Business Rules Author
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Tēnei tūranga – About the role
The Business Rules Author is a team member position in MBIE. The Business Rules Author will bring their business understanding and perspective to work in partnership with their manager and other staff.
The Business Rules Author contributes to the operations of the Business Analytics and Targeting team. The team is responsible for developing robust profiles and providing quality risk and value information to support immigration decision makers.
Ngā herenga – Requirements of the role
Personal specifications
- Ability to translate business rule requirements into implementable rules (logic statements) within a rules engine.
- A good understanding of syntax, vocabulary, and logic in a rules engine, or similar tool.
- Experience working with data.
- Experience developing and testing business rules using rules engine software preferred.
- Ability to develop the governance and rule management processes and procedures for use by analysts to manage rules.
- Ability to work independently, a can-do attitude, and can quickly assimilate new information or areas of work.
- Communicates effectively at all levels to both technical and non-technical audiences.
- Must be a NZ citizen or hold a Permanent Resident visa.
Qualifications
- A tertiary qualification or extensive, comparable relevant experience in data analytics and / or query tools.
Takohanga tuhinga o mua – Key accountabilities and deliverables
Critical areas of success
- Delivery of Business Analytics and Targeting services, products and programmes that actively support and contribute to the achievement of the Ministry’s outcomes and that deliver to the needs of internal and external stakeholders.
- Write and implement detailed rules, following appropriate syntax and using standard vocabulary.
- Monitor and report on end-to-end system performance.
- Assist the Business Rules Specialist(s) manage rule deployment and rule set quality.
- Manage the documentation of rule assessments, authoring and testing, and governance decisions.
- Challenge rules for ambiguity, inconsistency, and conflict from a technical perspective.
Relationship Management
- Ability to build and maintain relationships with others.
- Relationships with your peers, your stakeholders and your leaders are productive; communication is professional, clear and timely. Your conversations are robust, and trust is created.
- Work collaboratively with project teams.
Technical Complexity
- Rapidly absorbs new information and applies it effectively.
- Absorbs complex information and communicates effectively at all levels to both technical and non-technical audiences.
- Manages and mitigates risk. Understands the implications of new technologies.
- Promotes compliance with relevant legislation.
- Takes the initiative to keep own skills up to date.
Process improvement
- Identify enhancements to existing processes as it relates to the work of the team.
- Contribute to continous improvement process for the BAT team and INZ.
Wellbeing, health and safety
- Displays commitment through actively supporting all safety and wellbeing initiatives.
- Ensures own and others safety at all times.
- Complies with relevant safety and wellbeing policies, procedures, safe systems of work and event reporting.
- Reports all incidents/accidents, including near misses in a timely fashion.
- Is involved in health and safety through participation and consultation.
Tō tūranga i roto i te Manatū – Your place in the Ministry
The Business Rules Author position reports into the Team Leader within the Immigration Risk and Border branch. The branch sits within the Immigration New Zealand group.
To mātou aronga – What we do for Aotearoa New Zealand
Hīkina Whakatutuki is the te reo Māori name for the Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment. Hīkina means to uplift. Whakatutuki means to move forward, to make successful. Our name speaks to our purpose, Grow Aotearoa New Zealand for All.
To Grow Aotearoa New Zealand for All, we put people at the heart of our mahi. Based on the principles of Te Tiriti o Waitangi / The Treaty of Waitangi, we are committed to upholding authentic partnerships with Māori.
As agile public service leaders, we use our breadth and experience to navigate the ever-changing world. We are service providers, policy makers, investors and regulators. We engage with diverse communities, businesses and regions. Our work touches on the daily lives of New Zealanders. We grow opportunities (Puāwai), guard and protect (Kaihāpai) and innovate and navigate towards a better future (Auaha).
Ngā matatau – Our competencies
Cultivates innovation We create new and better ways for the organisation to be successful by challenging the status quo generating new and creative ideas and translating them into workable solutions.
Nimble learning We are curious and actively learn through experimentation when tackling new problems by learning as we go when facing new situations and challenges.
Customer focus We build strong customer relationships and deliver customer-centric solutions by listening and gaining insights into the needs of the communities we serve and actively seeking and responding to feedback.
Decision quality We make quality and timely decisions that shape the future for our communities and keep the organisation moving forward by relying on an appropriate mix of analysis, wisdom, experience, and judgement to make valid and reliable decisions.
Action oriented We step up, taking on new opportunities and tough challenges with purpose, urgency and discipline by taking responsibility, ownership and action on challenges, and being accountable for the results.
Collaborates We connect, working together to build partnerships with our communities, working collaboratively to meet shared objectives by gaining trust and support of others; actively seeking the views, experiences, and opinions of others and by working co-operatively with others across MBIE, the public sector and external stakeholder groups.
Te Tiriti o Waitangi
As an agency of the public service, MBIE has a responsibility to contribute to the Crown meeting its obligations under Te Tiriti o Waitangi (Te Tiriti). Meeting our commitment to Te Tiriti will contribute towards us realising the overall aims of Te Ara Amiorangi – Our Path, Our Direction, and achieve the outcome of Growing New Zealand for All. The principles of Te Tiriti - including partnership, good faith, and active protection – are at the core of our work. MBIE is committed to delivering on our obligations as a Treaty partner with authenticity and integrity and to enable Māori interests. We are committed to ensuring that MBIE is well placed to meet our obligations under the Public Service Act 2020 (Te Ao Tūmatanui) to support the Crown in strengthening the Māori/Crown Relationship under the Treaty and to build MBIE’s capability, capacity and cultural intelligence to deliver this.
Mahi i roto i te Ratonga Tūmatanui – Working in the public service
Ka mahitahi mātou o te ratonga tūmatanui kia hei painga mō ngā tāngata o Aotearoa i āianei, ā, hei ngā rā ki tua hoki. He kawenga tino whaitake tā mātou hei tautoko i te Karauna i runga i āna hononga ki a ngāi Māori i raro i te Tiriti o Waitangi. Ka tautoko mātou i te kāwanatanga manapori. Ka whakakotahingia mātou e te wairua whakarato ki ō mātou hapori, ā, e arahina ana mātou e ngā mātāpono me ngā tikanga matua o te ratonga tūmatanui i roto i ā mātou mahi.
In the public service we work collectively to make a meaningful difference for New Zealanders now and in the future. We have an important role in supporting the Crown in its relationships with Māori under the Treaty of Waitangi. We support democratic government. We are unified by a spirit of service to our communities and guided by the core principles and values of the public service in our work.
What does it mean to work in Aotearoa New Zealand’s Public Service?(external link) — Te Kawa Mataaho The Public Service Commission
