Your new company

Our mission is to seek out areas of social need and policy failure and make transformational change using design and technology. We believe that government, organisations and businesses can be forces for good. But there’s a gap in their understanding of, and ability to meet, the expectations of those in need of positive change. Our job is to use design and technology to narrow the gap between those with the power and responsibility to make a positive change, and those who need it.

Your new role

As a Lead Technical Business Analyst, you play a leading role in delivering our projects successfully by bringing your deep expertise and experience to work with stakeholders and technical team members to map, analyse and document business processes and projects. You have strong strategic thinking and problem solving capabilities along with excellent written and verbal communication skills to effectively translate strategic business goals and requirements into a cohesive roadmap and vision for clients. Your job is also to provide expert guidance on tools, methodologies and frameworks as related to business analyst discipline. You are a true expert and the person within the business who has the answers, or knows where to find them, regarding all technical matters, and you can work independently on projects with little guidance.

You use this expertise for three key purposes; to independently deliver great work, to help improve the quality of the work we deliver, and to grow technical expertise by bringing in new ideas and approaches. While you do not manage people directly, you are responsible for reviewing their work and providing respectful feedback that improves the work itself, and contributes to their development.

A regular week for you at Portable might look like:

• Documenting and mapping the interactions between business processes, data and information for a large State Government department
• Researching the features of a range of new technologies to be recommended and implemented by our technical team
• Developing appropriate quality documentation of functional and non-functional requirements, technical specifications, test requirements & acceptance criteria, report specifications, feasibility & solution option papers
• Collaborating with our strategic design team to analyse current and future, information and technology requirements through business and infrastructure analysis, data investigation and solution design
• Conduct business process analysis and formulate new practices and processes as part of change management to facilitate the adoption of a strategic roadmap

In this role you’ll be expected to deliver the following results

• The work you independently deliver is of a consistently high quality, delivered on time and on budget and clearly demonstrates meeting the needs of users and our clients
• The work of your colleagues is of a high quality and their skills improved by reviewing their work in line with quality processes and standards
• The approach of your discipline is informed by industry best practice, which you proactively bring into the studio through presentations, guides, documentation and training and work with the leads to integrate it
• Discipline processes and practices are enhanced and supported by your contributions to regularly improve them
• Our proposals and project plan approaches are defined by you contributing your technical expertise
• Our Business Development, Account Management and Marketing communications all represent the technical practice of your discipline accurately

People working at Portable enjoy:

• A strong, vibrant culture, with agreed values and behaviours and opportunities to drive decision making
• A wellbeing strategy including events like meditation, pilates, regular social events and access to an Employee Assistance Program
• Agreed policies and procedures to ensure consistency and clarity in the way we work
• Support and coaching from experienced people managers
• Professional development opportunities
• Flexible work conditions, including the option to regularly work from home
• Generous parental leave options

Remuneration:

The indicative salary range for this role is between $115,000 - $140,000 (excluding super), depending on your level of experience.

Diversity at Portable:

At Portable, a diversity of experiences, identities and cultures is crucial to the inherent creativity, empathy and innovation required for us to deliver on our mission. We often tackle projects that allow us the space to build alternative approaches to the work and be informed by the communities we are in service of. This means that we are constantly questioning, updating and improving our approaches to project delivery.

We encourage people from diverse communities, particularly Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, to apply for this role and bring their unique professional, personal and cultural approaches to the wider practices within the studio. You will be welcomed and encouraged to grow and develop your professional experience and skills, supported by a team aspiring to do the same.

Please note all staff are currently working remotely but when restrictions change we will be based back at 5 Easey Street, Collingwood.