Associate Business Analyst - Data Science & AI

About the role

A Federal Government client is seeking an Associate Business Analyst to support data science, machine learning and artificial intelligence initiatives on a 12-month contract, with a possible 12-month extension. The role is based in Melbourne and involves working with stakeholders and technical teams to turn business needs into clear requirements and to support delivery and governance.

Key responsibilities

• Elicit requirements through interviews, workshops, document analysis and observation, and turn them into functional and non-functional requirements, user stories, acceptance criteria, process maps and traceability artefacts.
• Work with stakeholders and technical teams to define business problems, users, outcomes, constraints, dependencies, success measures and expected benefits.
• Support delivery planning, prioritisation, backlog refinement, dependency management, status reporting and the coordination of actions, decisions, risks and issues.
• Help run sprint planning, daily stand-ups, showcases, retrospectives and other delivery ceremonies.
• Maintain governance and assurance documentation such as business cases, AI impact assessments, risk and issue records, pilot plans, evaluation documentation and committee papers.
• Build relationships across business, data science, technology, privacy, legal, security, risk and responsible AI functions, and facilitate workshops for technical and non-technical audiences.
• Provide coordination and administrative support, including meeting coordination, agenda and paper preparation, correspondence, record keeping and routine reporting.

Required profile

• Tertiary qualification in business analysis, business, information technology, project management, data or a related discipline, or equivalent experience.
• Experience gathering, documenting and managing requirements in a complex delivery environment.
• Experience facilitating workshops and turning business problems into process maps, user stories and acceptance criteria.
• Experience supporting agile or iterative delivery, including sprint ceremonies, backlog refinement, risks, issues, dependencies and status reporting.
• Experience preparing business cases, briefs, impact assessments or similar decision-support documents for operational and executive audiences.
• Australian citizenship and the ability to obtain Baseline security clearance.