Every bad feature starts life as a valid-looking request.
http
POST /features HTTP/1.1
Content-Type: application/json
{
"ask": "make it work like the other one",
"acceptance_criteria": null,
"stakeholders": ["everyone"],
"edge_cases": []
}
http
HTTP/1.1 400 Bad Request
{
"error": "requirement_not_testable",
"resolution": "send a human"
}
You are the human.
The role
Technical Business Analyst on a 12 month contract, sitting between the product tribes and the engineering teams on a newly funded programme. No direct reports. You own the solution instead.
What the work looks like
- Workshop with business owners in the morning, refinement with engineers in the afternoon, and both walk out feeling understood
- Turn what people say they want into what they actually need, then into user stories and acceptance criteria an engineer can pick up without asking you what you meant
- Pull apart system and enterprise architecture until you know how the thing really behaves
- Stay with the solution from pre-discovery all the way through delivery, not just until the Confluence page is signed off
You will recognise yourself if
- You have around five years doing this properly, in real agile teams, not agile-as-a-meeting-schedule
- You read an API spec for orientation, not for reassurance. Swagger, Postman, JIRA, Confluence
- You understand cloud, microservices and how digital products get built, without being asked to write the code
- You have started using AI tools in your own work and have opinions about where they help and where they do not
The detail
- Day rate contract, 12 month initial duration
- Sydney CBD, hybrid, three days on site
- Mid-level by design. If you are a principal, this one will bore you
Want to see it?
Say the word and I will send the full job description across, no obligation, no twenty questions first.
📌 New Job Opening: Technical Business Analyst in Sydney
🏢 Nameless
📍 Sydney
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