IT Business Analyst

Role: IT Business Analyst
Employment type: Full time
Location: Melbourne, Australia
Company: InfoCentric
$70,000 - $160,000 plus superannuation.

InfoCentric are currently hiring for a Business Analyst. As part of our team, you will be working with some of Australia's largest organisations to deliver industry leading data solutions. This role is full time and permanent, based out of Melbourne.

About the role

The IT Business Analyst plays a key role within the product development team, acting as the main conduit between the development team and the business by understanding and translating business needs into software requirements, ensuring that the requirements, designs and specifications are captured, defined and well understood by the development team, using agile practices.

Day to day activities

• Work with stakeholders to prioritise the product backlog and defects based on business value, ensuring the value of the work that the team performs.
• Work closely with the project team members to ensure that the product meets the agreed requirements and to ensure the product is of a high quality.
• Accurately describe the problem statement, business impact and client experience.
• Work with the business to clearly identify success criteria for each milestone the team are
• working on.
• Define the acceptance criteria for user stories and requirements to ensure clarity for the
• development team
• Assist with the definition of the testing strategy and test execution including participation
• in testing activities and release readiness assessments.
• May lead agile ceremonies (stand up, retro, showcases, workshops, inceptions etc.) through visualisation techniques
• Gain a thorough understanding of the clients’ business and be able to gather, refine and articulate their needs
• Analyse user requirements and deliver artefacts to assist with understanding - including domain modelling, workflows, user stories and interface design, by liaising with a range of people including users & product managers, drawing together information needs from across the organisation.

Skills Required:

• Minimum 2 years experience working as an IT Business Analyst

• Solid experience in gathering requirements

• Strong knowledge of Software Development Lifecycle

• Strong SQL knowledge

• Agile values and principles: Agile SDLC, Teams, Roles, Ceremonies and Artefacts.

• Jira (working with multiple projects: Scrum and Kanban boards)

• Strong knowledge of testing and automation of testing

• Confluence, Slack, Google Suite, Excel.

• Presentations: project pitches, internal and external demos, feature reviews, design critiques.

• Nice to have experience with wireframes and design tools: Balsamiq/Adobe XD/InVision

• Nice to have experience working with cloud technologies

Who Are We?

InfoCentric is one of the largest specialist Cloud, Data and Analytics Consulting firms

Data is in our DNA – Harnessing the latest technology, delivering thought leading outcomes in AI, Machine Learning, API development and Cloud Platform delivery

We translate the best ideas into awesome outcomes that make a difference to Australia's largest organisations.

• Embrace diversity - We work to understand and celebrate differences to embrace diversity, drive smarter decisions, create new ideas and build a better culture

• Thrive together - We work together in innovative teams to share knowledge and help each other grow

• Realise opportunity - We offer opportunities to develop skills and leadership with paid certifications and team trainings while offering great career growth

• Empower clients - We strive to understand our clients to deliver hands-on solutions to Australia’s largest companies across a diverse industries

• Think big picture - We act in fairness to look after our people, our clients and our community

What We Offer

• Hands on, onshore experience with Australia’s largest organisations

• Paid trainings and certifications on the latest technologies including AWS, Azure and Snowflake

• Great on-site support to help you settle in and progress your career

• Regular social events and company parties. Previous events include private cinema screenings, bubble soccer, minigolf, bowling and social drinks

Due to the high number of applicants we receive, you will be contacted if you are successful. We thank you for your interest in InfoCentric and working with us. If you're unsuccessful for this role we will keep your details and reach out to you with any suitable roles in the future.