Technical Business Analyst

About us 

At Uniting, we believe in taking real steps to make the world a better place. We work to inspire people, enliven communities and confront injustice. 

Our services are in the areas of aged care and disability, community services, and chaplaincy and we get involved in social justice and advocacy issues that impact the people we serve.  We commit to respecting children and take action to keep them safe. 

As an organisation we celebrate our diversity and welcome all people regardless of ethnicity, faith, sexual orientation and gender identity. 

We are bold, imaginative, respectful and compassionate. 

About the opportunity 

Uniting has commenced a multi-year data and analytics program. This role as Technical Business Analyst will be responsible for liaising and partnering with stakeholders from the business and IT to understand, document and articulate requirements related to data and business intelligence.  They will gain an appreciation of business needs and operational pain points and translate into data, reporting and business intelligence requirements, including the requirements for rationalisation of existing static reporting into a modern data and analytics solutions, and will also be responsible for investigating data quality issues that may impact reporting, and reverse-engineering existing reporting to understand and map from current to future state solutions. 

Responsibilities 

• Work with business owners and key stakeholders to elicit, analyse, communicate and validate requirements and then document these requirements into data and/or business intelligence specifications 

• Work with process owners to help gain agreement of, and document, quality assurance process for ensuring data remains in alignment across systems 

• Assist in the formulation of, and prepare documentation for, data governance and data quality assurance processes  

• Facilitate testing of data, dashboard and reporting solutions 

• Work as part of a multi-disciplinary agile team to deliver high quality business value driven user stories with well-defined acceptance criteria 

• Consult with the Product Owner to priorities and shape the product backlog, using agile practices for prioritisation around business value 

• Ensure that a customer centric approach is being followed/adopted with every feature built  

• Participate in, and facilitate, agile ceremonies and rituals, backlog refinement, forward modelling, daily stand-up, iteration and release planning, showcases, sprint retrospective. 

 Qualifications 

• Tertiary qualifications in IT or a related discipline.  

Skills & Experience 

• Prior experience as a Data Analyst, Business Data Analyst or Technical Business Analyst, and involvement in requirements gathering for business intelligence projects 

• Proficient with Jira 

• Experienced writing user stories and facilitating meetings / workshops with business and IT stakeholders 

• Experienced running and participating in scrum ceremonies 

• SQL experience 

• Demonstrated ability to provide technical analysis, interpret data, and use of relevant software applications

Even better: 

• Consulting background 

• Data modelling experience 

• SAFE Agile experience 

What is in it for you?

You will be part of a fun and friendly supportive team, feel valued and work in a fast-paced environment for a progressive organisation.  Uniting is a phase of growth and transformation; the latter may lead to opportunity to grow with us! Salary packaging option and a level of flexibility is offered.

Employment with Uniting is subject to satisfactory background checks which may include a national Police check, working with children check, working with vulnerable people check and reference checks.

Uniting is proud to be an EEO employer. Uniting supports an inclusive approach in the workplace. We celebrate our diversity and welcome staff regardless of ethnicity, faith, sexual orientation, gender identity, and lifestyle choices. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people are encouraged to apply.

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