Agile Business Analyst

Introduction
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Your Role and Responsibilities
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We are currently looking for an individual to fill the role of Agile Business Analyst - IT Transformation. The person identifies consults the business and provides services based on the needs of the organization's clients.
Having specific knowledge of the Energy and Utilities Industry, and deep expertise in corporate business processes and products, she/he will analyse and verify the requirements, business process decomposition and design. The successful candidate must have an experience in new business processes modelling.
In this role, the candidate will have the opportunity to interact directly with clients: the Agile Business Analyst will participate in conducting client workshops and interviews, Agile workshops facilitation and documentation of discussions.

The candidate should have worked in an Agile environment being versed in writing epics and decomposing epics into user stories. Additionally, desirable an experience as a system analyst.
Must have an outgoing personality to easily connect with Client stakeholders and IBM team. Knowledge of Agile approaches is mandatory, other software development methodologies is a plus. Should be familiar with key diagramming techniques (for example BPMN, UML), able to read application architecture diagrams. Should understand the current Asset Management planning and future models
Skills:

Environment: Professional knowledge related to Energy and Utilities Industry function/business unit and its processes.

Communication/Negotiation: Advise other professionals. Effectively utilize group dynamics. Negotiate to define approaches and goals. Lead or join development team in projects to deliver proposed system for client's business requirements.

Problem Solving: Recognize complex problems related to functional objectives. Analyse situations and implement solutions, or develop new system elements, procedures or processes. Creativity and judgment applied to developmental work on different projects within the business environment. Responsible for design application architecture and outline component model specification for team member to implement. Provide industry insights in requirement elicitation. Fast response to POC activities to early assess solution feasibility and risks of architecture design.

We are currently recruiting for a Business Analyst/Consultant, based in Perth. Your responsibilities in this role include:

• Detailed interrogation of client needs and gathering functional and non-functional requirements.
• Creating detailed user stories, epics and acceptance criteria
• Identifying, developing, and supporting business process change
• Participate in all Agile meetings such as sprint planning, stand-ups, demos, and retrospectives

• Work effectively individually and with team members toward customer satisfaction and success
• Participate in client meetings to communicate status or give demos in showcase workshops
• Responsible for providing the effort estimates in an agile environment;
• Be keenly aware of timelines and budgeting to deliver in a timely manner
• Ability to understand complex technical concepts and present them in simple terms to non-technical team members and clients

To ensure success in the role you will possess the following skills -

• At least 5 years' experience defining software requirements for complex products, either as a business analyst or equivalent Consultant role in Agile software delivery.
• At least 5 years' experience working with Agile practices and associated skills including user story writing
• At least 4 years' experience developing and delivering supporting business processes for Energy and Utilities industry, with a focus on Asset Management and Field Mobility and Scheduling solutions.
• At least 4 years' experience in a Business Analyst role as part of a System Integrations program with third party products and COTS (commercial-of-the-shelf) for Asset Management systems using Web Services or file based message exchange.
• At least 2 years' experience in designing management process, business process engineering, use case specification
• Excellent experience in modelling tools (Visio, Aris...)
• Excellent communication and writing skills (to attend client meetings and speak with clarity, write requirements in clear business terms, etc.)

Preferred Technical and Professional Experience

• At least 2 years' experience in Design Thinking techniques
• At least 1 year experience with working in an onshore/offshore model;

Applicants will be required to hold Australian PR or Citizenship.

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Required Technical and Professional Expertise
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Preferred Technical and Professional Expertise
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