Responsibilities
- Lead business user teams, alongside project product owners, to effectively understand where and how business value is created through current and required business capabilities and functionality, in order to determine change requirements for future business processes, information and system requirements
- Perform full spectrum business analysis on the company's business & systems requirements in terms of API's, systems, workflow, user interfaces, business rules and data - for conversion into relevant capability and system specifications
- Appropriately design and specify new or enhanced system development to provide effective IT solutions
- Collaborate with architects, DevOps, developers, integrations, and data teams to determine and specify the best fit solution in line with current technology and architecture best practices
- Be creative and pro-active: ask "why", think laterally, and understand the need and problem before designing a solution; apply a relentless focus on value, and put forward alternate solutions to business needs
- Communicate clearly and accurately in written and presented specifications
- Form solid relationships with key business stakeholders
- Generate design documents of high quality; understandable by testing and development team, as well as usable throughout the SDLC process to completion of the deployment
- Matric and preferably BCom in Information Systems or other high quality tertiary education certificate, diploma, or degree
- Minimum of 10 years of relevant experience pertaining to business analysis, in an IT agile software development environment.
- API Development and/or testing experience preferred
- Financial services industry experience preferred
- Must have a high level of IT systems and technical awareness, to leverage technology to provide business solutions
- Domain knowledge - the company's business model, business rules, processes and products
- Ability to communicate in a precise, structured, technical realm
- Understand and work comfortably within various SDLC methodologies
- Ability to play the role of a facilitative leader
- An energetic, pro-active and positive attitude is key - BA's are not 'micro-managed'
- Excellent communications skills, willingness to drive and embrace change, self- motivated accountability and problem ownership,
- Ability to work within a team and as an individual,
- Embrace and adopt technology tools and protocols, with an enthusiasm for, and interest in IT technology
- Lateral thinking and problem-solving skills: ability to seek and find alternative options and solutions
- Excellent people skills: e.g. Facilitation - the art of leading people through processes to agreed objectives, in a structured manner designed to deliver participation, ownership and creativity
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Desired Skills
- API Development and/or testing experience preferred
- Financial services industry experience preferred
- Understand and work comfortably within various SDLC methodologies
- experience pertaining to business analysis in an IT agile software development environment
- More than 10 years Business Analysis
- Diploma
