Senior Business Analyst 

Client: Federal Government

Estimated start date: Tuesday, 01 July 2025

Initial contract duration: 12 months

Experience level: Senior - EL1 equivalent

Location of work: ACT

Working arrangements type: Hybrid

Working arrangements: Preference to spend at least 3 days a week in the office in order to liaise with team and stakeholders directly.

Maximum hours: 40 hours per week

Security clearance: Must be able to obtain Baseline

Job details

The department is seeking experienced Business Analysts (2–3 roles available depending on projects and budget). The Business Analysts will report to the Director – Enterprise Platforms and Project Manager/s, and work with IT project teams, business stakeholders, and vendors to deliver effective analysis and business solutions.

Key duties and responsibilities

• Business analysis and business solution design
• Development of high level, detailed, functional, and non-functional requirements, user
• cases, and scenarios
• Analysis and mapping of business processes, user pathways, and information flows
• Acting as the conduit between business stakeholders, project teams, and IT resources to deliver outcomes.
• Contribution to continuous improvement activities across IT

Mandatory

• Minimum 5 years’ experience delivering business analyst services for government (federal or state)
• Demonstrated experience in technical writing including requirements, guidelines, and process maps
• Highly developed communication skills including prioritisation, problem solving, and relationship building
• Relevant business analyst certification
• Experience delivering solutions supporting legislative changes
• Experience delivering change in vessel safety or similar regulatory functions (e.g. road, air, maritime)

Desirable

• Experience in incident, emergency or first responder management
• Experience contributing to business blueprinting or non-technical outcome documentation
• Experience facilitating scrums using Azure DevOps
• Experience with Dynamics365, SmartIQ, HTML forms, identity management services, or portals