Associate Business Analyst

Our Federal Government client is seeking an Associate Business Analyst to support data science, machine learning and artificial intelligence initiatives on a 12-month contract with a possible 12-month extension.
As the selected candidate, you will:

• Plan and undertake requirements elicitation through interviews, workshops, document analysis and observation.
• Translate business needs into functional and non-functional requirements, user stories, acceptance criteria, process maps and traceability artefacts.
• Work with stakeholders and technical teams to define business problems, users, desired outcomes, constraints, dependencies, success measures and expected benefits.
• Support delivery planning, prioritisation, backlog refinement, dependency management, status reporting and the coordination of actions, decisions, risks and issues.
• Assist with establishing and facilitating sprint planning, daily stand-ups, showcases, retrospectives and other delivery ceremonies.
• Prepare and maintain governance and assurance documentation, including business cases, artificial intelligence impact assessments, risk and issue records, pilot plans, evaluation documentation and committee papers.
• Build productive relationships across business, data science, technology, privacy, legal, security, risk and responsible artificial intelligence functions.
• Facilitate workshops and communicate complex information clearly to technical and non-technical audiences.
• Provide coordination and administrative support, including meeting coordination, agenda and paper preparation, correspondence, record keeping and routine reporting.

To be successful in this role you are required to have the following;

• Relevant tertiary qualifications in business analysis, business, information technology, project management, data or a related discipline, or equivalent demonstrated experience.
• Demonstrated experience undertaking business analysis and gathering, documenting and managing requirements in a complex delivery environment.
• Experience facilitating workshops and translating business problems and user needs into process maps, user stories, acceptance criteria or other practical delivery artefacts.
• Experience supporting agile or iterative delivery, including sprint ceremonies, backlog refinement, risks, issues, dependencies, actions and status reporting.
• Experience preparing high-quality business cases, briefs, impact assessments, governance submissions or comparable decision-support documentation for operational and executive audiences.
• Australian citizenship and the ability to obtain Baseline security clearance.

Please note that Aida, our after-hours AI conversational screening assistant, may be used as part of the initial application process



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