Senior Technical Business Analyst

Professional Search Group (PSG)are seeking an experienced Senior Technical Business Analyst to support a major government technology transformation program delivering new digital platforms across Western Australia.

The role will support a Cloud Hosting and Infrastructure project responsible for enhancing enterprise cloud environments and associated ICT services.

Key Info:

• Must be Perth, WA based.
• Contract
• Proposed start date: 30/11/26
• End date: 30/06/27 (with 3 further extensions or 6 months each, potentially up to 31/12/28

Key Responsibilities

• Elicit, analyse, document and validate technical and non-functional requirements across Azure and AWS environments.
• Analyse cloud hosting requirements covering availability, performance, capacity, resilience, disaster recovery, monitoring and supportability.
• Gather and document network connectivity and infrastructure integration requirements.
• Analyse Microsoft Entra ID and IAM requirements, including authentication, authorisation, identity lifecycle, privileged access and role-based access controls.
• Interpret technical architecture, infrastructure designs and service documentation to identify gaps, dependencies and constraints.
• Develop technical requirements catalogues, system context diagrams, interface documentation and information flows.
• Identify relevant security, privacy, compliance and government policy obligations.
• Facilitate technical workshops with architecture, cyber security, infrastructure, networking and service delivery teams.
• Develop acceptance criteria, requirements traceability matrices, options papers and Statements of Work.
• Maintain project documentation, risks, issues, decisions and dependencies, providing regular progress updates.

Skills & Experience

• Extensive experience as a Senior Technical Business Analyst within complex ICT infrastructure or technology transformation projects.
• Strong technical analysis experience across Microsoft Azure and AWS cloud environments.
• Experience analysing enterprise networking, connectivity and infrastructure requirements.
• Strong understanding of Microsoft Entra ID, Identity and Access Management, authentication, authorisation and privileged access.
• Proven ability to interpret technical architecture and infrastructure documentation and translate it into clear, testable requirements.
• Experience documenting non-functional requirements covering performance, availability, security, resilience and operational supportability.
• Strong analytical skills, including requirements traceability, technical documentation and options analysis.
• Excellent stakeholder engagement and workshop facilitation skills across technical and project teams.
• Experience working in complex, governed environments involving multiple technology vendors and service providers.

Desirable:

• Previous experience within State or Federal Government ICT projects.
• Experience preparing Statements of Work and procurement documentation.
• PRINCE2, BABOK or equivalent business analysis framework knowledge.

Important

This is not a traditional functional Business Analyst role. We are specifically seeking a technically focused BA with hands-on experience analysing cloud infrastructure, networking, IAM and enterprise ICT environments.

The role is focused on technical requirements analysis, not solution architecture, engineering or implementation.