Senior Business Analyst

About the Client
Our client is a highly regarded Australian Government agency operating within the national security and intelligence environment. Their work supports the protection of Australia’s national interests through the delivery of critical cyber security, intelligence and technology capabilities.
Based in Canberra, this opportunity sits within a complex, highly secure ICT environment and offers the chance to contribute to significant technology and capability uplift initiatives.
 
About the Role
We are seeking an experienced Senior Business Analyst to support the delivery of a major ICT and network capability uplift program.
Working at a senior level, you will act as a key link between business stakeholders, security specialists, architects, vendors and technical delivery teams. You’ll be responsible for translating complex business needs into clear, secure, scalable and fit-for-purpose requirements and solutions.
 
Your responsibilities will include:

• Leading the elicitation, analysis, validation and documentation of business, functional, non-functional and security requirements.
• Facilitating workshops, interviews and stakeholder consultations to understand operational needs, capability gaps and solution requirements.
• Developing high-quality BA artefacts including requirements documentation, user stories, process maps, use cases, data models and traceability matrices.
• Analysing current and future-state processes and identifying opportunities to improve security, efficiency, automation and compliance.
• Assessing business impacts, risks, dependencies and potential solution options.
• Working closely with solution architects, security specialists, project managers, technical teams and vendors.
• Supporting testing, UAT and solution validation to ensure delivered capabilities meet agreed business and security requirements.
• Contributing to governance, reporting, change management, risk management and benefits realisation throughout the delivery lifecycle.

The Successful Candidate
 
You’ll be an experienced Business Analyst who is comfortable working across complex ICT environments and engaging with both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
 
Ideally, you will bring:

• 5+ years’ experience delivering business analysis services across complex ICT projects or programs.
• Strong experience eliciting, analysing, documenting and managing business and system requirements across multiple stakeholder groups.
• Strong capability across business process modelling, requirements management, gap analysis, workflow analysis and process improvement.
• Experience producing quality BA artefacts including requirements specifications, process maps, user stories, use cases and traceability documentation.
• Excellent stakeholder engagement, workshop facilitation, communication and negotiation skills.
• Knowledge of Australian Government security frameworks including the ISM, PSPF and Essential Eight.
• Experience within Defence, national security or similarly secure environments will be highly regarded.
• Exposure to enterprise networking, ICT infrastructure, cyber security or telecommunications environments would be advantageous.
• Familiarity with BABOK, PRINCE2, Agile, SAFe or PMBOK methodologies.
• Experience with tools such as Jira, Confluence, Azure DevOps, Visio and SharePoint.

 
Candidates must also be willing to undergo an Organisational Suitability Assessment (OSA) prior to engagement.
 
Why partner with Whizdom?
We’re Whizdom. We view you as an extension of our strong, dependable brand and have differentiators which really are different! The Whizdom way:

• We pay our contractors same day you submit your timesheet!
• We are Level 3, DISP certified and have signed the Veteran Employment Commitment and been awarded the highest level of compliance to this important initiative, proactively assisting veterans transitioning from the forces to civilian roles. We’ve been lucky enough to win industry awards for our high level of process compliance and are ISO 9001 certified. Our commitment to reducing Greenhouse Gas Emissions has been accredited in line with large global organisations.
• We value diversity and welcome applications from Indigenous Australians, people from diverse cultural and linguistic backgrounds and people living with a disability.

 
Location: The role is based in Canberra ACT.
Contract terms: 12 months from commencement date, plus 2x 12 month extensions
Experience Level: Senior – EL1 Equivalent
Security Requirements: Candidates must hold an active or reactivatable Top Secret Positive Vetting (TSPV) Security Clearance on submission. Our client is not prepared to upgrade an existing clearance for this position. An OSA (Organisational Suitability Assessment) will be required for this position.
How to Apply: Please upload your resume to apply. Please note you will need to complete selection criteria to complete this application process. We will be in touch with instructions for suitably skilled candidates.
 
Candidates will need to be willing to undergo pre-employment screening checks which may include, ID and work rights, security clearance verification and any other client requested checks.
 
Applications open until  8am 25 November 2026.
Reach Damien on 0480 002 503 or damienm@whizdom.com.au for any further information.