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Description
Leidos Australia delivers IT and airborne solutions that protect and advance the Australian way of life. We are looking for a Lead Business Analyst to own the end‐to‐end requirements management lifecycle.
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. The role works closely with stakeholders and embedded customer representatives to review and accept deliverables.
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.
* 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.
* Must be an Australian Citizen and hold a minimum NV‐1 level security clearance, willing to uplift to NV‐2.
Pay and Benefits
The Leidos pay range for this job level is a general guideline and not a guarantee of compensation or salary. Employment benefits include competitive compensation, Health and Wellness programs, Income Protection, Paid Leave and Retirement.
Commitment to Non-Discrimination
All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex, race, ethnicity, age, national origin, citizenship, religion, physical or mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, pregnancy, family structure, marital status, ancestry, domestic partner status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, veteran or military status, or any other basis prohibited by law. Leidos will also consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories consistent with relevant laws.
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