About Laing O’Rourke

Laing O’Rourke is a $6 billion international operation with 70 years of involvement in Australian construction and infrastructure, including nearly two decades under the Laing O’Rourke banner. The business delivers projects as diverse as the environments in which they are built, from high security military bases and major rail transport infrastructure projects, through to landmark buildings at the transport interface. Laing O’Rourke owns Australia’s fourth largest plant and equipment hire company called Select Plant Australia. We know the right culture combined with purposeful technology will help us meet demand and deliver certainty for our clients. That’s the #powerofexperience.

About the Role

Laing O'Rourke is seeking an adaptable and proactive Technical Business Analyst / Project Manager to join our team in Brisbane. This role involves gathering and analysing business requirements, managing stakeholders, and delivering custom application solutions across multiple projects. The ideal candidate will have experience working across business analysis and project management disciplines.

Key Responsibilities
Reporting to the Application Development Manager, your responsibilities will include:

• Identifying and managing stakeholders, facilitating workshops to drive business outcomes.
• Engaging with stakeholders and maintaining relationships with them.
• Collaborating with stakeholders and project teams to conduct feasibility analysis, gather functional and non-functional requirements, and develop user stories.
• Defining and agreeing on project scope at the outset of a project.
• Ensuring solutions are effective, cost-efficient, and align with in-flight projects or existing solutions.
• Supporting UAT processes by addressing stakeholder concerns during testing.
• Contributing to test strategies, test plans, and scripts to ensure solution quality.
• Translating business requirements into functional specifications and user stories.
• Analysing business processes to define current and future state models.
• Facilitating solution rollouts, including training, demos, and change management.
• Assisting in developing business cases and providing input into procurement decisions.
• Product ownership of multiple applications.
• Coordinating releases and managing release cycles.
• Supporting Production Verification Testing (PVT).
• Assisting in the investigation of production issues.
• Collaborating with software development teams and stakeholders to assess priorities of requests.

About You

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Business, or related field, with CBAP, IIBA, or SCRUM certification (desirable).
• Minimum of 8 years' experience as a Technical Business Analyst or System Analyst on technical projects.
• Strong experience in requirements gathering, writing business requirements, and creating user stories with acceptance criteria.
• Hands-on experience with Confluence, Jira, and Agile delivery methodologies.
• Excellent stakeholder engagement and communication skills.
• Ability to manage multiple projects concurrently using Agile, Waterfall, or hybrid approaches.
• Experience in business case development and digital transformation projects.
• Willingness to support testing activities and change management processes.
• Proactive self-starter with strong time management and problem-solving skills.
• Experience in custom application development projects is highly regarded.
• Understanding of the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC).
• Experience in working with software development teams.
• Great communication skills, both spoken and written.

Desirable Skills

• SharePoint and Microsoft PowerApps experience.
• Experience in process analysis (As-Is, To-Be using BPMN).
• Corporate data analysis experience.
• Knowledge of digital transformation initiatives and automation projects.
• MS SQL experience.

Why Join Us
We offer a collaborative work environment, career development opportunities, and comprehensive benefits to support our employees' well-being. If you thrive in dynamic environments, enjoy working on technical projects, and are passionate about delivering business outcomes, we encourage you to apply.

Benefits

We work hard to create an environment that brings out the best in our people. We believe in building careers through providing a safe, connected and innovative culture that supports ongoing growth and development. We offer industry-leading benefits such as specialised learning and development programs, a mental health and wellbeing program, industry leading paid parental leave policy, an additional purchased leave option and coaching programs for staff on parental leave.

Diversity & Inclusion

We are committed to building a workforce that reflects the diverse society in which we live and work. Laing O’Rourke is proud to hold the Workplace Gender Equality Agency (WGEA) Citation - Employer of Choice for Gender Equality.

Laing O'Rourke actively supports a diverse workforce and strongly encourages applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples and people from culturally diverse backgrounds. Download our Stretch Reconciliation Action Plan at

https://www.laingorourke.com/company/diversity-and-inclusion

Applications from recruitment agencies will not be considered.