Senior Business Analyst (3676) - Contract
Overview
Reference
PDG2000482949
Salary
ZAR500 - ZAR565/hour
Location
- South Africa -- Johannesburg Metro -- Sandton
Job Type
Contract
Posted
04 March 2024
Closing date
04 Apr 2024 23:59
Our Client, a Global Tech firm, is seeking a Senior Business Analyst to join their team in Sandton on a contract basis. They offer stability, growth, attractive rates, and a great working environment.
Responsibilities
- Conduct iterative and adaptive planning and monitoring tasks to estimate, organize and coordinate the 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, the work required to define that need, and the solution's scope.
- 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.
- 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 in defining 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, objectives, and user stories by identifying gaps, missing stories, and acceptance criteria.
- 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, rework, and identifying risks and issues.
Qualifications - Advanced Diplomas/National 1st Degrees
- IT qualification, Certificate in BA endorsed by IIBA, Safe Certification.
- IIBA endorsed.
- 5 - 8 years BA experience, managing multiple IT Projects and exposure to complex projects, business exposure, and industry exposure.
Technical / Professional Knowledge - BA Body Of Knowledge.
- Business writing skills.
- Agile Concepts.
- Data and Business Analysis.
- Process Engineering Skills.
- Global business analysis Trends.
- 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.#J-18808-Ljbffr