Business Analyst Jobs in New Zealand

About the Role

We'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