Business Analyst

Urgent requirement of Business Analyst - Contract - Melbourne

Requirements

Business Analyst - The Business Analyst – Data & Integration Readiness is accountable for ensuring that business data requirements, end-to-end data flows, and integration data constructs supporting the Blue Yonder TMS Middle Mile (MM) solution are clearly defined, governed, and aligned to enterprise and Blue Yonder data standards. The role ensures data readiness across design, testing, and cutover, acting as a critical bridge between logistics business processes, enterprise data governance, and technical integration delivery.

Required Technical Skill Set

Business Data & Data Flow Analysis

· Analyse and document end to end business data flows across Middle Mile logistics processes, including shipment creation, execution, status events, costs, exceptions, and completion.

· Identify and validate source systems, data producers, consumers, and authoritative systems of record for MM related data.

· Define logical and physical data flows across upstream, Blue Yonder TMS, and downstream systems with explicit hand offs and ownership.

· Ensure alignment between business scenarios and the corresponding data events and transactions flowing through integrations.

Source Data & Data Readiness

· Analyse source data structures, availability, and constraints for systems contributing data to the MM implementation.

· Support data profiling activities by defining business rules, thresholds, and data quality expectations.

· Identify data gaps, inconsistencies, or quality risks impacting integration, testing, or cutover, and document remediation recommendations.

· Validate assumptions around data timeliness, completeness, and frequency from a business and operational perspective.

Enterprise Grade Data Standards & Guardrails

· Define and maintain enterprise grade data artefacts, including:

o Business Data Glossary – agreed business definitions for MM relevant data elements

o Data Dictionary – logical and physical attributes, formats, domains, validation rules

· Ensure artefacts align with customer specific data guardrails and standards, including:

o Naming conventions

o Data ownership and stewardship

o Mandatory / critical data elements

o Data classification and sensitivity constraints

· Work with enterprise data governance teams to ensure consistency with broader organisational data standards.

Blue Yonder–Grade Data Alignment

· Validate that business data definitions and flows are aligned with Blue Yonder TMS data models and event structures.

· Ensure correct interpretation of Blue Yonder specific concepts (e.g. shipments, orders, movements, events, costs) within business data artefacts.

· Support reconciliation between customer business terminology and Blue Yonder canonical data structures, ensuring clarity and traceability.

· Review and validate data elements included in interface payloads to ensure fit for purpose, BY grade data quality.

Testing, Cutover & Release Readiness

· Contribute to the Test Strategy and Traceability Matrix, ensuring coverage of:

o Business critical data scenarios

o Data driven exceptions and negative cases

o Reconciliation and reporting validation

· Support data readiness reviews for SIT, UAT, and pre cutover checkpoints.

· Provide input into Release & Deployment Readiness, focusing on:

o Data availability at cutover

o Data reconciliation approaches, Post go live data validation considerations

Good-to-Have

Integration Readiness & Traceability – optional

· Collaborate with Integration and Architecture teams to ensure that business data requirements are correctly reflected in:

· Interface specifications

· Payload schemas

· Transformation and validation rules

· Establish and maintain end to end traceability from:

· Business requirements → data definitions → interfaces → test scenarios

· Validate error handling, retry, and exception scenarios from a business data perspective.

Duration: 06 Months and possible extension

Eligibility: Australian/NZ Citizens/PR Holders only

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