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POSITION INFO:
We're seeking a Senior Business Analyst to join our team! If you're a mastermind at analysing data, identifying trends, and creating solutions, then we need you! Apply now and let's fight the forces of business chaos together!
What you’ll do:
- Consult to various clients, and their stakeholders, to understand their value chain, structure, functions, and products and/or services.
- Building and maintaining strong relationships with clients and acting as a consultant on the projects or applications.
- Challenge the business in their thinking, especially to understand the intent of the business requirement.
- With little supervision, elicit, gather, analyse, document, validate and communicate business requirements (User Stories and Acceptance Criteria)
- Write clear and concise user stories, epics, and features aligned with the INVEST principles to support effective agile development.
- Collaborate with the business to build and maintain a well-prioritized backlog, ensuring delivery teams have a continuous flow of valuable work.
- Conduct in-depth product analysis by developing strong knowledge of the existing product and identifying opportunities for improvement and innovation.
- Operate as a Feature Analyst by decomposing business initiatives into features and capabilities that can be delivered incrementally across multiple systems and platforms.
- Perform system analysis activities including functional decomposition, data analysis, interface analysis, and definition of system behaviours to support solution design and development.
- Collaborate closely with Solution Architects and development teams to ensure business requirements are technically feasible, well understood, and aligned to solution architecture.
- Analyse and document end-to-end business and system processes, identifying upstream and downstream impacts across integrated systems.
- Support delivery within regulated environments by ensuring requirements consider auditability, security, data privacy, and compliance constraints typical of banking and financial services.
Your expertise:
- At least 6-7 years’ experience in Business Analysis across a custom software development environment.
- Experienced with Scrum Principles in an Agile Environment.
- Proven project experience in writing user stories, epics, features, in line with the INVEST principles of agile
- At least 3 years’ experience in Agile Projects
- Working knowledge of (OAS) Open API specification 2.0 and 3.0
- Able to read and interpret JSON and XML files
- Agile Certification (advantageous)
- Able to understand and work using the Behaviour Driven Development (BDD) & Test-Driven Development (TDD) approach for new requirements that require development.
- Formal qualification such as a B. Com or BSc, diploma or certification (IIBA or similar)
- Experience translating business requirements into detailed functional and non?functional system requirements suitable for complex, integrated platforms.
- Strong data analysis skills, including understanding of data models, data flows, and data quality considerations across systems.
- Experience working with integration patterns, APIs, and event?driven architectures common in enterprise and banking environments.
- Ability to support solution estimation, identify requirement level risks, and manage dependency impacts across features and systems.
Personal Attributes:
- A proven ability to work across multiple project teams at a given time
- Demonstrated ability of high levels of communication skills – both verbally and written
- Strong problem solving, communication and presentation skills
- Ability to work under pressure towards predetermined/ established business objectives
- Comfortable operating in complex, high?change environments with multiple stakeholders, systems, and delivery dependencies.
