Senior IT Business Analyst

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Overall purpose: The Senior Business Analyst role leads the analysis and documentation of Aurecon's project delivery needs to ensure the highest quality change delivery. The Senior Business Analyst has the experience to work quickly and autonomously and will produce high-quality deliverables that meet program and stakeholder needs, bringing confidence, leadership, and a strong work ethic to ensure successful IT initiative implementations at Aurecon.

Reports to: Business Analysis Lead, Project Manager(s).

Key Relationships: Portfolio and project managers, solution designers and architects, business stakeholders, offshore technical teams, vendor teams, business analyst peers.

About You

• You are a highly skilled Senior Business Analyst with a proven track record across BA, data and testing activities.
• You have experience with NIST and ACSC Standards, and previous Cyber Security initiatives.
• You enjoy solving problems and take responsibility for your domain.
• You deal with challenges pragmatically and constructively, with strong attention to detail and the ability to think outside the box.
• You have a broad perspective and can anticipate risks and impacts beyond your immediate domain.
• You can facilitate and drive working group discussions with senior stakeholders and subject matter experts.
• You have in-depth knowledge of Excel and can analyze data to uncover insights that shape decision making.
• You have demonstrated experience in capturing and articulating requirements.

Essential Work Experience

• 5+ years exposure as a Cyber Security BA and exposure to NIST and ACSC Standards
• 7+ years Business and Data Analysis
• 3+ years in testing roles
• Must have worked as a BA on Security projects (e.g., IaaS, IAM, PAM, Infrastructure Security, Cloud PaaS, CMDB data analysis)

Business Analysis Activities

• Gathering, documenting, and obtaining sign-off of business, functional and non-functional requirements aligned with Aurecon PMO and security standards (E8 / NIST Level 2)
• Agile/Scrum experience – Mandatory
• Analyze feasibility of security options with business, IT teams and vendors; recommend the most appropriate solution
• Build and maintain stakeholder relationships to ensure alignment between business strategy, technology, security, and solution delivery
• Document process information in defined templates
• Identify issues and risks and propose workarounds and resolutions
• Contribute to and review requirements and process documentation

Data Analysis Activities

• Analyze large data sets into meaningful outputs for stakeholders
• Advanced Excel skills to analyze, monitor, manage and predict impacts of business scenarios
• Initiate ad hoc queries to identify potential security issues within data sets
• Improve data capture and analysis processes to enhance analytical outcomes

Testing Activities (nice to have)

• Create Test Approach/Plan across functional and non-functional requirements and gain endorsement
• Collaborate with Project Manager to estimate, schedule and resource testing, identifying assumptions, dependencies, risks and issues

Qualifications

• Deep knowledge of the Australian Cyber Security Centre and NIST Framework
• Bachelor's degree in a Business or IT discipline
• Agile/Scrum master training
• Testing methodologies and planning
• Business Analysis Certification (BABOK – Level 3 CBAP)
• Advanced Excel and ability to interpret data and understand business issues and consequences

Seniority level

• Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Full-time

Job function

• Information Technology