Senior IT Business Analyst -

jobster private ltd.; Singapore; On-site; SGD 85,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

jobster private ltd. in Singapore is seeking a Senior Business Analyst to support project managers, software engineers and analysts in delivering robust digital solutions.

You will balance multiple initiatives, elicit business needs, and translate them into user stories, specs and acceptance criteria while applying design thinking and data-led insights. Experience in agile methods, data governance, and visual analytics is highly valued.

Qualifications

• Minimum degree in a relevant field and solid IT BA background.
• Experience in IT business analysis, requirements gathering, and testing.
• Proven track record delivering end-to-end analytics projects.

Responsibilities

• Elicit business needs using human-centric, visual methods and develop business use cases.
• Apply design thinking and service design to identify gaps and future-state solutions.
• Develop user stories, functional/technical specs, and acceptance criteria.
• Perform data cleansing, pre-processing and feature engineering for meaningful insights.
• Design interactive dashboards for data exploration and business insight delivery.
• Evaluate technology options aligned with cloud-based and modernization efforts.
• Determine suitable development methodologies (Agile/Waterfall) for outsourced or in-house teams.
• Ensure readiness for deployment, adoption, and operations.
• Identify opportunities for digital transformation.

Skills

Business analysis

Agile methodologies

Data governance

Data visualization

Stakeholder management

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering or related field

Tools

Tableau

Power BI

Python

Job description

About the job

As a Senior Business Analyst, you will support and collaborate with fellow project managers, software engineers, other business analysts and technical services consultants to deliver robust digital solutions. You should be proactive, self-motivated and resourceful team member with good tech/digital knowledge and possess strong influencing and people management skills. You will also need to be adept at balancing multiple projects concurrently while constantly looking for new ways to apply digital technologies to meet the identified business needs.

What you will be working on:

You will be involved in a range of tasks including the following:

• partner with the business teams to elicit business needs through human-centric, visual methods such as service journeys and develop the appropriate business use cases


• apply Design Thinking / Service Design methodology and tools to develop and execute the approach to derive current state gaps and challenges, and future state design and solutions


• work with the project teams to develop user stories, functional/technical specifications and acceptance criteria


• adopt best practices in data governance, perform data cleansing, pre-processing and feature engineering that facilitate meaningful analysis


• design interactive visualisation dashboards for data exploration and provide insights to business teams


• evaluate and recommend suitable technology while aligning with the organisation technology directions (such as cloud-based, enterprise architecture and modernization of legacy systems, adoption of SG Tech Stack)


• identify and adopt the appropriate development methodology (e.g. Agile or Waterfall) in an Outsourced, Co-Sourced or In-house development environment


• ensure system or product readiness for smooth deployment, adoption and operations


• analyse impact of requested changes and propose improvements to continuously address changing business needs, and work with support team to understand and address technical problems (Operations & Maintenance phase)


• assist to identify new opportunities for digital transformation

What we are looking for:

• Degree in Computer Science, Engineering or related field


• Prior working experience in IT business analysis, application solutioning design and testing


• Participated in at least one full software or product development cycle, preferably using Agile Methodology


• Strong analytical, conceptualisation and problem-solving skills


• Good writing and communication skills with the ability to pitch ideas and influence


• A driven and motivated personality with an inquisitive mind


• Ability to learn and apply

Preferred Skills:

• Business Analysis certification, e.g. Certified Business Analysis Professional (CBAP)


• Past development or consulting experience


• Relevant experience in one or more of the following areas:


• Data manipulation using scripting languages like Python or using ETL tools Visual analytics technologies like Tableau, Power BI End-to-end analytics architecture, preferably with some working knowledge of big data stack


• Knowledge in cloud and data management technologies, including data lake and warehousing, ETL, and data visualization tools.