Business Analyst Lead
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Leidos Australia delivers IT and airborne solutions that protect and advance the Australian way of life. Our 2000 local experts, backed by our global experience and network of partners, are working to solve the world’s toughest challenges in government, intelligence, defence, aviation, border protection and health markets.
Your New Role and Responsibilities
The Lead Business Analyst is accountable for leading end-to-end requirements management for the project. This role is the primary owner of the requirements lifecycle, ensuring business, operational and technical needs are captured from internal and external stakeholders, analysed, documented, approved, traceable and verifiable throughout delivery.
This role aims to pivot from the traditional Systems Engineering style in the project to a more streamlined Business Analysis approach while still meeting assurance and audit expectations. Requirements are managed primarily through Jira (epics, features and user stories), with clear approval, change control and traceability practices that support acceptance outcomes. The team also includes a customer end-user representative/champion embedded within delivery, whom the Business Analyst will work closely with for review and acceptance.
Success in the role requires strong partnership with the Engineering Lead, Testing Manager, Information Security, Configuration Management and Release Management to ensure requirements are implementable, unambiguous and aligned to solution intent. Leading a team of systems engineers embedded in delivery teams, the role ensures consistency of analysis activities, and that Jira provides a single source of truth for requirements maintenance. The role owns analysis quality, including impact assessments, dependency identification, risk and assumptions management, and definition of non-functional requirements.
Key Responsibilities
Stakeholder discovery, validation and user story capture: Lead structured discovery with internal squads, customer and external stakeholders to capture and validate requirements in Jira as epics, features and user stories with clear acceptance criteria, shared understanding of objectives, scope, outcomes and traceability to testing and FPS.
End-to-end requirements lifecycle and governance: Own the full lifecycle from elicitation through analysis, documentation, review, approval, change control and closure; define and implement streamlined requirements practices including templates, quality criteria, definition of ready, peer review, approval pathways and governance routines.
Change control, baseline protection and quality management: Assess requirement changes for impact, risk, cost/schedule and compliance; integrate with configuration and release/change governance, maintain controlled baselines, and ensure requirements are clear, unambiguous, testable, feasible and peer reviewed.
Analysis depth, NFRs and impact assessment: Perform and document impact analysis across people, process, data, integrations, security controls, environments and operations; identify risks, assumptions and constraints, and elicit, define and maintain measurable, testable non-functional requirements.
Leadership, backlog shaping and continuous improvement: Lead and coach embedded systems engineers to ensure consistent analysis standards; partner with Engineering and stakeholders on intake, prioritisation and backlog shaping, while monitoring requirements throughput and quality to improve delivery predictability and assurance outcomes.
About You and What You'll Bring
Relevant bachelor’s degree (or equivalent experience) and Agile certification
Extensive experience leading requirements in complex technology environments, facilitating stakeholder workshops and governance forums, and coaching embedded analysts/systems engineers.
Strong track record producing clear, testable requirements and user stories, running review and approval processes, and maintaining end-to-end traceability in Jira.
Proven impact analysis across systems, data, processes, operations and security; effective management of risks, assumptions and dependencies; and definition of measurable, testable non-functional requirements.
Experience in defence or regulated environments, modernising legacy requirements approaches, aligning with architecture/design authority, applying Australian cyber frameworks, and working in formal configuration-managed settings.
This role does require the successful applicant to be an Australian Citizen and hold a minimum NV-1 level security clearance and be willing to uplift to NV-2.
Diverse Team Members, Shared Values and a Common Purpose
Providing our customers with smarter solutions takes an incredible team with diversity of thought, experience and perspectives driving innovation. Inclusion is at the heart of our culture and is one of our core values. It's about creating a workplace where everyone can do important work, feels welcome, valued, and respected, and has equal access to opportunities to thrive. Paul Chase - Chief Executive, Leidos Australia.
Leidos Australia is an equal opportunities organisation and is committed to creating a truly inclusive workplace. We welcome and encourage applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders, culturally and linguistically diverse people, people with disabilities, veterans, neurodiverse people, and people of all genders, sexualities, and age groups.
Our five Advocacy Groups (Women and Allies Network, Young Professionals, Defence & Emergency Services, Action for Accessibility and Abilities and Pride+) provide an opportunity for team members to connect and collaborate on shared interests, and work to support and celebrate our diverse community.
Next Steps
To apply for this role, follow the links or apply via our Careers page.
Recruitment process - virtual / face to face interview & background checks.
Applicants may also need to meet International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR) requirements. In certain circumstances this can place limitations on persons who hold dual nationality, permanent residency or are former nationals of certain countries as per ITAR 126.1.
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Original Posting:
For U.S. Positions: While subject to change based on business needs, Leidos reasonably anticipates that this job requisition will remain open for at least 3 days with an anticipated close date of no earlier than 3 days after the original posting date as listed above.
Pay Range:
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