Senior Business Analyst / Product Owner

Multiple contract opportunities for experienced Agile Business Analysts / Product Owners to join a well-known global organisation ASAP! Really great opportunities to get started in a role working across some new initiatives that are just starting to kick off.

Key Responsibilities (Business Analyst)

• Break down problems and develop effective requirements and acceptance criteria in collaboration with the team
• Application of agile analysis – epics, user stories, story decomposition, backlog refinement, elaboration, story mapping, prioritisation techniques
• Ensure that all solutions that are developed are value add driven and validating business benefits vs costs – assist with the prioritisation of true high value requirements
• Work with the Product Manager to create business cases that address real business problems
• Drive a shared understanding across business and technical stakeholders
• Create and maintain good working relationships with business and technical stakeholders
• Manage business stakeholder expectations through clear and accurate communication
• Prepare and present training materials on new and/or existing features as required
• Collaborate with Technology team members within your team and across other teams to deliver outstanding results for our business stakeholders

Key Responsibilities (Product Owner)

• Define user stories, ensuring user stories meet customer requirements
• Create and manage the product backlog
• Represent the team when engaging with the business or the Product Manager
• Actively involved in development stages
• Clear perspective on customer goals and objectives and communicate these with all the relevant stakeholders
• Adept and anticipate customer needs – especially from a journey lifecycle perspective
• Liaise and monitor each phase of the product development cycle – at each review represent the customer to make changes and improvements
• Identify the product requirements for the development team
• Complete responsibility and ownership of defining and prioritising the user requirements
• Communicates with the development team to explain product features to be implemented
• Maximise value add of products that are being developed
• Collaborate and work closely with various stakeholders including but not limited to customers, business leaders, development teams, iteration managers, and other stakeholders

Skills and Experience Required:

Previous experience in large, enterprise level environments as a dedicated Business Analyst.  In addition, you will have:

• Knowledge of Lean, Agile frameworks (SAFe, Kanban, Scrum, Inception phase) and change management
• High level of flexibility with a strong ability to lead others successfully through cultural, process, system and transformational change
• Strong planning, organisation, decision making and time management skills
• Able to create and support a safe to fail environment
• Strong ability to influence change at all levels of the organisation

For a confidential discussion, or for more information, please contact Caitlin Botsford on 0478 707 711 or caitlin@emanatetechnology.com.au.