Digital Business Analyst

at  AKQA

At AKQA, our Project Management Office sets the approach and standard for project delivery and governance, ensuring that clients maximise their return on investment. Responsible for team performance, they provide team members with the tools, support and training essential to delivering the most effective result possible.
Our Digital Business Analysts are responsible for setting up and leading the requirements process within a project including requirement workshops, writing recommendations, and collecting documentation throughout the project. They work closely with clients, our project management office and our technical development and user experience teams.
At AKQA, you’ll work in an innovative and inclusive culture surrounded by some of the brightest minds in their fields. You’ll also have the opportunity to learn and grow within a creative and technically advanced team, and have access to ongoing personal and professional development. This role can be based in either our Melbourne or Sydney studio. We work in a hybrid WFH model, with Mondays, Tuesdays and Thursdays based in the studio.

• Identify product requirements based on business and user requirements.
• Define project scope and outline functional and non-functional requirements.
• Trace requirements from identification through to implementation, and challenge client requirements when necessary.
• Demonstrated experience decomposing and writing user stories in collaboration with team members and stakeholders.
• Create and manage the product backlog, and work with clients to define appropriate releases.
• Clearly articulate a product’s features, functionality and behaviour.
• Support development teams by providing clarifications to requirements and design.
• Understand analysis of the as-is and to-be processes.
• Analyse and map business processes, and design ways to improve them.
• Analyse cost versus benefit and assist in development of business cases.
• Develop benefit review plans to map project objectives to benefits and identify measures for project success.
• Understanding of agile ways of working (i.e Scrum).
• Strong understanding of web apps, APIs and microservices architectures.