Senior Business Analyst: AI-Driven Delivery & Specs

Talent; Sydney; On-site; AUD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Talent in Sydney seeks a Senior Business Analyst with deep Agile experience and practical exposure to AI-assisted software delivery. You will collaborate with Product Owners, Solution Architects, Developers and Testers to review current practices and design workflows that embed AI agent execution.

The role emphasizes improving how requirements are written, handed over, tested and traced through to implementation.

Qualifications

• 5+ years as Senior BA or Systems BA in enterprise Agile environments.
• Strong As-Is/To-Be process mapping and value stream mapping.
• Hands-on familiarity with agentic development tools (Claude Code, SpecKit, Atlassian Rovo, GitHub Copilot).
• Understanding of spec-driven delivery, prompt design, and LLM context limits.
• Experience defining detailed requirements, acceptance criteria and traceability.

Responsibilities

• Map current squad processes, identify delivery bottlenecks and design improved workflows that incorporate AI agent execution.
• Establish standards for structured, machine-readable requirements and specification files (e.g., Spec.md).
• Break down business requirements into clearly defined tasks with BDD/Gherkin scenarios and acceptance criteria.
• Maintain traceability between business objectives, specs, unit tests and PR validation checks.
• Define validation checkpoints and scenario matrices to identify missing requirements or incorrect AI-generated logic before implementation.
• Collaborate with technical leads to ensure alignment with API contracts, architecture decisions and quality standards.
• Support pilot squads on new applications and existing systems.
• Measure improvements in hand-off times, spec accuracy and clarification needs during sprints.
• Develop reusable templates and contribute to a central Agentic Centre of Excellence.

Skills

Process mapping

Value stream mapping

BDD/Gherkin

AI tooling

Requirements traceability

Tools

Claude Code

SpecKit

Atlassian Rovo

GitHub Copilot

Job description

Talent in Sydney seeks a Senior Business Analyst with deep Agile experience and practical exposure to AI-assisted software delivery. You will collaborate with Product Owners, Solution Architects, Developers and Testers to review current practices and design workflows that embed AI agent execution.

The role emphasizes improving how requirements are written, handed over, tested and traced through to implementation.