Join Simple Machines and be part of our mission to help clients unlock the full potential of their data through the creation of cutting-edge business driven data platforms and software solutions. As we continue to expand our team across Australia and New Zealand, we are seeking a talented Technical Business Analysis who is unafraid to challenge the status quo and push boundaries.

About You

We are looking for a consultant-minded individual who is passionate about working closely with clients to solve complex problems and lead them on a journey from discovery to technical implementation. Your skillset will extend to senior stakeholder management, where you engage with executives and key decision-makers within client organisations. You have a knack for understanding client needs and delivering market-leading solutions.

Have a background in Business Analysis | Technology Consulting | Software Development

You will love and excel in this role if you:

• Thrive in complex business and technology environments; at the boundary between the technical and business worlds, bridging the gap to ensure seamless communication and collaboration
• Are an exceptional communicator and relationship-builder who fosters strong partnership with client and third party teams
• Are comfortable harmonising multiple groups of stakeholders with different priorities and competing needs
• Bring a customer mindset with the ability to align our solutions with the client’s  business goals
• Have a refined understanding of how modern software is built and delivered (tools, methodologies, roles, common challenges etc.)
• Demonstrate knowledge of different methods and tools that help you to perform analysis, testing, product management and delivery in a range of environments
• Are a proactive person who knows what needs to be done, how to approach it, and how to influence others to move things forward
• Are a analytical powerhouse and strategic thinker who can drive the success of our data-driven initiatives, making a significant impact on our clients' businesses
• Are ambitious and excited about the prospect of joining a small, close-knit team of experts and helping it to grow

The Exciting Part

Simple Machines is not your average consultancy or software engineering firm. Our team is comprised of inspiring technical leaders in Data Engineering, Machine Learning, and Artificial Intelligence. Our projects are data-focused and drive impactful business outcomes.

About the Role

We are looking for someone to join our close-knit team of experts in Sydney to help deliver our client engagements as we scale our ANZ business.

If you are passionate about turning data into valuable insights, possess a keen understanding of both business and technology, and excel in senior stakeholder management, then this is the perfect opportunity for you.

Here’s a brief overview of the role’s responsibilities:

Coalesce between business and engineering:

• Facilitate discussions and extract explicit and implicit institutional knowledge to inform technical requirements, acceptance criteria, feature overviews, test cases and other artefacts for the team to work from.
• Document and present information in ways that are accessible to multiple customer groups with varied context and background.

Drive the team’s direction.

• Understand business goals and persuade the client and the SM team on what should be done and why.
• Clearly articulate how our team’s work creates value for our clients.

Increase the team’s speed.

• Enable decision making through communication of relevant information and context in a digestible format.
• Anticipate dependencies and remove impediments to the team’s progress.

Assure the team’s focus.

• Protect the engineering team from day to day ‘noise’.
• Embed and optimise processes to handle our scope of work and new demand.

Assure SM’s position with the client.

• Build and nurture relationships with clients at all levels, building your position as a trusted advisor for our clients.
• Help to manage SM’s delivery risk through proactively identifying, escalating and managing risks.

Working at Simple Machines

We’re looking for someone who’s as passionate as we are about building a world-class technology company specialising in engineering for data.

Just some of the benefits of working with Simple Machines include:

• Flexible working: Want to work from home or leave early to pick up the kids? Need to start early some days, later on others? No problem!
• Generous parental leave: Three months’ fully paid primary carer leave and one month fully paid secondary carer leave, subject to a minimum 12 month tenure
• Learning and development: We all love continually learning and have a generous budget for you to upskill, join conferences, get certified and qualified
• Lunch is on us. Always! We happily supply lunch at each of our office locations every Monday, Wednesday and Friday.

About us

blueAPACHE is an Australian owned award-winning Managed Service Provider, recognised for the 4th year running, as Mid-Market Partner of the Year at the ARN Innovation Awards.

We pride ourselves on being a genuinely great place to work, with a vibrant culture, clear vision, and strong leadership. When joining blueAPACHE, you are joining an organisation that is driven by our core values of employee and customer experience. 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.

Goals:

We have an exciting hybrid opportunity for an enthusiastic and ambitious Sales Support Officer to join our Sales Team!

The successful candidate will have a sales background and enjoy working in a fast paced, corporate environment.

The Sales Support officer is a member of the Sales team and plays a key role in to assist internal and external clients within the blueAPACHE account base for run-rate device and licensing sales.

• 1-2 years previous experience in quoting and or customer experience in technology or related industry
• You have a keen interest in technology and can conceptualise consumption models. •
• The ability to thrive in an environment where you are continually learning.
• High attention to detail and commercial acumen
• Dedicated and able to work to deadlines.
• Ownership and follow up skills.
• You can multi-task and work under pressure.
• Aptitude for sales, you are engaging, work part of a team and autonomously.
• Your written and verbal communication is clear, concise, and confident.
• Strong communication and negotiation skills.
• A customer centric mindset.
• Enjoy building positive relationships with customers

Responsibilities:

• Provide outstanding customer service and sales support to our customers and Tier 1 (Enterprise) sales team.
• Manage sales calls, provide product support including recommendations, orders status updates and manage order deliverables.
• Raise deal registrations, work with distributors and vendors on special pricing requests.
• Work with sales team to develop further opportunities.
• Work with sales specialist to facilitate ongoing run-rate transactions.
• Maintain product knowledge across key vendors and participate in ongoing training.
• Assist and deal with Enterprise clients.
• Asist BDM’s and Generate quotes.
• Build and maintain relationships with vendors and distributors.
• Build and maintain relationships with internal sales teams and key contacts within the BA client base.
• Manage margin within the Distributor base and negotiate buy prices with the distributors.

blueAPACHE continues to grow alongside some of Australia’s leading midmarket businesses, our valued clients. We continue to stay abreast of current technologies to maintain our competitive advantage, offering the opportunity to continually expand your technical expertise and provide an uncompressing offering to our clients. We recognise our people are our most significant differentiator.

• We offer options for you to interview virtually.
• blueAPACHE offers an environment to make a real difference, develop careers within a supportive and rewarding environment.
• Flexibility to work the way that aligns with our values of employee and customer experience, including hybrid/work from home model.
• Regular social events and an awesome culture – work with a team of experts in their field
• Ongoing training and development including paid certifications.
• Quality hardware and laptop provided.
• Employee referral programs - once you are in and you are loving it - you can refer a friend and get paid for it!

*** Please note, all offers of employment at blueAPACHE are subject to police clearance checks.

First Focus is Australia's best mid-market Managed Service Provider, bar none. We are growing fast and now have over 270 staff across Australia, New Zealand, Philippines, South Africa and Ireland. We are a stable and very focused company, with over 15 years of consistent growth and we're continuing to win new clients and evolve our solutions.

We pride ourselves on being a genuinely great place to work, with a dynamic culture, clear vision and strong leadership. We only hire the best people and are a looking for an exceptional IT professional with a deep understanding of both Managed Services and the needs of mid-tier clients.

We are looking for the best MSP-specialised Senior Service Desk professional in Australia. Why would such an amazing person consider coming to First Focus? What makes First Focus better than where you are today?

• We understand the challenges of Service Desk specialists and work with you and our clients to make sure you still get the time and the opportunity to train and develop
• We seek the best clients for our team to work with as well as the best people to support our clients
• We know that great Service Desk professionals value different things to field support (for example) - daily variety, great customer relationships and new challenges
• We find and retain the best. Best Service Desk, best Managers, best Project Engineers, best team!

Duties

• Providing remote service desk support to a variety of environments from 10 - 500 users, as a point of escalation and SME
• Supporting a combination of servers, desktops and applications within Microsoft Azure, AD and M365 environments
• Delivering the support of Azure, VMWare and Citrix cloud infrastructure
• Performing a wide variety of support across many technologies
• Occasional project team work to deploy solutions for customers
• Working with highly experienced solutions experts to maintain best practice environments

Requirements

• Advanced understanding of end user support and Active Directory
• Comprehensive knowledge of Windows Server, Azure and Exchange
• Genuine exposure across technical infrastructure from desktop to firewall, including LAN & WAN networking
• An understanding of ticketing systems and customer service principles

Benefits

First Focus’ values are based around keeping everyone informed, aligned, supported, and rewarding performance. Some examples of this include:

• Compelling package that includes salary, training and flexible arrangements
• All employees have free access to Uprise, including 1:1 coaching sessions from qualified psychologists or counsellors
• First Focus understands the importance of flexibility for a satisfying work-life balance, which is why we offer hybrid working arrangements
• ‘Never Stop Growing’ is deeply imbedded in our DNA - we offer up to 10 paid training days a year and support employees towards certifications and qualifications - we will not only pay for the exam but will also give you a pay rise for achieving certs (conditions apply, of course)
• Staff are encouraged to take advantage of our weekly internal training sessions and library
• Opportunities for personal and professional development with our FastTrack mentor program
• We have our very own MAD (making a difference) Council, focusing on equality, charity, and the environment
• Option of a Tesla company car as part of your ongoing employment package (conditions apply)
• Regular social events and a great team culture!

First Focus welcomes applications from Neurodiverse candidates. We recommend & appreciate disclosure along with the application so that a copy of our Neurodiversity Statement can be provided outlining the flexible options we can offer to best showcase your skills.

First Focus is Australia's best mid-market Managed Service Provider, bar none. We are growing fast and now have over 270 staff across Australia, New Zealand, Philippines, South Africa and Ireland. We are a stable and very focused company, with over 15 years of consistent growth and we're continuing to win new clients and evolve our solutions.

We pride ourselves on being a genuinely great place to work, with a dynamic culture, clear vision and strong leadership. We only hire the best people and are a looking for an exceptional IT professional with a deep understanding of both Managed Services and the needs of mid-tier clients.

We are looking for the best MSP-specialised Senior Service Desk professional in Australia. Why would such an amazing person consider coming to First Focus? What makes First Focus better than where you are today?

• We understand the challenges of Service Desk specialists and work with you and our clients to make sure you still get the time and the opportunity to train and develop
• We seek the best clients for our team to work with as well as the best people to support our clients
• We know that great Service Desk professionals value different things to field support (for example) - daily variety, great customer relationships and new challenges
• We find and retain the best. Best Service Desk, best Managers, best Project Engineers, best team!

Duties

• Providing remote service desk support to a variety of environments from 10 - 500 users, as a point of escalation and SME
• Supporting a combination of servers, desktops and applications within Microsoft Azure, AD and M365 environments
• Delivering the support of Azure, VMWare and Citrix cloud infrastructure
• Performing a wide variety of support across many technologies
• Occasional project team work to deploy solutions for customers
• Working with highly experienced solutions experts to maintain best practice environments

Requirements

• Advanced understanding of end user support and Active Directory
• Comprehensive knowledge of Windows Server, Azure and Exchange
• Genuine exposure across technical infrastructure from desktop to firewall, including LAN & WAN networking
• An understanding of ticketing systems and customer service principles

Benefits

First Focus’ values are based around keeping everyone informed, aligned, supported, and rewarding performance. Some examples of this include:

• Compelling package that includes salary, training and flexible arrangements
• All employees have free access to Uprise, including 1:1 coaching sessions from qualified psychologists or counsellors
• First Focus understands the importance of flexibility for a satisfying work-life balance, which is why we offer hybrid working arrangements
• ‘Never Stop Growing’ is deeply imbedded in our DNA - we offer up to 10 paid training days a year and support employees towards certifications and qualifications - we will not only pay for the exam but will also give you a pay rise for achieving certs (conditions apply, of course)
• Staff are encouraged to take advantage of our weekly internal training sessions and library
• Opportunities for personal and professional development with our FastTrack mentor program
• We have our very own MAD (making a difference) Council, focusing on equality, charity, and the environment
• Option of a Tesla company car as part of your ongoing employment package (conditions apply)
• Regular social events and a great team culture!

First Focus welcomes applications from Neurodiverse candidates. We recommend & appreciate disclosure along with the application so that a copy of our Neurodiversity Statement can be provided outlining the flexible options we can offer to best showcase your skills.

We're on the lookout for 2 x Analysts to join the Business Transformation team within the National IT department of ALDI stores, based in Minchinbury NSW. These positions are for fixed-term contracts until 30 May 2025.

As an Analyst you will be responsible for ongoing monitoring and analysis of new business processes within the AHEAD SAP Centric landscape across all departments. You will present key findings and recommendations to shape the development and delivery of process improvement projects and activities whilst engaging with various stakeholders and experts in a fast-paced retail environment.

What does the role look like? 

• Collaborate with key stakeholders to create meaningful dashboards and analytics
• Design, optimise and monitor data models and data connections (ETL) to build the best possible and real-time capable data architecture
• Architect, design and build robust and scalable solutions
• Drive optimisation, testing and tooling to improve the quality of SAP Systems
• Implement automated measures to ensure data quality issues / errors in applications are automatically prevented / detected and corrected
• Guide internal project teams to optimise technical solutions and outcomes

Reporting to the Director of Corporate Security, the Security Analyst provides technology leadership and hands-on management of key security related IT operations and infrastructure items for the internal corporate systems.  The Information Security Analyst will ensure compliance of overall security program and policies.  Additionally, provides a cyber secure environment and security posture that fosters a high-trust relationship between Dynatrace, its employees, partners, and customers.

This role will be responsible for Threat response, Vulnerability management, executing strategies and ensuring organizational and client IT security expectations are being satisfied. There will be an expectation of collaborating with various cross organizational teams to identify the approach, deliverables, schedule, and tools to deliver within established constraints.

• Location: Australia or APAC region.
• Remote or virtual work is possible if located in the Asia Pacific region.

Responsibilities

• Examine and respond to reported security incidents and phishing attempts, determining the root cause, and escalating as needed.
• Manage and track remediation activities discovered through vulnerability management and scanning tools.  Ensure vulnerability management policy is followed.
• Become subject matter expert (SME) and make recommendations for improvements in security monitoring and compliance tools such as SIEM, Scanning Tools, Firewalls, Microsoft E5 Security Suite, etc.
• Develop and deploy pragmatic solutions, practices, and procedures to ensure Dynatrace meets internal and customer security requirements. 
• Provide operational efficiency within the security team by providing and analyzing key metrics, performance indicators and threat assessments in accordance with security policies and procedures.
• Uncover, categorize, track and close security loopholes to maintain a secure environment.
• Maintain and validate security evidence repository with required documentation for compliance with security policies and audit requests.
• Generate dashboard and scorecards to articulate the current security posture and threat level.
• Reduce time to complete customer security RFIs while improving accuracy and quality of responses.
• Obtain 100% compliance with IT security awareness policy both annually and for new hire training within the specified training windows.
• Maintain SOC2 Type 2 attestation on an annual basis, pursue and facilitate additional certifications as required by business (FedRAMP, ISO 27002:2013, etc.).
• Review Dynatrace vendor’s security posture to ensure they meet Dynatrace requirements.
• Work with third-party security vendor, ensure they have high quality responses and review all RFI responses for accuracy.  Ensure security controls and question bank are updated and accurate.  

Purpose of your role

The Business Analyst position is a key role that is responsible for applying analytical solutions to problems and existing processes with the aim to increase effectiveness through technology solutions.  This role plays an integral part in bridging the gap between Technology, Product and the Business using data analytics to assess processes and determine requirements that will allow Technology delivery teams to effectively meet business needs.  An ability to produce documentation (in a timely manner) that supports either product or project teams to achieve outcomes, using different delivery methodologies is an important part of the role, so a blend of experience is important particularly in terms of agile delivery. 

The initial focus will be working with our Customer Management team, with Salesforce transformation experience essential. The focus will be on working both transformation change initiatives and operational BAU activities that support our Customer Management capabilities team. You will be providing business expertise and practical solution delivery experience to ensure that the team you are working with consistently delivers quality software that meets user product requirements and acceptance criteria. The role will support dependency management and help to remove impediments that are preventing the team from accomplishing its goals.

This role is within a fast-moving team and will involve working with some ambiguity to achieve objectives, so you must be comfortable with that. As such you will be expected to take initiative and display strong communication and time-management skills to facilitate meetings that ensure teams and stakeholders are aligned on the outcomes.

What you do 

• Determine operational objectives by studying business functions; gathering information; evaluating output requirements and formats.  Understand how technology can support business goals
• Identify problems within the business, including using data modelling techniques, constructing workflow diagrams, studying system capabilities, writing specifications
• Communicate with people at all levels of the organisation to determine how technology solutions can meet business needs
• Oversee the implementation of new technology and systems, including enhancements and be a key person to conduct UAT to ensure what has been developed is in line with business requirements
• Run workshops and training sessions
• Evaluate information gathered from multiple sources, reconcile conflicts, decompose high level information into details, abstract up from low-level information to a general understanding, and distinguish user requests from underlying true business needs
• Conduct gap analysis and work with technical leads/architects to identify where existing solutions do not meet the business requirements. Ensure this is clearly documented.  Model the data requirements or work with the appropriate people to ensure that the data will support the new solution
• Determine and develop user requirements for systems in production, to ensure maximum usability
• Work with the SME’s to understand the Customer Management experience and journeys end-to-end
• Strong experience in Salesforce implementations and acting as the SME for Salesforce
• Knowledge of compliance, regulations and customer onboarding processes
• Experience working with Salesforce development teams, either internal teams or 3rd party implementation partners

About Us

Established in 1988, Rest is one of Australia’s largest profit-to-member superannuation funds.

We support more than 1.9 million members, with around $70 billion of funds under management and are recognised as a responsible investment leader*. We believe when members understand and engage with their super, they’re more likely to get a better retirement outcome.

Everything we do at Rest is underpinned by our values and behaviours, we want to Be Daring, Keep it Simple, Take Action and Have Grit. To put it simply we want our people to thrive and love the work they do.

About the Job

In this unique opportunity, you will be responsible for supporting the Investment Product and Communications Team's mission to grow our member's trust through simple connections to Rest's investments. 

Key resposnsibilities:

• Contribute to and create investment related content and communications for us by internal and external stakeholders, including members, employers, and industry
• Monitor and report on investment performance and communicate insights to relevant stakeholders
• Collaborate with other divisions to ensure consistency and integrity of investment messaging across all communication channels
• Conduct research and analysis on investment products, trends, and markets
• Support the team in ad-hoc projects and initiatives as needed

A unique opportunity has become available for a Behaviour Support Practitioner located in Preston or surrounds to join our professional and friendly team.

Thanks to our commitment to service excellence, demand for our services has increased and we have the need to find a new practitioner in the Preston area.  We will consider an entry level practitioner or someone with a sound knowledge of the Positive Behaviour Support Model of reducing the use of Restrictive Practices, as well as a strong commitment to delivering evidence-based, functional behavioural outcomes.

Why Join Us?

• Fantastic team culture - a fun, supportive and quality-focused team which works together to achieve goals
• Generous salary package - above award rates, rewards for outstanding work, great benefits (e.g. $600 annual Wellbeing subsidy), access to salary packaging options and the latest technology to ensure you succeed
• Personal and professional growth - supporting your ongoing professional development and enabling you to do the work you’re most inspired by through our professional development program, fortnightly PD sessions and weekly supervision with your Team Lead
• Work-life balance - flexible work arrangements to plan your work to best suit your lifestyle while also meeting the needs of your team and clients

About you

• Current suitability with the NDIS Commission as a Behaviour Support Practitioner OR ability to meet the NDIS Capability Requirements for approval to be registered as a Behaviour Support Practitioner
• Ability to work effectively across a multidisciplinary team
• Outstanding communication, influencing and interpersonal skills
• Current Driver Licence and own reliable vehicle

#OCA

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.