Specialist Integration Business Analyst

• Information Technology Services - IT Infrastructure Operations

• Broaden your career within one of QLD’s largest employers 

• Play a lead role in the project delivery of sophisticated solutions

• Achieve a work-life balance with 36.25 hours/wk, purchased leave, WFH + more 

• Based at our vibrant St Lucia campus

About UQ

As part of the UQ community, you will have the opportunity to work alongside the brightest minds, who have joined us from all over the world.

Everyone here has a role to play. As a member of our professional staff cohort, you will be actively involved in working towards our vision of a better world. By supporting the academic endeavour across teaching, research, and the student life, you will have the opportunity to contribute to activities that have a lasting impact on our community.

Join a community where excellence is at the core of our culture, contributions are valued and a range of benefits and rewards are available, such as:

• 26 weeks paid parental leave or 14 weeks paid primary caregiver leave

• 17% superannuation contributions

• 17.5% annual leave loading

• Health and wellness discounts – fitness passport access, free yearly flu vaccinations, discounted health insurance, and access to our Employee Assistance Program for staff and their immediate family

• On campus childcare options

• Cheap parking (from just $5.75 a day)

• Salary packaging options

About This Opportunity 

As a Specialist Integration Business Analyst, you will use your technical Business Analyst skills to play a lead role in projects in order to deliver sophisticated solutions to satisfy complex integration and interoperability initiatives.

The position provides a high level of support for solution architecture, analysis, detailed design, support, and system administration for key integration focussed information technology platforms within the University.

Key responsibilities will include: 

• Leading and performing analysis, design, testing and operations of the systems-to-system interfaces, data flows, and API implementations.

• Collaborating with internal and external support-teams on incidents involving integration to ensure timely resolution and recovery and ensuring that preventative measures are taken to avoid recurrence.

• Managing team members to meet day-to-day operational and project management objectives.

• Consulting and advising on technical and governance aspects of integration patterns, technologies, platforms, and services to a range of stakeholders. 

• Assisting the unit manager in matters of budget preparation, development and improvement of team practices and processes, preparation of service level agreements and coordinating SLA activities, management of the unit, and strategic and long-term planning

• Investigating, evaluating, and reporting on new equipment, systems, processes, patterns, and standards

• Contributing to the establishment of governance frameworks, re-usable patterns and best practices for operational activities for integration platforms and integration implementations.

This is a full-time (100%), fixed-term position through to May 2025.

At HEW level 8, the full-time equivalent base salary will be in the range $108,975 - $122,176, plus a generous super allowance of up to 17%. The total FTE package will be up to $127,500 - $142,946 annually.  As these roles are covered by an Enterprise Agreement, you will also receive regular remuneration increases in line with the Enterprise Agreement.

About You  

Our ideal candidate will be self-motivated and able to work constructively, and in an organised and methodical way, to deliver outcomes that meet organisational objectives with limited guidance in a team environment. Further criteria include:

• Demonstrated ability to lead projects, project teams and budgets effectively in the delivery of quality IT services to meet diverse and complex client requirements in a timely and cost-effective manner, including experience in providing estimates to clients and technical leadership and mentoring to developers, systems analysts, or technical engineers.

• Strong analytical skills to assess problems and propose appropriate solutions, including those that integrate a range of appropriate processes, systems, data, and technologies.

• Demonstrated ability to architect, analyse, design, implement, test, and operate effective integration solutions.

• Experience with agile project management methodologies, including SCRUM.

• Well-developed interpersonal skills (including written and verbal communication) and the ability to liaise and establish collaborative relationships with colleagues, clients, and external agencies at all levels to achieve quality outcomes and deliver effective reusable integration artefacts, such as API's.

In addition, the following mandatory requirements apply:

• Work Rights: You must have unrestricted work rights in Australia for the duration of this appointment to apply. Visa sponsorship is not available for this appointment. 

• Background Checks: All final applicants for this position may be asked to consent to a criminal record and education check. Please note that people with criminal records are not automatically barred from applying for this position. Each application will be considered on its merits. 

For more information about this opportunity, please contact Ms Christine Kusher via [email protected] . For application queries, please contact [email protected] stating the job reference number (below) in the subject line. 
 

All applicants must upload the following documents in order for your application to be considered:

• Cover letter addressing the ‘About You’ section  

• Resume 

Other Information 

At UQ we know that our greatest strengths come from our diverse mix of colleagues, this is reflected in our ongoing commitment to creating an environment focused on equity, diversity and inclusion .  We ensure that we are always attracting, retaining and promoting colleagues who are representative of the diversity in the broader community, whether that be gender identity , LGBTQIA+ , cultural and/or linguistic , Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander peoples , or people with a disability . Accessibility requirements and/or adjustments can be directed to [email protected] .

If you are a current employee (including casual staff and HDR scholars) or hold an unpaid/affiliate appointment, please login to your staff Workday account and visit the internal careers board to apply for this opportunity. Please do NOT apply via the external job board.

Applications close 6 May 2024 at 11.00pm AEST (Job Reference Number - R-37793).