Business Analyst - ICT at Transpower New Zealand Limited, Wellington

Mō tēnei tūranga mahi | About this role

• Varied intellectually stimulating projects and programmes
• Large and complex IT projects
• Help achieve more efficient outcomes

Support a variety of intellectually stimulating ICT projects and programmes, working closely with both business groups and project teams to deliver on organisational needs.

Transpower owns and operates New Zealand's National Grid - the high voltage transmission network connecting areas of generation with towns and cities across Aotearoa New Zealand.

With a whole-of-industry view of the electricity sector we are at the forefront of enabling the country's energy transformation. Our teams are working hard to enable a sustainable, net-zero carbon future.

Our Information Services and Technology (IST) Division delivers and supports the technology infrastructure and the ~180 applications that interface with the grid, facilitates grid operations and system operations, and supports our corporate processes and functions.  

About the team

Our ICT Delivery Services group, within our award winning ICT Division, Innovation Award | Transpower, work to deliver circa $50m+ of technology projects per annum, employing both waterfall and agile delivery techniques. The group is responsible for the delivery and for the well-managed and appropriately resourced project delivery process, designed to ensure a consistent experience for all stakeholders.

The Delivery Services Business Analysis Capability team sits within our IT Delivery Services Group and provides a critical connection between business groups and project teams to help ensure that planned projects in the longer term and delivery projects in the shorter-term address business needs.

The Opportunity

This is a mid-career Business Analyst role, requiring 3-5 years’ relevant experience working as a Business Analyst, or in a role where business analyst skills are embedded and applied such as a Business Consultant, Process Analyst, Scrum Master, Data Analyst or similar in an ICT consulting or delivery environment.

You’ll apply your business analysis skills to a variety of intellectually stimulating ICT projects and programmes, working closely with both business groups and project teams to ensure initiatives meet organisational needs. You’ll apply comprehensive analysis, critical thinking, and strong relationship building skills to translate complex problems into clear insights that help stakeholders make confident decisions.

Reporting to our Business Analysis Capability Manager, you’ll also play a part in strengthening our BA practice within and mentor Associate Business Analysts within the team. You’ll further support the standardisation of BA ways of working, champion best practice tools and techniques, and promote smart reuse of knowledge and software assets — all aimed at enabling more efficient, consistent, and high-quality delivery.

What will you bring?

A relevant degree qualification and/or business analysis certification and demonstrated ability to alternate between working at a high level and in the detail.  You'll be known for your active listening and communication skills and attention to detail in all written documentation, and have gained experience from multiple ICT projects in:

• Requirements analysis techniques e.g., interviews, workshops, surveys, business process mapping and analysis, document analysis, story maps, use cases, business rules definition, etc.
• Wider business analyst activities such as but not limited to problem analysis, benefits elicitation and mapping, current and future state analysis, writing development ready user stories with clear acceptance criteria, facilitating refinement sessions and user demos.

Your CV and cover letter will demonstrate outstanding ability to:

• Collaborate with Project Managers to plan and estimate business analysis tasks on projects.
• Collaborate on a day-to-day basis with Solution architects, UX & service designers, software developers, and testers to help inform architectural decisions, project phasing and direction.
• Plan and perform a wide range of analysis activities ranging from planning and facilitating requirements elicitation workshops, defining acceptance criteria to running refinement sessions with project teams.
• Work in partnership with a variety of business stakeholders, to define business problems and clarify thinking to draw out key contextual information and future states to provide a robust foundation for projects.

Why Tranpsower?

In addition to providing, you with exposure to a niche business supported by an ICT ecosystem that employs hundreds of applications that keep electricity flowing in Aotearoa New Zealand, we will help you grow in your business analysis journey. We do this by investing in your Business Analysis career via:

• Specialised in-house and external trainings, workshops, certifications, and attendance to BA events.
• On the job training and mentoring by Senior Business Analysts in the team on an ongoing basis.
• Exposure to BA best practices and modern tools to keep up with the latest trends in the analysis space.
• A comprehensive BA development plan that all our BAs go through to inform and support progression.

Join us at Transpower!

Aotearoa New Zealand is powered by the people who work here. Every home, every marae, every electric vehicle, every hospital relies on the electricity we manage and deliver. This is your opportunity to join us on a mission that affects all New Zealanders, every day and long into the future.

With over 28 ethnicities, our people provide diverse perspectives, knowledge, and deep and varied experience which they love to share.

Our environment is modern, supportive and friendly, and your wellbeing is supported with great employee health and wellness benefits - check them out here Staff benefits | Transpower.

Next steps

Please review the position description and apply without delay. 

Role closes Tuesday 27^th January 2026; however, applications will be reviewed as they are received, and you may be contacted for an initial exploratory conversation/interview prior to the close date.  

Full existing eligibility to work in New Zealand is required.