Senior IT Business Analyst (contract)

Lookahead; Canberra; On-site; AUD 110,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

Lookahead is seeking a Senior Business Analyst to help business areas shape proposals, define outcomes, and navigate the investment pipeline and governance processes. This role spans business, enabling functions and technical specialists to connect strategic intent with practical delivery in Canberra.

You will translate needs, analyse data, facilitate stakeholder discussions, and build strong relationships while delivering under limited guidance.

Qualifications

• 3-5 years experience as a Business Analyst in a program, project or portfolio function, delivering under limited guidance.
• Proven ability to engage stakeholders across business and technical teams to elicit needs and agree priorities.
• Strong facilitation skills, guiding discussions and helping teams land on clear outcomes.
• Skilled at translating between business and technical perspectives so solutions stay fit for purpose.
• Track record supporting capability uplift or process improvement.
• Excellent written and verbal communication, comfortable building trust in complex environments.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with stakeholders and system owners to translate requirements into strategic work packages.
• Collate and analyse data to provide clear, evidence-based options for decision‑making.
• Use process modelling and analysis to define needs and opportunities, focused on business outcomes.
• Guide business areas in shaping proposals through the investment pipeline and governance processes.
• Facilitate prioritisation discussions and help stakeholders weigh trade‑offs.
• Build and maintain strong stakeholder relationships internally and externally.

Skills

Stakeholder engagement

Facilitation skills

Business-technical translation

Data analysis

Process modelling

Job description

The Role

A federal government agency needs a Senior Business Analyst to help business areas shape proposals, define outcomes, and navigate its investment pipeline and governance processes. This is not a purely technical BA role. You'll work across business, enabling functions and technical specialists to connect strategic intent with practical delivery, spanning cloud, infrastructure, endpoint management, automation and collaboration platforms.

Key Duties

• Collaborate with stakeholders and system owners to translate requirements into strategic work packages
• Collate and analyse data to provide clear, evidence-based options for decision‑making
• Use process modelling and analysis to define needs and opportunities, focused on business outcomes
• Guide business areas in shaping proposals through the investment pipeline and governance processes
• Facilitate prioritisation discussions and help stakeholders weigh trade‑offs
• Build and maintain strong stakeholder relationships internally and externally

About You

• 3-5 years experience as a Business Analyst in a program, project or portfolio function, delivering under limited guidance
• Proven ability to engage stakeholders across business and technical teams to elicit needs and agree priorities
• Strong facilitation skills, guiding discussions and helping teams land on clear outcomes
• Skilled at translating between business and technical perspectives so solutions stay fit for purpose
• Track record supporting capability uplift or process improvement
• Excellent written and verbal communication, comfortable building trust in complex environments

Contract Details

This is a contract position based onsite in Canberra, ACT, running from an ASAP start through to 30 June 2027, with a 12 month extension option. Standard hours are up to 40 per week. A Baseline security clearance is required, or you must be able to obtain one.

Applications close by Thursday 27th August.