Business Analyst - Intermediate to Senior - Contract

Business Analyst - Intermediate to Senior - Contract

Overview
Reference: PDG2000483076PDG3784
Salary: ZAR500 - ZAR520/hour
Location: South Africa -- Johannesburg Metro -- Sandton
Job Type: Contract
Posted: 24 April 2024
Closing date: 09 May 2024 23:59

Our Client, a Global Tech firm, is seeking a Business Analyst - Intermediate to Senior to join their team in Sandton on a contract basis. They offer stability, growth, attractive rates, and a great working environment.

The Senior Business Analyst's key function is to work with internal and external clients to determine requirements and define solutions to address complex business, process, and systems problems, and improvements in the organisation. They act as a liaison among stakeholders to understand the structure, policies, and operations of an organisation, and recommend solutions that enable the organisation to achieve its goals.

Key Roles and Responsibilities:

• Conduct iterative and adaptive planning and monitoring tasks to estimate, organize, and coordinate the BA efforts on large/complex enterprise initiatives.
• Conduct elicitation and collaboration tasks to obtain information from stakeholders.
• Conduct requirements analysis and design definition to structure, organize, specify, and model requirements and designs.
• Conduct Requirements Life Cycle Management tasks to manage and maintain requirements and design information from inception to retirement.
• Conduct strategy analysis to define the future and transition states needed to address the business need and the scope of the solution.
• Conduct Solution Evaluation to assess the performance of and value delivered by a solution, and eliminate barriers/constraints that prevent the full realization of the value.
• Execute according to IIBA best practices, agile product delivery, and lean principles based on delivery approach as per the BA methods, frameworks, standards, tools, techniques, competencies, and practices.
• Analyse and document requirements based on changes to users, interfaces, processes, data flows, constraints, environments, and non-functional requirements.
• Understand the portfolio's strategic themes, product roadmap, vision, KPIs, and metrics, and align requirements accordingly.
• Explore and articulate the opportunity/problem to be solved and identify stakeholder wants and needs and participate to define the proposed solution.
• Use visual diagrams and collaborative games to model scope, interfaces, story context, data flows, processes, retrospectives, and dependencies across projects.
• Decompose and document epics, features, themes, hypothesis statements, PI objectives, and user stories by identifying gaps, missing stories, and acceptance criteria.
• Own decomposition of portfolio epics, features, elicitation, analysis, story writing, and acceptance criteria writing throughout the requirements value chain.
• Collaborate/co-create process and capability alignment by pairing with the PE and Business Architect.
• Support the team in working on impediments and spikes and enabler epics, enabler stories, and synthesize the data to articulate requirements.
• Work with development/QA to identify test cases/scenarios, conduct user acceptance testing, and train the trainer/user and support change management commercialization.
• Conduct/participate in Backlog Refinement, prioritization, WSJF, and increment planning and drive DevOps and Built-in quality principles.
• Analyse/document data requirements and model data flows through all seven product dimensions on a solution/program level by pairing with BDMs.
• Foster stakeholder relationships and engagement for discovery and delivery, backlog refinement, dependencies, and enterprise delivery up to senior level.
• Conduct system demos and contribute to I&A and offer and implement suggestions for improvement.
• Actively participate and lead program/squad ceremonies by pairing with Scrum Masters, Agile Coaches, Product and BITE Owners.
• Drive minimum viable thinking, continuous deployment, and integration.
• Ensure early remediation by reducing waste and identifying risks and issues.

Academic Qualifications and Certifications:

• Advanced Diplomas/National
• Preferred Qualification: IT qualification
• Business Analysis, Certificate in BA endorsed by IIBA
• Safe Certification Essential Certifications Preferred Certifications IIBA endorsed
• Minimum Experience Level: 8 years BA experience
• Manage multiple IT Projects and exposure to complex projects, business exposure, industry exposure.
• Guiding others on how to effectively use common techniques.
• Wealth Management or/and financial services Technical/Professional Knowledge
• Research methodology
• BA Body Of Knowledge
• Business writing skills
• Agile Concepts
• Data and Business analysis
• Process Engineering Skills
• Global business analysis Trend
• Business Analysis Discipline, Techniques, and Practices
• Microsoft Office Product

Skills Summary:
Data Warehousing (DW), Integration Development, Process Mapping, Project Integration, Structured Query Language (SQL), Systems Integration, Use Case Development, Workflow Design