Job Description: To apply a set of tasks and techniques used to work as a liaison amongst stakeholders in order to understand the problems, opportunities, needs, structure; policies and operations of the organization on large; high risk and complex projects. To recommend solutions that enable the organization to achieve its goals. To elicit and analyze the actual needs of the stakeholders; facilitate communication between organizational units and play a central role in aligning the needs of business units with the capabilities delivered by information technology and may serve as a translator between these groups. The BA should have years of deep practical experience in the role; with repeated practice performing business analysis in varied complex situations.
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.
- 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 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.
- Analyze 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, KPls metrics, and align requirements accordingly.
- Understand all elements of the program and team backlog 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, PI objectives and user stories by identifying gaps, missing stories and acceptance criteria, scenario development and all requirement categories.
- 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.
- Analyze/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, identify risks and issues.
- Guide others on how to effectively use common techniques.
Qualifications: - IT qualification, Certificate in BA endorsed by IIBA, Safe Certification.
- 5 - 8 years of BA experience, managing multiple IT Projects and exposure to complex projects, business exposure, and industry exposure.
- Experience:
- Collections & Recovery
- Credit & Risk Management
- Secured & Unsecured Lending
- Payments
- Wealth Products experience
- Product and Client Onboarding.
- Agile experience essential (Not just writing stories in Jira and Confluence)
