Technical Business Analyst

The Opportunity

At APA, our purpose is simple: to strengthen communities through responsible energy.

We now have an exciting opportunity available for a Technical Business Analyst in Brisbane on a 14 Months fixed term basis.

Reporting to the Energy Components Development Team Lead and responsible for technical requirement gathering and documenting, translation of these to a detailed design, assisting developers in ensuring the solution meets the business requirements, implementing the technical solution development, and technical support to the BAU handover practices.

The location for this role is flexible and hybrid; we will consider locations all over Australia and/or home office. We will also consider job share arrangements.

Key Responsibilities

Work closely with PMO colleagues, IT staff and other stakeholders throughout the system development lifecycle to clarify, refine, and specify business/technical requirements, evaluate potential solutions, and identify value outcomes for stakeholders

• Facilitates the delivery and supports a team that designs, develops, and tests complex technology solutions for APA's highly customised Energy Component's hydrocarbon accounting environment
• Technical guidance with the development and maturing tools that support the preparation of designs, estimates and planning for any enhancement or development delivered by Grid Program
• Develop and document AS-IS / TO-BE business processes, configuration scripts, and other associated functional specifications from end user requirements, as well as system documentation for change requests
• Supports development aspects including reports, interfaces, conversion programs, database design and creation, enhancements
• Identifying and implementing continuous improvement and optimisation strategies related to business and technical analysis practices

Your background

• Proactively maintaining a level of professional and technical expertise commensurate with the position
• Providing quality business/technical analysis for a team that provides design and development services across energy components and integration technologies.
• Subject Matter Expert level experience in supporting the development of in Energy Components
• Working knowledge of gas transmission-related products and services
• Ability to act as technical SME for a team that provides design and development services across energy components and integration technologies
• Working knowledge of the processes and practices that support IT Service Management.
• Experience working with Project Delivery frameworks / methodologies, preferably including Agile and DevOps work practices
• Quality communication skills and the emotional intelligence to negotiate, persuade and influence internal and external stakeholders
• Good knowledge and hands on experience on Oracle PL/SQL.

About the Team

Technology underpins everything we do at APA from helping connect millions of Australians to essential energy sources every day to achieving our net zero ambition - and the capability for our people to make this happen.

To help APA power ahead, the Technology teams is focused on enhancing APAs technology offering, providing innovative and progressive technology - enabling APA to be world class in energy solutions.

This is an exciting time for the team, we need people who are courageous, nimble, and ready to make an impact - change makers and risk takers.

Working at APA

At APA we're committed to fostering a safe and inclusive workplace where you can achieve your best. We'll provide you with access to targeted career development programs, competitive remuneration, employee benefits, flexible working arrangements, and wellbeing programs. We also have an inclusive parental leave policy providing 18 weeks leave including superannuation to support parents at work and in life.

We employee more than 2900 people across Australia and are committed to creating a diverse and inclusive culture, where everyone feels safe, valued, and trusted to do their best every day.

We are APA

APA Group is a leading Australian energy infrastructure business.

We proudly own, operate and manage a diverse $27 billion portfolio of gas, electricity, solar and wind assets which deliver essential services to communities and customers across Australia.
And we own over 15,000 kilometres of gas pipelines which deliver energy to families and industry across every corner of Australia.

As the partner of choice in delivering infrastructure solutions for the energy transition, we're focused on bundled remote grid energy solutions, electricity and gas transmission, and future energy, including hydrogen and carbon capture and storage.

Our customer centric approach means we understand our customers and their businesses offering reliable, innovative, and cost-effective energy solutions that support their decarbonisation ambitions.

We are committed to delivering infrastructure solutions for Australia's energy transition and supporting the decarbonisation ambitions of our customers.
We prioritise sustainable outcomes so that APA, our people, customers, and communities can thrive - now and in the future.

Join our team and be part of Australia's energy transition!

We'd love to hear from you.

APA is an equal-opportunity employer. The safety, health and wellbeing our people, community and environment a priority. We embrace diversity in our people to ensure our workforce is representative of the communities that we operate in.

Applicants must be eligible to work in Australia to be considered.

This vacancy works with critical APA data, systems or infrastructure and candidates are subject to background vetting(including Police checks) before & during employment.

Role closes on Friday 30 August 2024. Role Reference number JR620.

PD is available on request by emailing [email protected] quoting reference number above.

We will contact successful candidates after the closing date.