Welcome to CT, the ultimate destination for tech enthusiasts! We're not just any workplace, we've been certified as a Great Place to Work and ranked 23rd in Australia's Best Workplaces 2022, and now we've been rated as the coolest Best Place to Work in Tech 2023! With a team of over 260 tech wizards, we're constantly pushing the boundaries and working at the forefront of the tech industry in Australia and NZ.

Our CEO, Adam Centorrino, is dedicated to customer service, having won the Customer Service Executive of the Year award twice, and we've also won an incredible 10 consecutive Australian Service Excellence Awards! We're not just focused on our customers, we prioritise our employees too. With flexible work culture, growth opportunities, wellness benefits, and an inclusive workplace culture, we're dedicated to making sure our team members are happy.

Now, enough about us – let's talk about you. We're expanding our dream team, and we're on the hunt for a key role to join our Professional Services Team.

Here’s what you’ll be doing:

The Department of Parliamentary Services (DPS) is seeking the services of multiple highly skilled Business Analysts with significant experience leading business analysis activities.  

The successful candidates will work with business subject matter experts (SME’s) to elicit business requirements for several initiatives underway within Australian Parliament House (APH).

To be successful in this role candidates will need to have:

• A minimum of 7+ years’ experience as a Business Analyst.
• Have experience working with both Agile and Waterfall delivery approaches.
• Have experience working in software development teams and System Development Lifecycle (SDLC).
• Hold strong stakeholder management and interpersonal skills.
• Excellent communication, workshop facilitation and writing skills.

To deliver on this program of work, the Business Analyst will be required to:

• Lead a range of business and technical stakeholder engagements to collect, analyse and define business requirements across the Parliamentary departments.
• Define user stories, acceptance criteria and create wireframes where necessary.
• Define the current state and future state for new business processes and articulate options for implementation.
• Collaborate with other sections across the Information Services Division to support the design and development of solutions to meet the requirements of Parliamentary departments. 

• Work with the delivery team to inform development and testing effort.
• Undertake other related activities to support successful delivery as required.

Estimated start date

Monday, 29 January 2024

Initial contract duration

12 months

Extension term

12 months

Number of extensions

2

Location of work

ACT

Working arrangements

This role is based in Barton, Canberra. Flexible working arrangements are available with a mix of work from home and office based work with at least 2 days in the office required. Work from home days will need to be tailored to work around business engagement and workshops.

Security clearance

Must have Baseline

Security Clearance: Must have active baseline clearance.

Candidates must limit their selection criteria responses to maximum of 2 pages Cover Letter, plus a resume.

Essential criteria

1. Demonstrated skills and experience leading complex business analysis activities, while managing business and technology change in an agile environment.

2. Highly developed verbal, written and presentation skills including the ability to develop complex business requirements, processes and SOPs material, with strong attention to detail, and present analysis and recommendations clearly and effectively to diverse stakeholder groups.

3. Robust stakeholder management and negotiation skills, with the ability to engage at all levels of an organisation with both business and technical stakeholders, and develop positive, effective relationships.

4. Extensive experience and skills in using formal business analysis techniques and methods in preparing and presenting analysis artefacts including but not limited to business requirements, standard operating materials, user stories, use cases, process maps (BPMN) and requirements specifications.

5. Demonstrated track record of professionalism, pragmatism, resilience, and personal integrity.

Our company is more than just a workplace, it's a hub of inspiration and creativity where employees love to work! Here's why:

• We offer a wealth of training and development opportunities to help you enhance your skills and achieve your career goals, including a diverse range of courses, certifications, and personalised coaching.
• We care about your physical and mental wellbeing, which is why we offer wellbeing subsidies that provide discounts on gym, yoga, and Pilates memberships.
• We understand that technology is key to your success, which is why we offer cost-price tech discounts so you can stay up-to-date with the latest trends.

• We believe in working hard and playing hard, and foster team bonding through a variety of events that help you connect with your colleagues outside of work.
• We believe in your potential and offer a personalised career and learning plan tailored to your unique goals and aspirations, committed to supporting you in becoming the best version of yourself.
• We celebrate diversity and inclusivity, and prioritise health, wellbeing, and fun in our workplace culture.

When you join Centorrino Technologies, you know you are joining an organisation that is driven by our values and innovation. We are proud to be an equal opportunity employer, and are committed to building a diverse and inclusive workplace where we embrace our individual talents, and our differences. We encourage applications from people of all ages, disabilities, LGBTQI, First Nations people and people from culturally diverse backgrounds.

Our Purpose

Here at Datacom we connect people and technology in order to solve challenges, create opportunities and discover new possibilities for the communities we live in.

About The Role

This is an excellent opportunity not to be missed! You will be joining a fantastic Software Asset Management team in our extensive Service Operations business. The SAM team support each other and work collaboratively across a range of managed and project services. This is a chance to make your mark in a business with strong people and customer focus.

This role is preferably located in Canberra, although remote work is supported, and is ideal for someone who is experienced in Software Asset Management and Software Licensing and keen to develop a career with loads variety and opportunity.

If you already have Baseline Security Clearance this will be advantageous, it is required.

What You’ll Bring

We’re looking for a proactive, independent, enthusiastic team member who’s interested in being part of a larger group delivering a high quality and complex service to our customers. You’ll bring expertise developed over 3+ years in a Software Asset Management, IT Asset Management, or Licensing Sales, as you will be supporting the delivery of the Software Asset Management (SAM) service for a large Federal Government account.

Your ability to work with other members of the client management team to develop and deliver quality solutions for our customer is critical to the success of our service.

As part of the role you will provide quality customer service enhancements in optimising the SAM Service, planning the service implementation, championing the delivery of the service and processes, and verification and continued maintenance of the SAM Service.

What You’ll Do

In this role you will work collaboratively with other Software Asset Management (SAM) team members, Software Licensing Consultants, and Service Delivery Managers. Essentially, the Software Asset Manager will:

• Manage the relationship with key Customer stakeholders and Datacom Managed Services.
• Act as SAM Subject Matter Expert for the account.
• Ensure effective and smooth delivery of our customer’s SAM services.
• Contribute to the achievement of the outcomes of the contract.
• Delivery and support the Business Development Process.
• Ensure that SAM plans, processes and procedures are delivered incorporating good practise methodologies, accurately documented, successfully implemented, appropriately communicated to customer’s stakeholders, and provide continuous SAM Improvement with our services for our customers.
• You are a key contributor to the management of the Software Asset Lifecycle for our customer. This includes identifying the software inventory, capturing license entitlements, performing ongoing software compliance checks, and remediation as appropriate.
• Manage, maintain, and facilitate the renewal of software maintenance by validating the renewal details to ensure the information is correct and valid and also update the Software Asset Register/Technology with the new licensing details.
• Facilitate software procurement for the account including the tasks of retrieving quotes from software vendors or Datacom’s internal procurement team, approval from the business and facilitating the procurement and associated software lifecycle tasks.
• Review current software Terms and Conditions, License Agreements, and License Contracts to ensure that the account is not exposed to any breaches or risks.
• Provide quality customer service through adherence to Datacom’s Asset Management service delivery methodology and processes.
• Experience in using SAM technologies and their capabilities, in particular, Flexera FlexNet Manager Suite and/or Snow License Manager. You will be responsible for monitoring the health of the SAM technology and will proactively work with technical teams to ensure the technology is maintained to acceptable standards.
• Experience with ITSM tools like Cherwell or Service Now will be advantageous.
• Interpret data outputs from the SAM technologies and other tools to provide accurate and timely reporting.
• Be able to follow documented procedures to support the deliver of consistent services.
• Perform license reclamation activity and record cost avoidance.
• Propose remediation and optimisation activities that may result in reduced compliance risk and/or financial savings and cost avoidance.
• Liaise with service management, and customer teams to define, optimise, and develop SAM standards, processes, procedures, plans and controls to ensure appropriate service asset information is recorded and maintained.
• Work collaboratively with a larger SAM team in delivering SAM Services as well as autonomously within your dedicated account.

You must hold Australian Citizenship as a Baseline Security Clearance is required, and it will be advantageous if you already have one.

Culture and Benefits

Datacom is ones of Australia and New Zealand’s largest suppliers of Information Technology professional services. As an ANZ company, we have managed to maintain a dynamic, agile, small business feel that is often diluted in larger organisations of our size. It's our people that give Datacom its unique culture and energy that you can feel from the moment you meet with us.

At Datacom you'll be recognised and valued for your contributions. We're growing year on year and can provide stability, career opportunity and a collegial, agile, flat-structured environment that empowers people and promotes autonomy. We care about our people and provide a range of perks such as social events, chill-out spaces, remote working, flexi-hours and professional development courses to name a few. We operate at the leading edge of technology to help ANZ’s largest enterprise organisations explore possibilities and solve their greatest challenges, so you will never run out of interesting new challenges and opportunities.

If you would like to know more and this sounds like you. Please apply online today!