Senior Business Analyst
Summary
Contract Senior Business Analyst role on trade & data intelligence work, hybrid in ACT or VIC, for a 4-month engagement at $130–160/hour including super. Requires a current NV1 Australian government security clearance, with a start around 16 November 2026.
Senior Business Analyst - Trade & Data Intelligence
Location: ACT or VIC
Contract: 4 months (16 weeks)
Pay: $130-$160 p/h including super (negotiable)
Work type: Full-time, up to 37.5 hours per week
Work arrangement: Hybrid, with specific arrangements agreed with your supervisor on a case-by-case basis
Clearance: Must hold a current NV1 clearance or above
Start: Around 16 November 2026, subject to candidate availability, onboarding and any applicable notice period
About the Role
This is a focused Senior Business Analyst discovery role with our Federal Government client. You will define the MVP requirements for a secure data and intelligence capability and create the roadmap for what happens next.
The work is deliberately requirements-focused. You will uncover business, data, governance, access and technical enablement needs, validate priorities and turn them into clear decision-ready artefacts. You are not being hired to build the system or lead implementation.
What You'll Be Doing
- Define MVP requirements for a secure data and intelligence capability
- Define business and operational use cases across internal and public-facing needs
- Elicit requirements from investigation, policy, data, governance and technology stakeholders
- Define data, access, security, information management and auditability requirements
- Identify risks, assumptions, constraints, dependencies and decisions
- Validate and prioritise requirements with senior stakeholders
- Produce clear, decision-ready and procurement-ready requirements artefacts
- Develop a practical roadmap for future delivery stages
- You've led senior business analysis, discovery or requirements-definition engagements
- You've produced business, data, reporting, governance, access, functional and non-functional requirements
- You can elicit, analyse, validate, prioritise and document complex requirements
- You've worked across business, data, governance and technical stakeholder groups
- You can turn complex discovery into clear, decision-ready artefacts and roadmaps
- You can manage scope, risks, assumptions and dependencies within a fixed discovery window
- You're an Australian citizen
- You must hold a current NV1 clearance or above
- Experience in trade, customs/import data, market intelligence or supply chain resilience
- Experience defining requirements for secure data environments
- Experience with complex government, trade or market datasets
- Experience in an economic, regulatory, industry or data-intensive Commonwealth environment