CONTRACT - Senior Technical Business Analyst
Datacom Hamilton City, Waikato, New Zealand
IT Services and IT Consulting · 5,001-10,000 employees
About the role
The Senior Technical Business Analyst will bridge business requirements with technical delivery by leading requirements gathering and creating technical documentation. They will support API design, integration, and system enhancements while working closely with product, engineering, and delivery teams.
What they look for
Requirements
Candidates must have 12+ years of experience as a Business Analyst with strong technical expertise in API integrations and RESTful services. Proficiency in Agile/SAFe methodologies, SQL, and technical documentation is essential for this role.
Full description
About the RoleWe're looking for an experienced Senior Technical Business Analyst to join us on an initial 3-month contract engagement, with potential for extension.
You'll work across complex technology environments, bridging business requirements with technical delivery and supporting system enhancements, integrations, and API-led solutions.
This role is suited to a highly experienced Technical BA with strong API knowledge who can work closely with stakeholders, developers, testers, and delivery teams.
What You'll Do• Lead requirements gathering and translate business needs into clear technical requirements.
- Create high-quality user stories, acceptance criteria, process flows, and technical documentation.
- Work closely with product, engineering, testing, and delivery teams.
- Support API design, integration, and API contract definition and maintenance.
- Analyse systems, data flows, dependencies, and integration requirements.
- Support delivery across Agile and SAFe environments.
What You'll Bring• 12+ years' experience as a Business Analyst, including significant Technical BA experience.
- Strong experience with Swagger, Postman, REST APIs, API contracts, and API integrations.
- Experience creating user stories, acceptance criteria, and technical documentation.
- Strong stakeholder management and communication skills.
- Experience with Agile/SAFe, Jira, and Confluence.
- Understanding of API security, cloud concepts, containerisation, CI/CD, service discovery, and distributed tracing.
- Strong SQL, data analysis, and system integration knowledge.
- Previous hands-on API development experience would be a strong advantage.
- Experience with APIs at scale, API best practices, reusability, resilience, and ITSM practices is desirable.
- Banking, payments, credit card, insurance, or broader financial services experience will be highly regarded.
Contract: Initial 3 months with potential extension Location: Wellington, Auckland or Midlands Start: ASAP
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