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This role focuses on leading the requirements management function, ensuring that requirements are accurately captured, maintained, and aligned with business objectives. The Requirements Lead will engage with various stakeholders to elicit and document requirements while overseeing a team of business analysts to enhance practices in requirements governance.
Job Description
Key Responsibilities:
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Requirements Governance & Frameworks
- Define and maintain requirements management standards, processes, and templates.
- Ensure consistency, quality, and traceability of requirements across all initiatives.
- Establish and enforce governance for requirements sign-off and change control.
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Stakeholder Engagement & Analysis
- Engage business stakeholders to elicit, document, and validate requirements.
- Facilitate workshops, interviews, and requirement gathering sessions.
- Act as a bridge between business users, project managers, architects, and developers.
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Requirements Planning & Prioritisation
- Define requirements management plans for projects and programs.
- Ensure requirements are prioritised based on business value, risk, and dependencies.
- Manage scope by controlling requirement changes and assessing impacts.
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Requirements Documentation & Traceability
- Oversee the production of Business Requirements Documents (BRD), Functional Specifications, and User Stories.
- Ensure full requirements traceability from business objectives through to test cases.
- Monitor adherence to agreed requirements throughout the solution lifecycle.
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Team Leadership & Capability Development
- Manage and mentor a team of business analysts.
- Provide training and guidance on best practices in requirements engineering.
- Build capability in agile and hybrid delivery methods for requirements management.
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Quality Assurance & Continuous Improvement
- Conduct quality reviews of requirements deliverables.
- Capture and apply lessons learned to improve requirements management practices.
- Drive adoption of tools and automation for requirements management (e.g., Jira, Confluence).
Qualifications:
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Education and Experience
- Bachelor’s degree in Business, Information Systems, or related field.
- 8+ years’ experience in business analysis and requirements management.
- At least 3+ years in a leadership or management role.
- Proven experience managing requirements for large, complex programs.
- Certifications in Business Analysis highly desirable.
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Key Skills & Competencies
- Strong leadership and people management skills.
- Expertise in requirements elicitation, analysis, documentation, and validation.
- Excellent stakeholder management and facilitation abilities.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
- Proficiency with requirements management tools (e.g., Jira, Confluence).
- Familiarity with Agile, Waterfall, and hybrid delivery methods.
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Personal Attributes
- Detail-oriented and structured thinker.
- Strong communicator, able to bridge business and technical audiences.
- Collaborative and team-oriented.
- Resilient, adaptable, and comfortable managing ambiguity.
- Results-driven with a commitment to delivering business value.
At the company, we believe strong connections and community are key to our success. Our work model prioritizes in-person collaboration while offering flexibility to support wellbeing, productivity, individual work styles, and life circumstances. We’re committed to fostering an inclusive environment where everyone can thrive.
