Digital Business Analyst

Why Austal

Austal isAustralia's global shipbuilder, Defence prime contractor and maritime technology partner of choice, designing, constructing, and supporting defence and commercial vessels for the world's leading operators. The company operates in Australia, the USA, Philippines, and Vietnam.

Austal Australia is delivering multiple naval shipbuilding and sustainment programs for the Royal Australian Navy, Australian Border Force, and the Department of Defence, employing approximately 1,000 people in facilities in located Western Australia, Queensland, and the Northern Territory.

About the Opportunity

Austal and the Commonwealth of Australia are currently negotiating a landmark Strategic Shipbuilding Agreement (SSA) that will support the Continuous Naval Shipbuilding and Sustainment Enterprise and the delivery of multiple new defence force shipbuilding projects, such as Landing Craft-Medium and Landing Craft-Heavy for the Australian Army.

Once signed, the SSA will drive significant growth across our industry and workforce, as we deliver both existing and new programs under a long-term partnership. It will also enable the design and construction of vessels at our Henderson shipyard and marks a major step forward in establishing enduring shipbuilding capability within the Henderson Defence Precinct and across Western Australia.

To achieve this, we are building a highly skilled team, to engage with local industry and supply chains, and work on complex, large-scale projects that reflect Austal's proven capabilities and trusted performance.

The Digital Shipyard Business Analyst will bridge the gap between Austal Defence's business needs and digital solutions, ensuring that technology initiatives align with strategic objectives. By analysing the shipbuilding value chain and existing processes the Digital Shipyard Business Analyst will identify improvement opportunities and translate these insights into actionable data-driven requirements that inform decision-making and the Digital Shipyard roadmap

What's Involved

• Provide business analysis support to Austal Defence's digital projects by translating stakeholder needs into clear, actionable requirements.
• Collaborate with designers and consultants to ensure solutions align with business objectives and user expectations.
• Maintain comprehensive documentation across digital systems and processes, ensuring traceability from requirements through to deployment.
• Conduct User Acceptance Testing (UAT), ensuring solutions meet acceptance criteria, maintain low defect rates, and resolve critical issues promptly.
• Support Austal Defence's Capability Management Process and contribute to the development of digital business cases.
• Track and report solution performance metrics to guide continuous improvement and proactively identify and mitigate risks.
• Maintain the DSY DevOps environment and manage the product backlog, identifying opportunities for digital enhancements and improvements.

You'll Need

• Tertiary qualification in Business, Information Technology, Computer Science, or a related discipline
• 3+ years experience as Business Analyst in digital IT, or Shipbuilding environments, with a strong track record of successful project delivery
• Demonstrated ability to elicit, analyse, and document business and functional requirements, including user stories, use cases and process maps
• Analytical, a strong ability to analyse data systems, and processes to find optimal solutions
• Experience in ERP, PLM and DevOps Test Plans

Why Austal

• Competitive compensation and benefits package.
• Professional development and training opportunities.
• A supportive and dynamic work environment.
• Opportunities for career advancement within our growing organisation.

Our global team is guided by a universal set of values that describe the focus of our efforts. Our goal is for all our decisions and actions to reflect these core values. We believe that putting our values into practice creates the greatest benefits for our shareholders, customers, employees, suppliers, and communities in which we serve.

Excellence - Customer Focus - Integrity - Team Work

At Austal we are committed to providing a safe and inclusive work environment for all. We believe that achieving greater diversity will enhance our operations and as such we actively encourage Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islanders, people of all backgrounds, ages, sexual orientation, and those with Disability to apply.