Senior Agile Business Analyst

Qantas Airways Limited; Sydney; On-site; AUD 120,000 - 170,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Discounted travel

Flexible leave options

Wellbeing programs

Professional development

Job summary

Qantas Airways Limited in Mascot, NSW, seeks a Senior Agile Business Analyst to translate business strategy into IT and product initiatives, analyse customer journeys, and validate strategic feasibility. You will drive change management, ensure quality delivery, and communicate complex requirements clearly to developers, testers and stakeholders.

You will lead workshops, map journeys, and collaborate with diverse teams, applying agile methods and modern frameworks to deliver tangible business

Qualifications

• 8+ years experience as a Business Analyst in an Agile setting.
• Ability to translate business strategies into IT/product initiatives.
• Experience in leading workshops and shaping user journeys.
• Proven ability to document requirements with clear acceptance criteria.

Responsibilities

• Translate business strategy into IT/product initiatives and roadmaps.
• Analyse customer business strategies, processes and trends.
• Lead workshops and stakeholder reviews to drive change.
• Define features, user journeys and acceptance criteria for delivery.
• Communicate changes effectively to enable successful implementation.

Skills

Agile methods

Stakeholder mgmt

Requirements gathering

User stories

Jira/Confluence

Workshop facilitation

Data analysis

Change management

UX awareness

Education

Tertiary Education

Tools

Jira

Confluence

Job description

• Challenge yourself to transform Customer and Business problems into solutions for Qantas Loyalty
• Take an opportunity to grow and diversify your career
• Permanent role based at our Corporate Campus in Mascot

Working in Qantas Loyalty is exciting and fast moving. We love what we do and look forward to what we might create for the future. Being part of a business that’s constantly changing challenges us to think and move on our feet quickly. Our agile way of working enables us to be responsive to business requirements and helps us to deliver exceptional outcomes. By taking the time to recognise and reward our members, we build stronger relationships with the people who matter most.

The Senior Agile Business Analyst will be responsible for driving the business strategy of business units and translating strategies into IT and product initiatives, analysing customer business strategies and plans, processes and practices as well as industry trends and make recommendations in quantifiable terms on where IT/product changes could produce benefits. With a thorough understanding of business vision and context, the Senior Agile Business Analyst transforms customer and business problems into solutions, and validates the feasibility of the strategic objectives.

Passionate about customer innovation, and with a solid grasp of analytics, the Senior Agile Business Analyst is responsible for identifying and defining improvements to features, customer and user journey mapping, gathering information to make decisions, ensures quality assurance / test solutions and effectively communicates in detail how features and processes work to ensure successful implementation from a change management perspective.

You’ll have:

• 8+ years experience as a Business Analyst and a passion for an agile way of working
• Tertiary Education is a related field
• Strong understanding and use of modern frameworks and their methodologies, including Scrum, Kanban, lean, design thinking, human-centred design, multivariate testing, continuous improvement, test automation and other
• Proven track record in communicating requirements both verbally and through user stories, with logical and clear acceptance criteria, that are easily understood by developers, testers and stakeholders
• Lead the solving of strategic problems that have a high complexity
• Excellent attention to detail
• Proven ability to meet goals and deadlines
• Expert user in collaboration tools such as JIRA and Confluence, etc to document and manage stories and other documentation
• Expert in comparing data sets to deduce accurate insights
• Works with a high degree of autonomy
• Robust stakeholder engagement and management skills
• Leads facilitating workshops, presenting at showcases, leading customer and servicing journey walkthroughs and quality reviews with stakeholders of varying seniority
• Has well rounded technology digital knowledge; application, infrastructure, mobile, UI and UX
• Expert in domain-specific processes and can manage customer expectations
• Must have worked in and have a deep understanding of an Agile environment
• Expert understanding of the Agile framework -including the definition of Epics, user stories, tasks and acceptance criteria
• Results-orientated to meet tight timeframes

Why Qantas?

You’ll join a team where creativity and passion are encouraged. Our people come together to allow us to dream big and deliver successfully. There are many different opportunities across our team, which means you’ll be able to grow both personally and professionally at Qantas. Your development is a priority for us – so that you can maintain the high standards our customers have come to expect and can continue to develop over time. You’ll be supported from day 1 with on the job training and coaching as well as our formal training opportunities. While you may start in this role, we’ve got a great track record of supporting our people to take their career in so many different directions, the destinations are endless.

The Qantas employee benefits program offers amazing benefits that extend well beyond travel:

• We love to travel: Enjoy heavily discounted air travel within Australia and across the globe, both for you and your family and friends, as well as exclusive deals on accommodation and holidays.
• We have flexible leave options: Make use of leave and flexible working opportunities including 18 weeks paid parental leave and the option to purchase additional paid leave for eligible employees.
• We’ll give you access to thousands of rewards: Through our partnerships we can offer you discounts across shopping, food and wine, insurance, health and wellbeing, leisure and entertainment. You can also take advantage of our salary packaging program including motor vehicles, eligible portable electronic devices and professional memberships.
• We’ll support your wellbeing: Whether it’s learning to better support your own and others’ mental health, our interactive wellbeing app or your very own tailored nutrition plan.

Applications Close: 18 September 2026

Qantas is an equal opportunity employer committed to providing a working environment that embraces and values diversity and inclusion. By coming to work for us, you’ll be part of an organisation that encourages diversity, supports charities and environmental initiatives. We encourage Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander, and people of all backgrounds to apply. If you have any support or access requirements, we encourage you to advise us at time of application. Your personal information will be kept confidential in compliance with relevant privacy legislation.