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We are seeking an experienced Lead Business Analyst with strong infrastructure and delivery experience to lead complex technology initiatives and drive business outcomes across a diverse portfolio of work. This role requires a strategic thinker who can operate effectively in ambiguous environments, shape requirements from high-level concepts, and partner with stakeholders to deliver practical, value-driven solutions.
As a Lead BA, you will provide leadership across business analysis practice, guide delivery teams through discovery and implementation, and ensure opportunities are translated into well-defined, prioritised, and executable work.
This is a 12-month contract role.
Your background
- Deep expertise in delivering business analysis for large scale Infrastructure Transformation/Migration programs.
- Have a strong technical business analysis experience and knowledge in Infrastructure domain.
- Experienced in understanding, gathering, and documenting complex requirements for a variety of systems and domains.
- Experienced in leading backlog refinement, prioritisation, grooming, and estimation activities across multiple streams of work.
- Experienced in identifying the most efficient implementation pathway by assessing dependencies, existing initiatives, delivery constraints, and strategic priorities.
- Influence and negotiate with stakeholders to align requirements with broader organisational objectives and delivery roadmaps.
- Drive business process analysis, future-state design, impact assessments, and solution recommendations.
- Experience in agile and waterfall methodologies.
- Exceptional interpersonal skills to collaborate, influence and partner effectively with key stakeholders across the Reserve Bank and externally.
- Be an energetic strategic thinker who has considerable attention to detail.
- Have a curious and accountable mindset.
- IIBA Certified – CBAP (Preferred)
Additional Requirements
- Demonstrated experience in Requirements Management and can independently fulfil the BA activities and deliverables accordingly.
- Demonstrated experience in solution evaluation and can conduct solution analysis, document findings, and make recommendations.
- Demonstrates advanced knowledge/proficiency with business process modelling, traceability, and quality management techniques.
- Demonstrate ability to identify and assess alternative/new sources of data and other information to support core and extended analytical outputs.
- Demonstrate ability to communicate orally convincingly and credibly and in writing results of analysis.
- Demonstrate an ability to explain technical content to a general audience. Communicate with a degree of clarity and efficiency.
Your Team
Technology is an inherent part of enabling the Reserve Bank of Australia's policy and operational objectives. With the country depending upon our systems being secure, highly resilient and efficient, you will work within the Bank's Enterprise Strategy and Change Department and experience the capability-building opportunity to work with Australia's most critical core platforms.
The Reserve Bank of Australia is committed to equity, diversity and inclusion through key initiatives. We welcome and encourage applicants from diverse backgrounds to apply, including Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, culturally and linguistically diverse background, those living with a disability and from the LGBTQ+ community. We are committed to making the recruitment process fair and equitable for all our candidates.
Application Close :
November 06, 2026.
Skills Required
- Deep experience delivering business analysis for large-scale infrastructure transformation and migration programs
- Strong technical business analysis experience and infrastructure domain knowledge
- Experience gathering and documenting complex requirements across multiple systems and domains
- Experience leading backlog refinement, prioritization, grooming, and estimation across multiple workstreams
- Experience assessing dependencies, existing initiatives, delivery constraints, and strategic priorities to identify implementation pathways
- Ability to influence and negotiate with stakeholders to align requirements with organizational objectives and delivery roadmaps
- Experience with business process analysis, future-state design, impact assessments, and solution recommendations
- Experience with agile and waterfall methodologies
- Exceptional interpersonal, collaboration, influencing, and stakeholder-partnering skills
- Strategic thinking, strong attention to detail, curiosity, and accountability
- IIBA Certified Business Analysis Professional (CBAP) certification
- Demonstrated requirements management experience and ability to independently complete business analysis activities and deliverables
- Experience conducting solution evaluation, documenting findings, and making recommendations
- Advanced proficiency in business process modeling, traceability, and quality management techniques
- Ability to identify and assess alternative or new data and information sources for analytical outputs
- Ability to communicate analytical results convincingly and credibly, verbally and in writing
- Ability to explain technical content clearly to general audiences
What We Do
The Reserve Bank of Australia is Australia's central bank. Its duty is to contribute to the maintenance of price stability, full employment, and the economic prosperity and welfare of the Australian people. It does this by setting the cash rate to meet a medium-term inflation target, working to maintain a strong financial system and efficient payments system, and issuing the nation's banknotes. The Bank provides selected banking services to the Australian Government and its agencies, and to a number of overseas central banks and official institutions. Additionally, it manages Australia's gold and foreign exchange reserves
