Senior Business Analyst

Job Description:

Te Ratonga Tautoko Hangarau | Digital Services

Located in Ōtautahi | Christchurch, Aotearoa | New Zealand

• Two fixed term roles

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Āu Mahi | What You Will Do
Digital Services have two fixed term Senior Business Analyst positions available, each one working on a different project. As a Senior Business Analyst, you’ll be both a team player and a coach—eliciting, analysing, and validating business needs for innovative projects. You’ll work closely with Product Managers, delivery teams, and stakeholders to ensure solutions are fit-for-purpose and deliver real value.

Role 1:

• Fixed-Term position until 29 October 2027, 37.5 hours per week.
• Salary - $108,459 - $132,255 p.a, based on skills and experience

This role supports the implementation of a new Higher Degree and Ethics Monitoring System, working closely with the Graduate School, Ethics Committees, and other relevant stakeholders to ensure the solution is well designed, configured and tested.

Role 2:

• Fixed-Term position until 21 December 2026, 37.5 hours per week
• Salary – $108,459 - $121,679 p.a, based on skills and experience

This role plays a key part in enabling the Flexible Assessments programme (Phase 1), by translating academic, policy, and regulatory requirements into clear, implementable business and system outcomes.

For Phase 1 of the Flexible Assessments programme, this role is focused on eliciting, analysing, and clarifying academic, policy, and operational requirements to support shared understanding and informed decision making. This includes analysing current assessment practices, identifying constraints and opportunities, and defining feasible future technology options for consideration.

Working closely with academic leaders, professional staff, and delivery teams, the Senior Business Analyst provides analytical leadership to support feasibility assessment, scope definition, and readiness for subsequent implementation phases.

This is a time limited engagement focused on analysis, discovery, and definition activities.

Both roles will focus on:

• Creating effective communication and relationship-building with stakeholders across the University
• Gathering, analysing, and documenting business and technical requirements for digital solutions
• Facilitating workshops, meetings, and presentations with senior stakeholders
• Supporting the development and delivery of product roadmaps, business cases, and process models

Mōu | Who You Are
You will have at least 10 years’ experience as a Business Analyst in IT with a commercial or private sector, hold a bachelor’s degree (NZQA Level 7) in IT, Computer Science, Software Engineering, or related field. You will also be able to demonstrate experience in:

• Strong technical background and ability to lead technical teams
• Proven expertise in requirements gathering, gap analysis, data modelling, and process mapping
• Experience delivering digital solutions and developing business rules/policies
• Skilled facilitator of large meetings and workshops with senior stakeholders
• Familiarity with Agile and Lean methodologies
• Excellent communication, documentation, and organisational skills
• An alignment with our organisation's values and culture, promoting a positive and inclusive work environment.

Mahi Ngātahi | Who You Will Work With
Building world-class digital capability is crucial to the University of Canterbury's ongoing success. Digital Services is a large team, striving to provide a modern dynamic foundation from which the University (UC) can explore new business models and ways of working. Digital will transform how we work, behave, and the expectations of the communities we service.

Ngā Painga o UC | Why UC
At UC, being part of our team means more than just a job. We are committed to supporting our kaimahi | staff’s career and wellbeing with benefits designed to help our kaimahi grow and feel connected, supported and valued.

UC’s Benefits approach is shaped by Ngā Uara | Our Values Whanaungatanga, Tiakitanga, and Manaakitanga. They are designed to be relevant, support and inspire our people, they include:

• 5 weeks annual leave +5 days university holidays
• UC Parental Leave (up to 9 weeks paid) + 26 weeks Government paid parental leave and onsite childcare facility
• generous employer contribution to superannuation (up to 6.75%)
• flexible working arrangements
• professional development and study opportunities
• supportive working environment
• a wide range of retail discounts across shopping, entertainment and travel
• on-campus staff discounts including UC RecCentre
• living in revitalised Ōtautahi | Christchurch, Aotearoa New Zealand
• a unique working environment in a beautiful campus with access to UC facilities such as UC RecCentre and Staff Club at discounted rates plus onsite cafés and eateries, and more.

For more information, please visit us: https://www.canterbury.ac.nz/about-uc/work-at-uc/benefits-working-uc

For more information about Te Whare Wānanga o Waitaha | University of Canterbury, please visit https://www.canterbury.ac.nz/

The closing date for this position is: 11 May 2026 (midnight, NZ time)
Please note, applications will be reviewed as they are received, and interviews may take place before the close date.

Pēhea te tono mai | How You Apply

Applications for this position must be submitted via our careers website and should include a cover letter and resume.

Please note, we do not accept applications by email, however we are happy to answer your queries in relation to the application process, please forward these to [email protected]

You must have Aotearoa New Zealand or Australian citizenship/permanent residency or hold a valid NZ work visa to be considered for this role.

Please note, this is an onsite position.