Business Analyst

Arch Retail Solutions; Cape Town; Remote; ZAR 200 000 - 300 000; Full time

Job summary

An innovative retail solutions company in Cape Town is looking for a Business Analyst to ensure business requirements are met in project developments. Candidates should have over 5 years of experience in software development, excellent communication skills, and a solid understanding of APIs. This is a full-time remote position, requiring flexibility for client meetings and workshops.

Qualifications

• 5+ years working as a business analyst in a software development environment.
• Solid knowledge and experience with VAS providers.
• Conceptual understanding of systems integrations such as APIs.

Responsibilities

• Accountability for business requirements and ensuring solutions meet them.
• Documentation of requirements and solutions.
• Building and maintaining strong client relationships.

Skills

Problem-solving

Client relationship management

Verbal communication

Written communication

Data querying using SQL

Education

Grade 12 Certificate or equivalent N3

Job description

Our Business Analyst Team is growing, you have an opportunity to be part of the team.

Could this be for you?

You will enjoy working in this environment if you are a professional who thrives in the proactive involvement of projects from inception to completion. You can see the bigger picture and break it down into smaller key components. Your strengths lie within problem‑solving and the way you think about concepts. You are committed to deliver and take ownership of your work. You envision a career in which you play an active role in an innovative and growing company.

As a Business Analyst, what do you do?

You take accountability for business requirements and ensuring that the solutions developed meet these requirements. You understand and can contribute to systems solution design. You can document both requirements and solutions and maintain such documentation. You get to build and maintain strong client relationships both internally and externally.

Must Have:

• Applicant must be based in Cape Town or surrounds
• Retail Industry Experience
• 5 years + working as a business analyst in a software development environment
• Solid knowledge and experience working with VAS providers
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Previous exposure to Agile Methodologies such as Scrum
• Experience querying data using SQL
• Own transport
• The availability to travel to clients for meetings if/when required
• Grade 12 Certificate or equivalent N3
• Conceptual understanding of systems integrations such as API's

Not required, but preference will be given to applicants with:

• Formal Business/Systems Analysis qualification(s)
• Formal Scrum or Agile qualification(s)
• Formal IT-related qualification
• Retail Industry experience is Preferable

You should know:

This is a full-time remote work position. There may be occasions where you might be required to meet for workshops at our Head Office in Parklands or travel to clients. Working remotely means that you need to be online during work hours, also during load shedding, and have