Business Analyst Lead

Location – Parramatta – 50% Hybrid

Employment type – Ongoing – Full-time

Salary – Clerk Grade 11/12 $154,231- $178,369 plus employer’s contribution to superannuation and annual leave loading

Your role

Lead complex business analysis for the Maintenance Application, related Salesforce applications and supporting integrations across the product and delivery lifecycle. Working with the Product Manager and Business Product Owner, the role shapes pipeline initiatives and business cases, translates strategic, customer, policy and operational needs into evidence-based outcomes, options, processes, requirements, user stories, acceptance criteria, and collaborates with business, delivery and vendor technical teams to achieve fit-for-purpose solutions. The role provides authoritative business analysis advice and assurance, maintains requirements quality and traceability, and strengthens business analysis practices across the product team.

What you’ll do

• Lead end-to-end business analysis across complex digital, data and service improvement initiatives.
• Set fit-for-purpose analysis approaches, stakeholder engagement, governance and quality controls.
• Investigate current-state processes and business problems using operational data and customer evidence.
• Elicit, prioritise and manage functional and non-functional requirements, user stories and acceptance criteria.
• Design and assure future-state processes and service models with business and technology specialists.
• Facilitate difficult decisions, resolve competing requirements and provide credible options and recommendations.
• Assure requirements traceability, solution alignment and business readiness throughout delivery.
• Lead business analysis methods, standards, peer review, coaching and practice improvement.

What we’re looking for

• Expertise in business situation analysis, process improvement, requirements lifecycle management and traceability.
• Ability to resolve ambiguous problems and conflicting stakeholder priorities through evidence-based advice.
• Experience in collaborating with architects, Salesforce or integration vendors, testers and operational teams.
• Demonstrated ability to uplift analysis quality and guide analysts and delivery partners.

Essential requirements

• Tertiary qualifications in business analysis, information technology, business or a related discipline, or equivalent relevant knowledge, skills and experience, with a demonstrated commitment to ongoing professional development.

Desirable Requirements

• Experience with Salesforce, enterprise platforms and systems integration.
• Experience working across agile, waterfall and hybrid delivery environments.
• Business analysis certification or professional association membership.

Download the role description.

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We focus on hiring people who share our commitment and goals of inclusion, collaboration, adaptability, courage and integrity. If you meet the essential requirements and the role resonates with you, please apply – you do not need to meet every desired requirement for us to want to talk to you.

What We Offer

We offer a variety of benefits, including:

• A challenging and rewarding career

• Flexible, autonomous work environment

• Competitive pay and conditions

• Training and development opportunities to build and maintain capabilities

• Health & Wellbeing and Employee Assistance Programs.

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We do work that really matters

Working for the Department of Communities and Justice (DCJ) provides lots of opportunities to make a real difference. We collaborate with other agencies and community partners, to improve lives and realise the potential of children, adults, families and communities. We're focused on breaking, rather than managing, disadvantage. It’s work that really matters.

Apply now and join Australia’s top public sector employer where we will support you and provide an exciting and flexible working environment!

Are you ready to join us?

Click apply, attach an up-to-date résumé (maximum 5 pages) and a cover letter (maximum 3 pages) addressing the 2 targeted questions below with a brief outline on how you meet the requirements of the role:

• Describe your experience relevant to this role, including the scale and complexity of the digital, technology or business change environment, your responsibilities and the outcomes achieved.
• Describe a situation where you managed challenging stakeholders, delivery partners or competing priorities. How did you influence the outcome?

Applications close 20 November 2026 at 11:59pm AEST.

Got a question?

For more information about the role or what it’s like to work for DCJ, please contact the hiring manager Raymond Brown on 0422453355 or at Raymond.Brown@homes.nsw.gov.au

If you’ve got a question about applying or would benefit from an adjustment in the recruitment process to help you perform at your best (including an alternate method submission of the application), please call Meryl Georges on 8688 7252 or via meryl.georges@dcj.nsw.gov.au

Visit Recruitment adjustments on the DCJ website to learn more.

Inclusion and Diversity lies at the heart of how we recruit

We continue to hire great people with a wide variety of skills, experience and backgrounds. This includes people with disability, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander People, women, people identifying as LGBTIQ+, culturally and linguistically diverse people, carers and other diversity groups.

To find out what DCJ are doing to build an inclusive and diverse workforce, visit Inclusion and diversity on the DCJ website.

Other Information

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