Business Analyst Lead - Infrastructure

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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 .