaluate information from multiple sources to support effective solution definition and design activities that consider competing stakeholder views and needs.
- Analyse and consolidate information to input into the development of the solution options assessments and feasibility studies to ensure that the value proposition is clear, investment is justified, and business benefits can be realised.
- Provide plain language advice on technical issues to non-technical audiences.
- Contribute to system, integration, user acceptance and production verification testing cycles by preparing and executing test plans and scripts.
- Contribute to the Digital Connections Program Business Analysis Community of Practice where possible by actively participating in forums and continuous activities aimed at advancing the Business Analysis Framework and improving maturity.
Essential skills and experience required:
- Education, training and/or relevant experience equivalent to a postgraduate qualification, together with extensive experience in ICT business analysis.
- Demonstrated experience working in a similar role supporting the successful delivery of high-impact and high-value initiatives that lead to meaningful change, with a proven ability to use initiative and self-drive to meet demanding deadlines.
- Expert experience leading large-scale business process modelling (preferably using the Business Process Modelling Notation (BPMN) specification) to identify and map the intersections between people, process and technology.
- Proven ability working with key stakeholders to translate requirements into solution outcomes, using advanced facilitation skills techniques and a strong ability to document the requirements and solution specifications to articulate the future-state of the platform
- Ability to work in a hybrid Waterfall and Agile environment, where requirements elicitation occurs over a phased approach and results in a business and functional requirements specification, and there is a transition to sprinted solution development with the detailed User Stories necessary to develop the platform incrementally.
- Well-developed interpersonal and communication skills that cultivate and maintain productive, collaborative and outcomes-focused working relationships to anticipate and negotiate changes in client expectations and requirements.
- Experience in working with diverse project, in-house development, and vendor teams to deploy complex, integrated technologies and affect business change concurrently
Highly Desirable:
- Previous experience deploying enterprise Content Management software would be highly desirable
To submit your application, in strict confidence, please submit your resume in Word Format using the appropriate link quoting reference No. 235665. Should you require further information please email kristy.coulter@hudson.com
Your interest will be treated in the strictest of confidence.
