Business-Driven Requirements Analyst

NTT Data; Johannesburg; On-site; ZAR 600,000 - 1,200,000; Full time

Job summary

NTT Data in Johannesburg is seeking a seasoned Business Analyst to bridge business needs and the build team. You will translate incomplete or outcome-based requirements into actionable specifications, and own the requirement end-to-end from capture to delivery and acceptance.

You will run workshops, challenge requirements, document both as-is and to-be processes, assess regulatory impacts, and write acceptance criteria. You will draft FSD and TSD, ensure traceability, and support SIT/UAT.

Qualifications

• Matric and a tertiary qualification.
• Mid to Senior (5+ years) experience.

Responsibilities

• Run workshops, interviews and process walkthroughs with business stakeholders, subject matter experts and operations teams.
• Challenge stated requirements to establish the underlying business need, the decision being supported, and the value being sought.
• Identify gaps, contradictions, duplication and unstated assumptions in the source requirements, and drive them to resolution rather than escalating them unresolved.
• Document current-state ("as-is") processes and define target-state ("to-be") processes, including the operational and control changes required.
• Assess regulatory, audit and data-protection implications of each requirement and flag where compliance input is needed.
• Author functional specification documents that define system behaviour in business terms: process flows, use cases or user stories, business rules, decision tables, validation logic, calculation logic, roles and permissions, notifications, and reporting outputs.
• Define exception paths, error handling and edge cases explicitly — not only the happy path.
• Write clear, testable acceptance criteria for every requirement.
• Secure formal business sign-off on the functional specification before build commences.
• Translate the approved functional specification into a technical specification that engineering can build against, covering:
• System and component architecture in scope, and the changes required to each.
• Data model changes: entities, attributes, data types, cardinality, referential integrity, retention.
• Integration and interface specifications: API contracts, request/response payloads, protocols, authentication, error and retry behaviour, throughput and volumetrics.
• Data migration and transformation rules, including source-to-target field mappings and cleansing logic.
• Configuration versus customisation decisions, with rationale.
• Non-functional requirements: performance, availability, scalability, security, auditability, logging and monitoring.
• Document assumptions, dependencies, constraints and out-of-scope items.
• Maintain a requirements traceability matrix linking business requirement functional specification technical specification test case delivered feature.
• Groom and maintain the backlog; ensure work items entering a sprint meet the team's definition of ready.
• Support developers through build, acting as the authority on intended behaviour.
• Author or review test scenarios; support SIT and UAT, triage defects, and distinguish genuine defects from change requests.
• Contribute to release notes, training material, user guides and operational handover documentation.
• Run impact assessments on change requests: effort, risk, dependencies, cost and schedule implications.
• Manage version control and change history across all specification artefacts.
• Keep business and technical stakeholders aligned on scope, sequencing and trade-offs, and communicate decisions and their consequences clearly to both audiences.

Skills

Requirements analysis

FSD writing

TSD writing

BPMN modeling

Data mapping

Interface specifications

User stories

Traceability matrix

UAT support

Impact assessment

Education

Matric

Tertiary qualification

Job description

NTT Data in Johannesburg is seeking a seasoned Business Analyst to bridge business needs and the build team. You will translate incomplete or outcome-based requirements into actionable specifications, and own the requirement end-to-end from capture to delivery and acceptance.

You will run workshops, challenge requirements, document both as-is and to-be processes, assess regulatory impacts, and write acceptance criteria. You will draft FSD and TSD, ensure traceability, and support SIT/UAT.