Your role
Working as part of the ITS PMO, the Business Analyst will work closely with business and technical stakeholders in defining scope and requirements, identifying business processes and helping design functional aspects of solutions in alignment with business needs. Taking on a proactive role in helping shape a project from inception through to completion, the Business Analyst will work closely with architects,
developers and
testers in ensuring that the delivered solution meets business needs.
The Business Analyst will become an expert in the business domain in which they operate and will provide consultative advice to stakeholders as required.
Reports to: Program Manager, IT Services
Key Accountabilities
- Identify and manage stakeholders, understand stakeholder interests and ensure that impacted stakeholders have a common understanding of new features or changes introduced by the solution.
- Define scope and high-level requirements for input into inception phase activities, e.g. business case development.
- Engage with stakeholders to understand user context, support follow-up IT enquiries.
Guide business functions in RMIT VN to follow RMIT IT policy/strategies.
- Gather, analyse and document detailed functional and non-functional requirements, ensuring that these are well understood by all impacted stakeholders and project team members.
- Gather, analyse and document functional specifications, comprising of use cases, user interface designs and data attributes, where required.
- Gather, analyse and document features, epics and user stories
- Define, analyse and document current and future state business processes using standards such as BPMN, identifying opportunities for process efficiency/improvements and incorporating these into the functional design of the solution to help achieve business goals.
- Perform requirements traceability of business analysis artefacts, ensuring that this is maintained throughout the project lifecycle.
- Facilitate workshops with business and technical stakeholders and perform walkthroughs with project team members.
- Support architecture, development and testing teams in requirements clarification throughout the project lifecycle and project team in project tasks and deliverables that relate to business analysis, e.g. analysis estimates, release planning or iteration planning.
- Keep up to date with BA developments and industry trends and actively shares knowledge with other BAs
