Drew Salem
Technical business analysis · Gold Coast · Brisbane

Senior Technical Business Analyst on the Gold Coast, working across Brisbane and Australia.

I'm available for contract Senior Technical Business Analyst roles, on site in Brisbane and the Gold Coast, across Australia, or remotely. I bring 25+ years across energy, oil and gas, defence logistics, government, manufacturing and e-commerce, starting as a database and integration developer, then integration architect and technology leader.

What I do

Technical business analysis capabilities

Discovery

Stakeholder workshops and interviews to understand the problem, the people and the systems before anything is designed.

Requirements and traceability

Requirements elicitation, user stories and traceability from need to tested outcome, through UAT.

Process and decision models

Current and future-state process models (BPMN), business rules and decision models.

Data and integration

Data flow and system interaction diagrams, integration design and data migration.

Solution design and evaluation

Solution design, and platform and vendor evaluation.

Delivery assurance and business cases

Delivery assurance and business cases, in Agile and traditional programmes.

Tools and platforms

Tools and platforms I work with

Data and reporting: SQL Server, Oracle, Snowflake, Databricks, Power BI, SAS.

Enterprise platforms: SAP, Oracle e-Business Suite (eAMS), WellView, Dynamics CRM, GIS.

Cloud and integration: AWS (Amazon S3), Microsoft Azure, Dell Boomi, SSIS.

Delivery: Jira, Confluence.

AI: Claude Code, LLMs, RAG, AI agents, machine learning.

Development: .NET, JavaScript, React, Android and iOS.

Selected engagements

Selected Technical Business Analyst engagements

Origin Energy · APLNG · 2024 – now

Senior Technical Business Analyst, contract

Well Integrity Management System discovery and requirements, then an AI-DLC rebuild of the application now in production. WellView SaaS upgrade with integration repointing. Oracle eAMS migration of 3M+ attachments to Amazon S3. A machine learning well-analogue proof of concept, and SLB subsurface infrastructure evaluation.

More on this work
Depth Defence Logistics · 2023

Senior Consultant, Data & Technology

DISP accreditation uplift, and migration of Azure services to Australian sovereign hosting.

Lite n' Easy · 2016 – 2019

Head of IT Development

Applications, infrastructure and data for 1.6 million customers and 100,000+ weekly orders, including a CMS-based e-commerce platform and an Android delivery system for 350+ drivers.

Arrow Energy · Shell & PetroChina JV · 2010 – 2015

Senior Data Integration and Reporting Lead

Enterprise Data Hub integrating SAP, GIS, SCADA, CRM, HR and Finance. Chaired the Data Management Community of Practice.

Business analysis and AI

Where business analysis meets AI-driven development

With the AI-Driven Development Lifecycle (AI-DLC), an open-source method published by AWS, the AI carries every stage from requirements to tested software while the organisation's people direct it and make every decision. The requirements, rules and sign-off still have to be right, which is a business analyst's job.

I created the Instant Framework, a free playbook for doing this safely in an enterprise. How the AI-DLC works.

Contact

Discuss a contract Technical Business Analyst role

Tell me about the programme and the role, and I'll come back to you to arrange a time to talk.