Principal Business Analyst - Single Digital Patient Record
Position: Principal Business Analyst (multiple roles)
Award: Health Manager Level 4
Employment Type: Permanent Full Time
- Opportunity to work from our modern Chatswood/St Leonards offices
- Attractive salary, up to $147,653 up to $175,917 + 12% Super and annual leave loading
- Allocated day off per month, salary packaging, discounted fitness passport and more
- Join the team enriching health in millions of ways every day through digital innovation
Applications Close: 11:59pm, 12 April 2026
About Us – Single Digital Patient Record (SDPR), NSW Health
Be part of the team leading the largest digital transformation in Australia’s public health history. NSW Health’s SDPR program is transforming the way patient care is delivered and experienced - creating a single, secure, holistic, and integrated view of patient information across the entire state.
By connecting every corner of the NSW public health system, this groundbreaking program empowers clinicians and care teams with real-time access to unified patient data - enabling safer, more transparent, and quality care for every person, anywhere.
Join us now and contribute to the millions of ways we're enriching health every day.
About the Opportunity
As a Principal Business Analyst within the Single Digital Patient Record Implementation Authority (SDPRIA), you will play a pivotal role in shaping the future of digital healthcare in NSW. In this role, you will work across different applications and with various teams within SDPR and the LHDs leading business analysis for various workflows and functional requirements. You’ll work closely with stakeholders to identify innovative opportunities, deliver design and architectural artefacts, future state workflow proposals and other deliverables in alignment with SDPR Solution and Integration architectures and roadmap.
This is your chance to make a meaningful difference in a customer-centric organisation that values collaboration, openness, respect, and empowerment. If you're passionate about improving business performance and thrive in a fast-paced, evolving environment, we want to hear from you.
In this role, you will:
- Lead business analysis activities across the Single Digital Patient Record program, owning the review of complex workflows and requirements and proposing solutions after learning the capabilities and limitations of the applications and products.
- Work closely with multiple Application Teams and achieve alignment. Be hands on with configuration and testing when needed to assist the application teams.
- Collaborate with stakeholders across NSW Health to define critical business requirements and deliver integrated, patient-centred digital solutions.
- Provide expert advice on the feasibility and impact of proposed solutions, ensuring alignment with strategic goals, operational needs and SDPR architecture.
About You
We are looking for someone who:
- You have direct and extensive, hands-on experience leading business analysis of EMR applications and workflows.
- You have demonstrated experience in analysing the workflows in the EMR context, documenting functional requirements and explaining to the application teams, guiding and validating the outcome and documenting the future state workflows and architecture
- You excel at stakeholder engagement, with strong ability to listen, facilitate, influence, negotiate, and build strong collaborative relationships.
- You bring a strategic mindset with a deep interest in learning multiple solutions.
- You communicate effectively, lead with integrity, and foster a culture of continuous improvement and accountability.
You will succeed in this role if you:
- Enjoy working in an environment where no two days are the same.
- Are motivated by tight deadlines and problem solving on the go.
- Can juggle multiple priorities while staying calm and outcome focused.
- Thrive when collaborating with others to deliver results in a fast-moving space.
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Working at SDPR
Our people are at the heart of who we are. We support our people with great benefits so they can enrich health in millions of ways every day:
- Professional growth and career development
- Allocated day off per month
- Salary packaging
- Various health and wellbeing programs to support our team
How to apply
Share with us your most up to date resume (up to 5 pages), highlighting your relevant skills and experience along with your response to the targeted question below.
Target Question (max 500 words) - Describe a time when you led a business analysis initiative (EMR context) that involved integrating multiple systems or business analysis of a complex workflow to identify and propose a solution. How did you ensure stakeholder alignment and deliver a solution that improved service delivery or patient outcomes?
We recognise that AI tools are increasingly being used to assist with resumes and applications. While we accept their use, we’re eager to see your personality and get to know the person behind the application!
Role-specific enquiries: If you have any questions about the role, please contact the hiring manager Kalyan Lingineni at kalyan.lingineni@health.nsw.gov.au
General recruitment and adjustment enquiries: If you require assistance, have any questions about the recruitment or require adjustments to the recruitment/interview process, please contact Vaaruni Narayana at vaaruni.narayanaiyengar@health.nsw.gov.au
Additional information
- This role may require evening, night, weekend and/or shift work, in accordance with operational needs and Award provisions.
- This recruitment may be used to create a Talent Pool for similar future roles (ongoing or temporary) that may arise over the next 18 months.
- To be eligible for this role you must have current Australian work rights (Australian citizen, permanent resident, New Zealand citizen with a current passport, or hold a valid visa with permission to work in Australia).
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