Senior BA Practice Lead – Government & Legacy Systems

Profectus; Canberra; On-site; AUD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Profectus is seeking an experienced Business Analysis Practice Lead to guide the BA program for a registry modernisation initiative within an Australian Government agency. The role covers business and product analysis across 20+ projects, including reverse-engineering legacy rules from ADABAS/Natural mainframe and Siebel CRM.

You will ensure BA standards, lead analysts, manage complex requirements, and maintain legislative traceability across the program, building the agency's BA capability.

Qualifications

• 10+ years in business analysis.
• Leading BA teams or practices.
• Requirements elicitation, process modelling and business rules analysis.
• Agile and hybrid requirements approaches, including user stories and acceptance criteria.
• Large government or regulated technology programs.
• Facilitation and coaching.
• Reverse-engineering legacy business logic, including mainframe.
• Registry, licensing or regulatory programs.
• CBAP, IIBA or equivalent certification.

Responsibilities

• Lead the BA practice, including standards, methods, templates and quality across the program.
• Lead analysts across projects and assure the quality of requirements and business rules.
• Elaborate complex requirements with product managers, designers, engineers and stakeholders.
• Reverse-engineer business rules from legacy systems into clear, testable specifications.
• Maintain traceability from legislation and policy to requirements and acceptance criteria.
• Facilitate workshops with business, policy and legal stakeholders.
• Make sure legislative assumptions are identified and approved before implementation.
• Establish and lead a BA community of practice for agency and partner analysts.
• Coach and mentor agency analysts and leave reusable BA artefacts and playbooks.

Skills

Leading BA teams

Requirements elicitation

Process modelling

Business rules analysis

Agile and hybrid approaches

Facilitation and coaching

Reverse‑engineering legacy logic

Dynamics 365

OutSystems

Regulatory programs

Education

CBAP / IIBA certification

Tools

Dynamics 365

OutSystems

Job description

Profectus is seeking an experienced Business Analysis Practice Lead to guide the BA program for a registry modernisation initiative within an Australian Government agency. The role covers business and product analysis across 20+ projects, including reverse-engineering legacy rules from ADABAS/Natural mainframe and Siebel CRM.

You will ensure BA standards, lead analysts, manage complex requirements, and maintain legislative traceability across the program, building the agency's BA capability.