The Story
This opportunity sits within a well-established Australian retail organisation with a strong national footprint and a loyal customer base. The business is currently navigating an exciting phase of transformation, including upcoming ERP and POS migration programs.
To support this journey, they are strengthening their Business Systems team to ensure operational continuity and system stability across their core platforms.
This 12-month fixed term contract will play a critical role in supporting BAU operations while the broader transformation roadmap progresses — with strong potential for extension.
The Role
Reporting to the Business Systems Manager, this role focuses primarily on L2/L3 application support, ensuring the reliability and performance of key retail systems.
Day to day, you will:
- Provide second-level functional and technical support to users
- Troubleshoot and resolve incidents across retail applications
- Analyse and resolve system issues through back-end SQL investigation
- Work closely with vendors and internal IT teams to deliver solutions
- Support integrations between applications
- Document business requirements and technical specifications
- Assist in testing, implementation and change management activities
- Contribute to training and user documentation where required
You will operate in an ITIL-based service management environment, taking ownership of issues through to resolution and ensuring minimal disruption to business operations.
What You Bring To The Role
- Proven experience supporting retail systems within a retail environment
- Strong L2/L3 application support capability
- Advanced SQL and RDBMS skills, including data modelling, querying and optimisation
- Solid hands-on experience with Microsoft SQL Server, particularly back-end analysis
- Experience operating within an ITIL service management framework
- The ability to quickly learn new systems and step into an existing BAU workload with minimal ramp-up time
- Strong troubleshooting and analytical skills, with the ability to investigate issues at database level
- Clear and confident communication skills, comfortable engaging with internal business stakeholders as customers
- A proactive approach with the ability to work autonomously while collaborating effectively within a team
Desirable (but not essential) skills include:
- Exposure to retail platform Aptos
- Scripting capability (Python or PowerShell)
- Relevant tertiary qualification in IT
What’s In It For You?
- 12-month fixed term contract with a strong likelihood of extension (up to two years)
- Exposure to a significant ERP and POS transformation program
- Opportunity to play a key role in stabilising and supporting a core retail systems landscape
- Collaborative and supportive IT team environment
- A business that values initiative, ownership and proactive problem-solving
- Genuine opportunity to grow your exposure to enterprise-level transformation while maintaining strong hands-on technical capability
This is an excellent opportunity for a capable Systems Analyst who wants stability, responsibility, and exposure to transformation — all within a supportive and commercially focused retail environment.