Business Analyst – Australian Secret Intelligence Service
📌 Vacancy Fact Sheet
- Reference Number: VN-0770556
- Agency: Australian Secret Intelligence Service
- Job Title: Business Analyst
- Position Number: .
- Classification: Executive Level 1
- Closing Date: Monday 13 July 2026
- Job Type: Full-Time, Ongoing
- Location: Canberra ACT
- Future Merit Locations: Canberra
- Salary: $145,137 – $169,572
- Office Arrangement: On Site (Canberra office based)
About Australian Secret Intelligence Service
ASIS is Australia’s overseas secret intelligence collection agency. Its mission is to protect and promote Australia’s vital interests
through the provision of intelligence services as directed by the Government. Its work can involve collecting intelligence relating to
national security, international relations and economic issues. It also contributes to Australia’s coordinated national efforts against
terrorism, proliferation of weapons of mass destruction, and trans-national issues such as people smuggling.
Duties
- Role responsibilities
- Analyse and model business processes and identify opportunities for improvement.
- Develop comprehensive business process models, roadmaps, and implementation plans,
- ensuring that proposed improvements are well-understood and communicated with
- stakeholders.
- Independently gather and document requirements: Elicit and record the needs of
- stakeholders, translating them into clear specifications for development teams.
- Collaborate with a broad range of technical and non-technical specialists, including:
- Business stakeholders to identify their business needs and liaise between technical
- teams, to ensure clear communication and understanding.
- Data analysts and data scientists to leverage data and analytics for process
- improvement and informed decision-making.
- Project team members, such as product owners, change managers, architects,
- developers, database administrators, testers and trainers to ensure delivered solutions
- align with organisational and business objectives.
- Conduct current and future state analysis, create process diagrams, requirements (Epics,
- features, user stories and non-functional requirements), data models and wireframes to
- visualize potential solutions, using industry standard techniques.
- Coach junior Business Analysts and contribute to the Business Analyst professional stream,
- including the development of frameworks, templates and methodologies.
- Core skills
- We encourage applicants with the following skills and attributes to apply:
- The ability to apply analytical thinking and structured Business Analysis methodologies to
- complex business problems.
- Demonstrated ability to identify the right techniques to investigate, analyse and propose
- solutions
- Ability to confidently elicit and define epics, user stories & acceptance criteria following best
- practice principles as well as identifying and defining non-functional requirements (NFR).
- Exceptional communication skills and ability to facilitate interviews, workshops and engage
- with a wide variety of stakeholders.
- Ability to apply and monitor appropriate use of modelling and analysis tools, methods and
- standards (e.g. BPMN 2.0) to successfully document business processes and requirements.
- Ability and experience in the application of user centred design principles and tools including
- personas, service blueprints and journey maps to ensure technology investments meet user
- requirements and align with business goals and strategic objectives.
- Education and qualification requirements
- The following education, qualifications and/or experience will be highly regarded:
- Qualifications in one or more of the relevant fields: Information Technology, Computer
- Science, Business Information Systems, Business Analytics, Science or related field.
- Knowledge of the Business Analysis Body of Knowledge (BABOK)
- Membership of the IIBA.
Eligibility / Notes
- To be eligible for a role you must:
- · Be an Australian citizen
- · Be assessed as suitable to hold and maintain a TOP SECRET-Privileged Access security
- clearance
- · For more information on eligibility please see the Protective Security Policy Framework which
- is publicly accessible at protectivesecurity.gov.au, section 12 provides information on Eligibility
- and suitability
How to Apply
Position Contact Not provided, Not provided
Agency Recruitment Site https://www.asis.gov.au/Careers/Current-Vacancies/
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