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<p></p><h3>Description </h3> <p>We’re a ‘Family Friendly’ certified workplace – we understand the many and varied roles our team members need to play within their own unique family setting and actively support them. </p> <h3>Do Work That Matters </h3> <p>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. </p> <h3>Your New Role and Responsibilities </h3> <p>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. </p> <p>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. The role owns analysis quality, including impact assessments, dependency identification, risk and assumptions management, and definition of non‑functional requirements. </p> <h3>Key Responsibilities </h3> <ul> <li>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. </li> <li>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 and governance routines. </li> <li>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. </li> <li>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. </li> <li>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. </li> </ul> <h3>About You and What You’ll Bring </h3> <ul> <li>Relevant bachelor’s degree (or equivalent experience) and Agile certification. </li> <li>Extensive experience leading requirements in complex technology environments, facilitating stakeholder workshops and governance forums, and coaching embedded analysts/systems engineers. </li> <li>Strong track record producing clear, testable requirements and user stories, running review and approval processes, and maintaining end‑to‑end traceability in Jira. </li> <li>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. </li> <li>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. </li> </ul> <p>Eligibility: This role requires 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. </p> <h3>Equal Opportunity Statement </h3> <p>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. </p> <h3>Benefits </h3> <p>Pay and benefits include competitive compensation, health and wellness programmes, income protection, paid leave and retirement options. </p> <p></p> #J-18808-Ljbffr