Assistant Director - Business Analyst

The Assistant Director - Business Analyst is responsible for ensuring an accurate understanding of the current state and desired future state for large Digital Projects. This includes writing functional requirements and acceptance criteria for features prioritised from product backlogs and ensuring consistency and quality of work for other Business Analysts.

You will work closely with Product Owners, Business Users, Service Designers, Solution Architects, Scrum Masters, Developers and Testers, as well as communications and change management staff.

You will utilise IT project management methodologies (Agile Methodology), and act as a professional representative for projects or programs in internal and external forums. You may oversee or undertake reporting, research and analysis activities.

Using your well-developed relationship management skills, you will contribute across your networks to seek solutions to complex problems. You will operate in a changing environment and responsively under pressure.

Responsibilities of the Assistant Director - Business Analyst may include:

• Plan, facilitate and lead workshops with business stakeholders, subject matter experts, application owners and technical teams. 
• Participate in agile ceremonies.
• Participate in design, planning, and estimation sessions.
• Work closely with system users to map business processes for the purpose of understanding business domain problems.
• Analyse and communicate solution options.
• Write functional requirements along with acceptance criteria.
• Work with pre-delivery teams to identify viable solutions.
• 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 and user stories.
• Lead the work of less experienced staff and provide coaching and mentoring as needed.
• Set standards and ensure the quality of work produced by junior Business Analysts.
• Provide advice on matters relating to Business Analysis.
• Participate in administrative processes as needed, including recruitment activities.

Please note, under section 22(8) of the Public Service Act 1999, employees must be Australian citizens to be employed in the APS unless the Agency delegate has agreed, in writing.

This is a designated security assessed position. The successful candidate will have the ability to obtain and maintain a Baseline security clearance. 

This selection process may be used to establish a merit pool. The pool might be accessed to fill ongoing and non-ongoing vacancies for similar roles in the Department over the next 18 months.