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PRIMARY DETAIL $119,056 to $132,475 (HEW Level 8) plus 17% employer’s superannuation contribution and annual leave loading Full Time FTC Until 31st December 2026 Based at Macquarie University, Wallumattagal Campus, North Ryde The Role The Senior Business Analyst acts as a crucial link between the IT Health team and the hospital's clinical and administrative departments, ensuring that technology solutions effectively meet business needs and deliver positive outcomes. This role involves leading comprehensive investigations, analyses, reviews, and documentation of business requirements to support improvement initiatives, while also playing a key role in the successful implementation of IT projects, fostering business agility, and enhancing patient care. Key responsibilities: Collaborate with business analysts, subject matter experts, and end users to gather and analyse business requirements. Translate business requirements into functional and non-functional specifications. Serve as the liaison between business stakeholders and technical teams, ensuring effective communication and understanding of business requirements, technical solutions and business benefits. Collaborate with MQ Health and stakeholders on project strategies, requirements and feasibility assessments. Support the development and execution of test plans and test cases to ensure system testing accurately validates whether the system meets business requirements. Support change management and training activities to facilitate process and end user adoption. Create and maintain comprehensive documentation to support scope and requirements traceability, change control, adoption of future state processes, continuous improvement, and ongoing supportability of the platform. Raise risks and issues to appropriate members of the project/program and support the management of controls or mitigation actions. Develop and maintain technical documentation, including system specifications, data models, and process and data flows. Provide post-implementation support and monitor system performance. About You Strong analytical and problem-solving skills in business process and technical contexts. An ability to understand complex clinical workflows to identify opportunities for improvement through technology. Excellent written and verbal communication skills, capable of conveying complex technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders Proven experience supporting business requirement gathering, user acceptance testing, change management and training activities, to facilitate successful system implementation and process adoption. Proven ability to develop and maintain comprehensive project, business process, user support, and system support documentation. Experience working with a wide range of stakeholders with varying levels of technical literacy to deliver successful outcomes. Desirable Criteria: Familiarity with tools such as Visio, Figma, Jira, Confluence, or similar. Experience in working in a healthcare environment and familiar with healthcare data standards and terminologies. Experience working with external vendors or implementation partners. About Us Macquarie is a university engaged with the real and often complex problems and opportunities that define our lives. Celebrating its 60th year in 2024, it was established as a bold experiment in higher education and designed to break from educational traditions to work in tandem with industry. Institutionally we strive for the extraordinary by challenging convention and embracing different views. Our pioneering culture has encouraged and inspired students, staff and collaborators to break free from conventional thinking, and to actively shape the complex issues that define the future of humanity. Why work at Macquarie We rank amongst the top employers in the Australian Workplace Employers Index, having recently earned a five-star rating in the QS World Rankings with the highest rating for employability. Our prime location, we are walking distance from Macquarie University Metro Station and Macquarie Shopping Centre. Not only are we close, take a look at our benefits on offer: 17% Superannuation Subsidised onsite parking options Flexible working options Training and professional development Onsite childcare facilities Discounted health insurance (Medibank) Onsite vacation care Employee Assistance Program Subsidised membership at the Sport & Aquatic Centre Onsite GP, imaging & physio clinics Please note that this position requires a criminal check. We reserve the right to progress or decline an application prior to the advertised closing date. If you're already part of the Macquarie Group (MQ University, U@MQ, MQ Health, MGSM), you'll need to apply through your employee Workday account. To apply for this job: Login to Workday and go to the Careers App > Find Jobs. Applications Close: 09/10/2025 11:59 PM A Place Where You Belong At Macquarie, we believe diversity makes us stronger, inclusion drives our success, and belonging inspires us to do our best work. We are proud to foster a community where different backgrounds, identities, and experiences are valued, and where our people are empowered to thrive through supportive leadership, shared responsibility, and a deep commitment to genuine care and respect for our community. Find out more about our vision for a truly inclusive workplace in our Diversity, Inclusion and Belonging Framework. Learn More Discover the unique career opportunities we can offer by visiting our Careers Page. At MQ Health we unite the best clinicians, the most astounding researchers and the most dynamic teachers to lead the development of health and medical education and practice in Australia. MQ Health is Australia’s first fully integrated academic health sciences centre under a University’s leadership. Founded to advance the tripartite missions of clinical care, learning and research, we are bold and ambitious in our pursuit of patient-centred excellence. MQ Health's integrated approach delivers holistic patient care and treatment informed directly by world-renowned research, continuous learning for improved patient outcomes, and enhanced clinical and teaching experiences