Senior Cyber Security BA - Hybrid, NV1 Clearance

Effective People; Canberra; Hybrid; AUD 138,000 - 179,000; Full time

Job summary

Effective People is seeking an APS6 Business Analyst specialized in Cyber Security to join a federal government client. The role focuses on cyber resilience, security remediation and compliance initiatives within a large ICT environment, operating across multiple workstreams to unite business and technical stakeholders.

You will lead requirements elicitation, manage trade-offs, and ensure traceability, while applying PSPF/ISM/Essential Eight security frameworks.

Qualifications

• Delivered cyber resilience, security remediation or compliance initiatives in a large ICT environment.
• Led complex business analysis covering elicitation, requirements management, process modelling, traceability and delivery support.
• Applied cyber security frameworks and standards such as PSPF, ISM, Essential Eight or other relevant security and risk frameworks.
• Managed competing requirements and ensured they are clear, testable and traceable.
• Able to work effectively with senior executives, technical specialists, business representatives and external providers.
• Able to produce clear analysis artefacts supporting scope, risk, testing and implementation decisions.
• You're an Australian citizen
• You must hold a current NV1 clearance or above.

Responsibilities

• Lead complex requirements elicitation and adapt your approach when information is incomplete or stakeholders disagree.
• Manage requirements from discovery through prioritisation, testability, scope and change.
• Build As-Is and To-Be process models, detailed user stories, data flow diagrams, use cases and test cases.
• Define the business analysis approach and deliverables for medium-complexity initiatives.
• Conduct current-state analysis and identify improvement opportunities.
• Work with senior executives, technical specialists, business teams and external providers.
• Identify cross-functional dependencies, sequencing risks and practical implementation phases.
• Analyse risks, change requests and design decisions and prepare recommendations.
• Coordinate quality assurance, verification, validation and defect prioritisation.
• Apply cyber security policies, standards and frameworks to analysis and delivery decisions.

Skills

Cyber security

Business analysis

Requirements elicitation

Traceability

Stakeholder management

Agile

Risk analysis

Job description

Effective People is seeking an APS6 Business Analyst specialized in Cyber Security to join a federal government client. The role focuses on cyber resilience, security remediation and compliance initiatives within a large ICT environment, operating across multiple workstreams to unite business and technical stakeholders.

You will lead requirements elicitation, manage trade-offs, and ensure traceability, while applying PSPF/ISM/Essential Eight security frameworks.