Lead Business Analyst

Velan Consulting Pty Ltd - Direct Supplier to both Federal and Private Clients.
Lead Business Analyst ( Multiple ) / Canberra - Hybrid | Australian Citizens with Baseline | Long-Term Contract |
Working arrangements : Hybrid
About the team
Risk, Data & Insight Systems (RDIS) Branch, within Strategy Digital & Data Division, plays a key role in delivering and maintaining critical ICT systems capabilities and projects across the Department, Australian Border Force (ABF) and National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA). RDIS manages the development and operations of a range of sensitive and operational ICT capabilities, inclusive of:
• Critical Infrastructure;
• Data Applications;
• Emergency Management;
• Maritime Domain Awareness;
• International Traveler Processing Awareness;
• Cargo and International Mail Processing Awareness;
• Visa Processing Awareness;
• Situational Awareness; and
• Enterprise Platforms:
o Business Intelligence Reporting;
o CIE Data Applications;
o Data Warehouse; and
o Enterprise Geospatial Platform.
Both positions sit within the RDISs, Capability Planning & Delivery (CPD) section. CPD currently have several Business Analysts working on various critical projects across the Branch.
Job Description
Business Analysts seek to understanding business processes and determining business requirements for systems.
Key Responsibilities
The Specified Personnel will be responsible for providing the following deliverables including but not limited to:
Providing strategic planning, mapping and modelling development;
Leading gap-analysis activities to determine whether any of the existing capabilities held within the Department can meet the requirements for a future visualisation capability;
Developing the solution blueprint for a future visualisation capability;
Identifying and conveying (verbally and in writing) the objective of a business need to the appropriate stakeholder level – enterprise, program, operational and project levels;
Working on highly complex projects;
Managing multiple tasks with competing priorities and deadlines;
Working with business stakeholders to establish and prioritize each business requirement according to its merits of enhancing business efficacy;
Working with business stakeholders to present all pertinent business information to an agreed standard as required by ICT to enable solution design and application support in accordance with agreed and approved business requirements;
In consultation with business and ICT stakeholders, develop innovative solutions to identified business challenges;
Defining and documenting new business practices and processes in a consistent and easily understood manner and facilitating the agreement and sign-off of these with appropriate stakeholders;
Managing the development of effective working relationships with stakeholders and include qualities such as ethics, trustworthiness and personal organisation;
Working in and across teams for varying duration to achieve the identified work area outcomes - this may require team leadership and/or technical leadership skills;
Organising, facilitating and co-facilitating workshops to extract business requirements and defining new or improved business processes;
Developing training needs analysis.
The Specified Personnel will be responsible for producing the following deliverables, including but not limited to:
Business Process Maps;
Business Specifications;
Functional Specifications;
Risk Management Plans;
Status Reports;
Technical Specifications.
Essential criteria
1.Business modelling level 5 - Produces models in support of the business strategy. Has in-depth knowledge of a broad range of industry-wide modelling techniques. Advises on the choice of techniques and approaches and influences customers accordingly. Develops bespoke models for unusual contexts. Responsible for planning and coordinating team modelling activities and for ensuring the quality of their work.
2.Business process improvement level 5 - 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.
3.Business situation analysis level 5 - Plans, manages and investigates business situation analysis where there is significant ambiguity and complexity. Advises on the approach and techniques to be used for business situation analysis. Ensures holistic view adopted to identify and analyse wide-ranging problems and opportunities. Engages and collaborates with a wide range of stakeholders, including those at the management level. Gains agreement from stakeholders to conclusions and recommendations. Contributes to definition of organisational standards and guidelines for business situation analysis.
4.Consultancy level 5 - Takes responsibility for understanding client requirements, collecting data, delivering analysis and problem resolution. Identifies, evaluates and recommends options. Collaborates with, and facilitates stakeholder groups, as part of formal or informal consultancy agreements. Seeks to fully address client needs and implements solutions if required. Enhances the capabilities and effectiveness of clients, by ensuring that proposed solutions are fully understood and appropriately exploited.
5.Feasibility assessment level 5 - Manages investigative work to enable feasibility assessments. Collaborates with stakeholders and specialists to get the information required for feasibility assessment. Advises on the selection of feasibility assessment approaches and techniques relevant to the business situation and options. Prepares business cases, including cost/benefit, impact and risk analysis for each option.
Desirable criteria
1.Minimum of five (5) consecutive years performing within a Senior Lead Business Analyst role.
2.Stakeholder relationship management level 5 - Identifies the communications and relationship needs of stakeholder groups. Translates communications/stakeholder engagement strategies into specific activities and deliverables. Facilitates open communication and discussion between stakeholders. Acts as a single point of contact by developing, maintaining and working to stakeholder engagement strategies and plans. Provides informed feedback to assess and promote understanding. Facilitates business decision-making processes. Captures and disseminates technical and business information.
3.User experience analysis level 4 - Selects appropriate techniques and tools to develop user stories and elicit user experience requirements in complex situations. Identifies and describes the design goals for systems, products, services and devices. Identifies the roles of affected stakeholder groups. Resolves potential conflicts between differing user requirements. Specifies measurable criteria for the required usability and accessibility of systems, products, services and devices.
4.Requirements definition and management level 5 - Plans and drives scoping, requirements definition and prioritisation activities for large, complex initiatives. Selects, adopts and adapts appropriate requirements definition and management methods, tools and techniques. Contributes to the development of organisational methods and standards for requirements management. Obtains input from, and agreement to requirements from a diverse range of stakeholders. Negotiates with stakeholders to manage competing priorities and conflicts. Establishes requirements baselines. Ensures changes to requirements are investigated and managed.
Please mail your resume in word format along with residency status, security clearance, location, availability details, role preference, current & expected Salary, reason for job change, constraints if any - to : jobs@velanconsulting.com.au
Cheers,
Velan Consulting Recruitment Team

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