Business Analyst

Business Analysts seek to understanding business processes and determining business requirements for systems. Business Analysts identify opportunities to improve business models, operations, services and processes. They collaborate with stakeholders across the agency to clarify problems, explore opportunities, and support informed decision-making. Senior Business Analysts lead complex analysis, and requirements work across workstreams to support delivery decisions. They manage competing stakeholder needs, establish analysis approaches, and ensure requirements and traceability are effectively managed. They contribute to governance, risk and quality activities for programs. Key duties and responsibilities Work in an Agile multidisciplinary team to design and deliver iterative changes following a 2-week sprint cycle. coordinate complex elicitation activities and adapt techniques to address incomplete information, low engagement, or conflicting inputs manage stakeholder relationships across workstreams, resolve competing needs, and ensure requirements meet agreed quality standards manage the requirements documentation lifecycle for a project, including prioritising requirements, identifying gaps, and confirming requirements are testable manage elicitation to identify business rules, constraints and pain points, and manage scope and change for medium-complexity initiatives produce analysis artefacts to communicate complex concepts, using appropriate models to define scope boundaries and support risk assessment, including: To-Be Business Process Models AS-Is Business process Models Detailed Business User Stories Integration data flow diagrams Use case diagrams Test cases coordinate the business analysis approach for medium complexity initiatives, including selecting methods and defining analysis deliverables conduct current state analysis to confirm business needs and improvement opportunities, and validate proposed solutions against agreed outcomes contribute to change planning and identify complex cross-functional dependencies and advise on sequencing risks, proposing logical implementation phases analyse and manage risks across complex projects and contribute to coordinated risk responses, escalating risks as required coordinate quality assurance and verification and validation activities to align business and technical teams, and assess defect severity and priority analyse change requests and design decisions for complex initiatives, assess impacts, and prepare recommendations for approval act with integrity by promoting workplace practices aligned with the APS Values and the APS Code of Conduct Knowledge / Qualifications Cyber security knowledge and experience Protective Security Policy Framework (PSPF) Information Security Manual (ISM) Essential 8 Strategies National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Business modelling BSMO – Level 4 Business process improvement BPRE – Level 5 Business situation analysis BUSA – Level 4 Feasibility assessment FEAS – Level 3 Requirements definition and management REQM – Level 4 Stakeholder relationship management RLMT – Level 5 Criteria The buyer has specified that each candidate must provide a one page pitch to address all criteria specified. This is equal to 5000 characters. Essential criteria 1. Demonstrated experience in cyber resilience, security remediation or compliance initiatives within large and complex ICT environments, preferably within Australian Government or other regulated environments. 2. Demonstrated and proven experience performing the duties and responsibilities relevant to the role being applied for, including the required technical skills, technologies, frameworks and methodologies identified in the RFQ 3. Demonstrated experience applying cyber security frameworks, policies and standards, including the Protective Security Policy Framework (PSPF), Information Security Manual (ISM), Essential Eight and other relevant security and risk management frameworks. 4. Demonstrated ability to engage, influence and collaborate with a broad range of stakeholders, including senior executives, technical specialists, business representatives and external providers 5. Must hold and maintain a current Negative Vetting Level 1 (NV1) Security Clearance Desirable criteria 1. Demonstrated experience delivering cyber security, infrastructure, ICT transformation or uplift activities within government agencies or complex ICT environments 2. Experience working within large-scale enterprise environments involving cloud platforms, identity and access management, security operations, infrastructure, applications and data services. 3. Demonstrated ability to deliver outcomes within tight timeframes while managing competing priorities, dependencies and stakeholder expectation 4. Demonstrated ability to communicate complex technical and cyber security concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences and contribute to capability uplift through mentoring, collaboration and knowledge transfer activities. Opportunity summary Sellers can submit Up to 2 candidates Number of sellers invited More than 10 Number of candidates submitted Fewer than 10 RFQ closing time 02 Weeks 01 Days 12 Hours Send us feedback About Accessibility Privacy Terms of use Disclaimer and copyright An initiative of the Digital Transformation Agency The Australian Government acknowledges the Traditional Owners of Country throughout Australia and acknowledges their continuing connection to land, waters and community. We pay our respects to the people, the cultures and the Elders past and present. © Commonwealth of Australia