Senior Business Analyst

Discover a career with purpose at MBIE

• Are you ready to make a meaningful impact at the heart of the immigration system?
• Work in a dynamic environment and be part of a team responsible for delivering transformational change
• Lead high‑quality business analysis to enable future-focused digital services that improve the identification and management of risk across the immigration system.
• Influence complex change across systems, processes and operating models
• Apply your strong business knowledge of the immigration system, and in particular immigration risk management, to ensure that business requirements drive the right outcomes
• 24-Month Fixed Term opportunity based in Wellington
• Salary range: $101,911 - $121,196 (dependent on skills and experience)

Tēnei tūranga - About the Role:

The Our Future Services programme is bringing visa applications and processing into a single digital platform, supported by smart risk management, modern tools and redesigned end‑to‑end processes that deliver a better experience for kaimahi and customers.

The programme is delivered through multiple workstreams operating in parallel, each responsible for implementing key initiatives to agreed milestones. A critical part of this work includes strengthening enabling foundations and safely decommissioning legacy systems as Immigration New Zealand transitions to modern, integrated platforms.

You will be part of the Future Services Branch within Immigration New Zealand, reporting to the Workstream Delivery Manager (Enabling Foundations and Legacy System Decommissioning). As a Senior Business Analyst, you will play a key role in shaping and delivering complex change initiatives that support the immigration system’s future operating model.

This role will primarily focus on analytical support for the Enabling Foundations workstream, including the delivery of a decision intelligence capability for the immigration system. Your knowledge of how the immigration system’s components play a role in the management of immigration risk will help Enabling Foundations to deliver the new capabilities we need to achieve our goals under Our Future Services.

You will bring strong analytical capability, systems thinking and business insight to identify problems, assess impacts, develop options and support decision‑making. Working closely with delivery leads, policy teams, technical specialists and stakeholders across MBIE and government, you will lead and contribute to the design of solutions that improve customer and staff experiences while ensuring alignment with Immigration New Zealand’s strategy and operating model.

In this role you will also provide leadership and mentoring within the business analysis community across MBIE, helping to build capability and promote best practice across the programme. 

Ngā pukenga me ngā wheako e hiahiatia ana -

Skills and Experience Required

To be successful in this role, you will bring:

• Extensive knowledge of the systems development lifecycle.
• Significant experience delivering business analysis, including options analysis, impact analysis and the use of established tools and methodologies.
• Proven experience in business process design and analysis, preferably within a government environment.
• Strong understanding of the machinery of government, ideally including Immigration New Zealand or MBIE operations.
• Experience developing sound business cases and project documentation.
• Ability to analyse impacts across systems, processes, people, publications, finance and reporting.
• Strong written communication skills, with the ability to present complex information clearly and succinctly.
• Confidence working with quantitative data and doing cost-benefit analysis to support recommendations.
• Excellent stakeholder engagement, collaboration and influencing skills.
• Proven ability to coach, guide and support peers and less‑experienced analysts.
• Tertiary qualification or equivalent experience in business analysis.
• You must have the legal right to live and work in New Zealand.
• Applications from candidates with relevant volunteer or community experience that demonstrates transferable skills are welcome.

Applicants must be a New Zealand citizen or permanent resident visa holder.

Ētahi kōrero mō MBIE - About MBIE:

MBIE's goal is to create a resilient and high-performing economy that delivers real and ongoing quality of life for all New Zealanders.

We do this by working with others to create an environment that supports businesses to be more productive and internationally competitive, enables all New Zealanders to participate in the economy through improved job opportunities and by working to ensure quality housing is more affordable.

People are at the heart of our mahi, our way of working is guided by our values which shape our behaviours.

• Mahi Tahi – Better Together
• Māia – Bold and brave
• Pae Kahurangi – Build our Future
• Pono Me Te Tika – Own It

Our aspirations are echoed in our Māori identity – Hīkina Whakatutuki – which broadly means ‘lifting to make successful'.

MBIE recognises the partnership founded under Te Tiriti o Waitangi between Māori and the Crown and is committed to giving effect to Te Tiriti o Waitangi. We will do this through enduring, meaningful and effective partnerships with iwi, Māori, other Māori groups/organisations and the Crown, as this is critical to enable economic and social development, both for Māori and for wider Aotearoa New Zealand. We are committed to continuing to partner with iwi in order to find new sustainable solutions to address long standing systemic and cross-cutting issues facing Māori and wider Aotearoa New Zealand and we are also committed to identifying opportunities for iwi to lead and creating an enabling environment for iwi to leverage these opportunities.

E mōhio ana a Hīkina Whakatutuki i puea ake te kōtuinga I waenganui i a ngāi Māori me te Karauna i Te Tiriti o Waitangi, ā, kei te whai ia ki te whakaū ake i Te Tiriti o Waitangi. Mā te whai kiko o ngā kōtuinga ahungaroa o ngāi wi, o ngāi Māori, me ētahi atu rōpū Māori ki te Karauna, katutuki tēnei. He āhuatanga nui tēnei e āhei ai ngā mahi whanaketanga ā-ohanga, ā-pāpori hoki ki a ngāi Māori me Aotearoa whānui. E whai tonu ana mātou ki te kōtui atu ki ngā iwi mō te rapu huarahi hou ki te whakaara i ngā kaupapakua roa nei e tāmi ana i a ngāi Māori me Aotearoa whānui, ā, e whai ana hoki ki te tautohu i ngā āheinga kōkiritanga mā ngā iwi, me te tautoko i ngā iwi kia whai mana ake ai ēnei āheinga.

Me pēhea te tono - How to Apply:

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When you are ready to apply please send a CV and cover letter telling us why you're the perfect fit for this role. All applications must be submitted via our online process.

We can't wait to hear from you! Email Nik Sharma at nikhil.sharma@mbie.govt.nz quoting ref MBIE/19417 if you have any further questions.

Applications close on Monday, 4 May 2026