Posted 9th April

Cathara Consulting is an Australian-based Consulting firm specialising in Business Transformations, Technology Consulting & Resourcing Services.

Our Darwin based client requires a Technical Business Analyst to work within the ICT projects space. This will be an initial 12 month contract, with strong extension options.

You must be willing to relocate to Darwin and remain there for the duration of the contract. No remote working options are available for this opportunity.

The role

You will be working on a large multi-year program to uplift our clients ICT environment to support the implementation of a new solution including the consolidation of data and reporting facilities from several systems.

Key Duties and Responsibilities

• Facilitate workshops, interviews and focus groups to elicit requirements from project stakeholders, including the software vendor.

• Responsible for understanding business needs, collecting data, delivering analysis and identifying, evaluating and recommending solution options and preparation of quality evidence-based written reports and other documents, including future state data and process flow maps.

• Develop standardised and consistent technical specification documents for technical domains, including reporting, data migration, and system integrations that supports effective quality assurance and testing.

• Establish information management business and functional requirements.

• Conduct walkthroughs to validate and obtain approval of business analysis outputs and work packages.

• Work closely with project / business stakeholders and vendor to communicate technical requirements, impacts, technical deliverables, vendor related dependencies ensure alignment with business objectives.

• Work with solution architects, technical leads, developers and vendors to develop customer centric solutions.

• Analyse new source systems and reference data needed for codification and assist with development and configuration activities.

• Assist in the implementation of best practices around the Development, Process, and System Integration and Testing.

• Collaborate with the testing team to design and implement validation processes that ensure technical requirements are met.

Essential Skills and Experience

• Hands on experience in technical analysis and capturing clear technical specifications for data, integrations, reporting, and system configuration.

• Strong analytical skills with the ability to collect, organise, analyse and disseminate significant amounts of information across project teams and stakeholders with attention to detail and accuracy.

• Experience in large transformational project/program management within established structures and the ability to work to tight deadlines and competing priorities.

• Experience communicating with a wide range of stakeholders including project team members, technical staff, subject matter experts, vendors and executive.

• Vendor liaison skills to effectively communicate between internal teams and vendor representatives, manage dependencies, and interpret vendor solution capabilities.

• Data and integration expertise, including understanding data structures, mappings, migration, APIs, and interactions across legacy and vendor systems.

• Impact analysis and problem solving to assess technical impacts across multiple systems, identify gaps, risks, and solution options, and ensure alignment with business needs.

• Knowledge of Microsoft SQL server development and experience using T-SQL, extract-transform-load (ETL) processes, data quality analysis and associated tools such as SSIS and Microsoft Data Quality Services.

• Provide BA and system support, relevant to provision of requirements support and clarification to design, build, test, implementation and Business As Usual support activities.

Desirable Skills and Experience

• Hands on experience working with systems replacement project with COTS product.

• Exposure to release management i.e. build upgrades, change requests, impact assessment, and release processes, ensuring alignment with technical deliveries.

• Knowledge of data architecture / design concepts and techniques.

• Experience in an education-IT-related field, project or software or other relevant education subject-matter knowledge.

• Tertiary qualifications in information technology, computer science or software engineering or Business Analysis Certification, or equivalent.

• Experience using Atlassian tools such as Jira and Confluence.
  
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