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Job details

As our Principal Business Analysts, you will:

•  Gather required information and draft intelligence analysis reports and recommendations about improvements to current business systems and processes with particular emphasis on maximising the utility of existing systems.
•  Establish and maintain a deep understanding of the program's business strategy and objectives and of the connections between each unit in the program and the program and Biosecurity Queensland.
•  Plan, manage, and control the activities of a team that provides technical expertise in identifying, evaluating, and developing systems and procedures that are cost effective and that meet business requirements.
•  Undertake and support others in undertaking enterprise analysis, root causeanalysis (e.g. siloed business processes), requirements engineering, and theadoption best practices in business and systems analysis.
•  Establish and maintain networks within the organisation maintain soundawareness of respected contemporary thought in ICT and business analysis and design.
•  Supervise, mentor and manage any staff responsible to this position including workload allocation, performance and development, and ensuring duties are completed efficiently to the required standard within required timeframes.
•  Co-develop improved business overview process and workflow maps and decision trees based on input from business stakeholders.
•  Support managers in facilitating end to end analysis of current systems, structures and processes to pinpoint design problems and/or business architecture fault lines/fractures including but not limited to loops, breaks in process flows, unsupported decision points and bottlenecks and taking into account human and machine inputs into the end-to-end process.
•  Support business stakeholders in perceiving each level of the organisation's business process architecture and model and encourage whole of system thinking so that procedural and process changes are negotiated and managed to deliver improvements on a whole of program level.
•  Support a variety of business transformation, process analysis and redesign activities and plan and deliver related outputs to agreed quality and timelines.
•  Undertake value chain analyses for reporting to business leaders.
•  Gather information about business processes to support senior managers' discussions of current state processes and to support exploration of flow-on impacts of changes to current state arrangements.
•  Gather data from business systems and undertake straight-forward analysis to inform senior managers' deliberations about business performance metrics and possibilities for improvement.
•  Develop and maintain effective relationships with IT system designers to support effective end to end process mapping that includes inputs from staff and outputs from IT systems.
•  Contribute to the development and communication of corporate information strategies, policies, standards and plans to promote best practice in managing and controlling changes to business processes to support efficiency at all levels of the business enterprise.
•  Monitor current and emerging issues relating to trends, best practice, whole-of-government and industry standards relating to requirements analysis and business process management.

Applications to remain current for 12 months.

Job Ad Reference: QLD/689711/26

Closing Date: Friday, 05 June 2026

Further information

We are committed to building inclusive cultures in the Queensland public sector that respect and promote human rights and diversity.

There are two temporary AO7 opportunities available.

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Documents

Before applying for this vacancy please ensure you read the documents below.

• Candidate Information Pack DPI (PDF, 279KB)
  
  
  689711 26 Role Description v2 (Word, 941KB)