Who we are:
Urbis is people focussed, and we want the best for our team, our clients, and our communities. We are a community of passionate problem solvers, sought out by clients for our fresh thinking and approach to their city-shaping projects. Our mission is to help create meaningful, sustainable cities & communities.
Urbis is an employer of choice for gender equality (EOCGE), recognised through the Workplace Gender Equality Agency (WGEA), and active participants in the Federal Career Revive Initiative which supports the attraction and retention of women returning to work after a career break.
We pride ourselves in empowering our employees and supporting them to be the best they can be. Here you will make a tangible difference and positive impact, while gaining incredible industry experience and broad ranging exposure to the most exciting work.
Urbis, Shaping futures your way!
The Opportunity:
You will play a vital role in working with the Urbis team to shape cities and communities for a better future by helping build and manage data solutions that provide valuable data insights for our internal and external customers. Urbis' clients value a strong evidence-based approach, and you will work with our business units to leverage the rich data sets that we work with.
As a Business analyst, you will continually drive business improvements in Urbis & Cistri through the analysis of current state and bridging the gap between internal clients, technology enabled process change and solution delivery. This role will be a part Data & Applications team and be an integral part of understanding and designing future solutions with a desire to reduce technical debt and streamline our application stack, leveraging our Data Lakehouse and our Generative AI platform and our Generative AI platform.
You Will:
- Recognise gaps in processes, identifying innovation and optimisation opportunities and driving maturity in ways of working;
- Collation of business requirements through process mapping to articulate the ‘as is' and illustrate the ‘to be' future state process for a project;
- Work with the Change Management to help with change process activities;
- Effectively gather and document requirements, designing business processes, aligning solution to business objectives and supporting the delivery of the change through the project lifecycle;
- Ensure strong communication channels are established and maintained across project streams, with business subject matter experts and with the vendor and business technology delivery teams;
- Being involved in the design or modification of business systems or IT systems;
- Interact with the business stakeholders and subject matter experts to understand and document their problems and needs, conducting workshops and deep dives as required;
- Identify gaps and solving business problems, be part of designs technical solutions;
- Document the functional and, as needed technical design of the solutions;
- Interact with system architects and developers to ensure the system is properly implemented;
- Helping coordinate testing of solution system and working with Testing resources;
About you:
- Ability to lead and deliver technical, professional practice, or other improvement projects;
- Maintain and develop expert technical skills and product knowledge of relevance to company requirements;
- Process Mapping experience
- A strong understanding and application of key technology ‘best practice frameworks and principles' in relation to Change, Problem and Incident Management
- Can Identify opportunities to work across teams/business units to solve client issues;
- Successfully manage client priorities and expectations;
- Adapt when dealing with problems and changes to priorities;
- Challenge existing practices and/or viewpoints to achieve the best outcome;
- Engage with relevant professional and industry bodies to stay abreast of current practices and trends;
- Demonstrates technical excellence
- Flexible and innovative thinking when solving client problems;
- Brings a positive, encouraging attitude to own work and work relationships;
- Provides and receives feedback to support the development of team and self;
- Add value beyond clients' immediate requests;
- Follows up with clients during and after the delivery of services to ensure their needs have been met;
- Prioritise and manage the competing demands of multiple assignments and/or projects within agreed timeframe and budget; and
- Show commercial discipline and consistency through compliance with company policy and process and performance expectations.
Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree or Equivalent experience
- A minimum of 3-5 years' experience in a change, analyst, product manager or BA role.
- Prior experience in a startup or consultancy preferred
Why Urbis?
Urbis is committed to fostering an inclusive, flexible, and diverse work environment. We encourage applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander individuals and those returning to work after a career break. By joining us you will receive many benefits including:
- Salary continuance insurance, a generous parental leave policy, health & wellbeing programs and much more.
- Active mentorship by the best in the business, development of career goals and support in achieving them.
- Investment in ongoing training with all employees provided with an annual training budget.
- Monthly morning teas and regular social events to celebrate professional and personal wins.
Across all our sectors, you will play a part in shaping cities and communities. Bring your spark, and shape futures your way.
How to Apply?
If you are an enthusiastic candidate, with the desire to become part of a driven and highly professional team, click on “Apply for this job.”
Email us at careers@urbis.com.au if you have any questions.
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