Business Analyst - SmartPayroll
Datacom, New Zealand
Job Description
Our purpose
Here at Datacom we connect people and technology in order to solve challenges, create opportunities and discover new possibilities for the communities we live in
The Nitty Gritty
We have over 6,200 people across our global offices, and generate an annual revenue of over $1.2 billion, this makes us one of Australasia’s largest professional IT services companies. We have extensive expertise in operating data centres, providing IT services, software engineering and application management, as well as payroll and customer service design and operations. With this comes a long list of significant clients Datacom is committed to hiring, developing and promoting the best talent from a diverse range of backgrounds. We are local at heart, yet world-class in capability.
About the Role
As a Business Analyst, you are responsible for describing the detailed functional requirements (typically Process Maps, User Stories, and example scenarios/data) that comprise features on the Product Manager’s overall application domain roadmap.
You will be the person in the team who will gain the most familiarity with our product and requirements provided by the Product Mangers. You will work with the domain team to design how the application will work to ensure functional requirements are met. The design needs to be aligned to published SmartPayroll design principles.
What you’ll bring
- Strong analysis skills to review and optimise processes for significant improvements in efficiency
- High quality documentation and deep understanding of product capability
- Strong understanding of either, governance, or service acceptance functions as they relate to service providers
- Experience working as a Business Analyst in an Agile Team
Responsibilities
- Work closely with the Product Manager to understand the vision for their area / product domain
- Lead the Analysis and Design, arrange and lead any communication, run meetings and workshops to define, design, estimate, and schedule the ’development’ tasks required to deliver the required functionality
- Produce drafts of the Design documents, lead/manage the review of those documents with the Product Manager and domain team(s) to ensure each team member has sufficient understanding of the feature and its purpose
- Work closely with the Platform Architect to ensure they have sufficient understanding of the functional requirements in order to design the System Architecture
- Ensure all reviews required are completed at the required checkpoints
- Resolve issues raised by developers, and testers during the Development and Testing stages, in relation to specification questions and ambiguities, communicating with clients wherever necessary
Why you want to join us
At Datacom we believe that doing good, is good for business. We’ve maintained our local family feel whilst expanding globally, across Australia, ASIA, US and the UK. Our brand and reputation depend on ‘proving the promise’ and we aspire to be the trusted advisor for our customers across Government and the private sector from enterprise scale to regional business. We offer our staff a competitive salary package, fantastic perks and benefits like healthcare, life insurance, discounts at local retailers and a supportive, flexible working environment. If you want to join a company making a difference, apply now!