HYBRID / Midrand, Johannesburg
Our client, a global company whose developer capability is in South Africa, is looking for an Senior Level Business Analyst to join their team who focuses on development and operations for cloud-native enterprise applications.
ESSENTIAL Skills Requirements:
Minimum5+ years Business Analyst experience
Minimum10+ years IT/systems experience.
- Business analyst
- Responsibility, activator, achiever, self-starter, someone who takes initiative, goes the extra mile, and can drive themselves in unfamiliar territory.
- Excellent understanding of Agile Working principles.
- Ability to write specifications for high level concepts into meaningful information from which user stories can be created.
- Ability to absorb complex business knowledge and transfer that to the developers.
- Good relationship building and Team player skills.
- Leadership skills.
- Strong technical background.
- Development background especially in Java and AWS.
- Experience in software testing.
- Project management skills.
- Fluent in German (speaking and writing)
- Working closely with an architect and product owners to take responsibility for a successful re-engineering of a major production critical application.
- Write specifications for high level concepts into meaningful information from which user stories can be created.
- Deeply understand complex business concepts and then explain these to developers in simple ways. Be a source of truth for business related queries by the developers. Be a link between business in Europe and developers in South Africa.
- Understanding the business needs in a complex environment with multiple applications and interfaces that are all related.
- Active involvement in sprint refinements to influence the creation of efficient user stories. Also creating user stories themselves with DOR and DOD.
- Responsible for working closely together with the Product Owners to ensure a prioritised backlog with good quality user stories.
- Understanding of systems engineering concepts and managing business processes.
- Implement advanced strategies for gathering, reviewing, and analysing functional requirements
- Additional tasks such as performing POCs and creating mock-ups.
- User acceptance/business testing (also technical testing).
- Strong working knowledge in data tools, techniques and approaches used in application solutions.
- Pro-active knowledge sharing, mentoring, and coaching of members from the same or other teams.
- Relevant Engineering/IT/Business Degree
- 5+ years Business Analyst experience
- 10+ years IT/systems experience.
- Experience in writing specifications and user stories and gaining deep business knowledge understanding.
- Cutting edge global IT system landscape and processes
- Flexible working of 1960 hours in a 12-month period
- High Work-Life balance
- Remote / On-site work location flexibility
- Highly motivating, energetic, and fast-paced working environment
- Modern, state-of-the-art offices
- Dynamic Global Team collaboration
- Application of the Agile Working Model Methodology
