Lead Solution Analyst

Absa Group; Johannesburg; On-site; ZAR 500 000 - 700 000; Full time

Job summary

A leading South African bank is seeking a mid-senior level Business Analyst to work in a DevOps team. You will lead the analysis process for complex business areas, translating requirements into user stories. A Bachelor's degree in Information Technology is essential, along with strong analytical skills and experience in the banking industry. The role requires collaboration with multiple stakeholder groups to ensure effective delivery and adherence to compliance regulations.

Qualifications

• Experience in high complexity environments with DevOps teams.
• Proven track record of translating business requirements into user stories.
• Ability to lead manual testing processes and define strategies.

Responsibilities

• Lead the analysis process for complex business areas.
• Translate elicited needs into user story format for DevOps teams.
• Work collaboratively with Tribe Leads to build a roadmap for products.

Skills

Analytical techniques

Business process knowledge

UML/BPMN skills

Communication

Coaching

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Information Technology

Job description

Job Summary

Work in high complexity environments, fully embedded in a DevOps team, leveraging specialist analysis tools, frameworks, techniques and practices to elicit, define and organize business requirements across multiple stakeholder groups. Translate & document these business requirements into user stories & specifications (Full Stack, Cross System) detailing integration points, business & associated risk / opportunities to be realised. Following this analysis, work collaboratively within squads to ensure the business requirements are met through DevOps design & delivery activity & lead the application of testing processes & frameworks ensuring all products & services are effectively tested.

Responsibilities

• Lead the analysis process for complex business areas
• Proactively build relationships, apply analytical techniques to elicit and validate business (product & service) needs ahead of demand
• Implement routines to become an expert in various business processes (e.g., spend time in business & with users)
• Translate elicited needs and knowledge acquired into user story format that is immediately usable for DevOps teams (right languaging, format for building & testing)
• Prepare and prioritise the backlog of requirements for the user stories linked to the proposed solutions
• Proactively scan the internal & external environment to predict change requirements & opportunities for improvement ahead of demand (e.g., market, risk, regulatory, customer, organizational change etc.)
• Work collaboratively with Tribe Leads (Technical Product / Service Owners) to build a roadmap & vision for the products and services (including detailed analysis requirements & solution scope)
• Define measures of success & key outcomes for various solutions / changes including detailed acceptance criteria for all features
• Define testing requirements (pass or fail test cases)
• Support the development of detailed business cases (including defining solution characteristics, effort estimations etc.)
• Translate business requirements into an integrated system vision & detailed systems requirements
• Build detailed user stories to be leveraged for system requirements design (modular)
• Leverage business analysis & modeling tools and apply notation standards such as UML / BPMN to diagrammatically / visually document: business requirements, business processes, system processes & integration
• Facilitate processes to ensure integrated requirements are socialized, understood & approved across the broad range of stakeholders to be impacted (this includes various processes e.g. risk / governance forums, change council, scrum meetings / DevOps team capability building, solution design sessions etc.)
• Understand & leverage knowledge on the organisations technical landscape, environment and broader architecture to define integration points across tech stacks for various requirements
• Work collaboratively with project / program teams, squads, scrum masters and engineers to define backlog, release & DevOps / project planning implications of the requirements development & roadmap (what should happen when)
• Work as part of the embedded DevOps team to continuously improve system requirements mapping (e.g. leverage input from questions asked etc. to consistently improve the quality of the requirements analysis for easier interpretation by the development teams)
• Work as part of the embedded DevOps team throughout the design process to review solution design (features and functionality)
• Facilitate resolution & decision making during development & testing phases for any change requirements
• Define the manual testing strategy & test cases for various solutions where it makes sense to do so
• Define & validate quality & testing parameters (+ / -) & plans for the solution (socialize & translate these to automation testing teams)
• Develop manual testing frameworks and patterns for the solution
• Lead the manual testing process for various solutions (e.g. execute test cases, analyse results)
• Provide real time feedback to the DevOps teams on change requirements identified throughout the testing process
• Review & monitor system stability, resilience etc. throughout the testing process (e.g. integration) & in production
• Define & monitor overall backlog planning for effective solution delivery
• Provide Developer & User support during user acceptance testing
• Provide input & or lead the development / improvement of organisation-wide process design approaches, templates & modeling tools
• Provide coaching & mentoring across the DevOps team as well as to developing analysts across the estate
• Build strong analysis capability across the analysis team
• Conduct peer reviews & problem solving within and across the broader team
• Provide technical subject matter expertise and support in the attraction and recruitment of Analysts for the organisation
• Participate as a subject matter expert in the development & development planning of the broader analyst team
• Support the people change teams in the design of adoption processes (Customer, Employee & 3rd Party Adoption of new system requirements)
• Proactively attract, recruit, develop, retain, reward & deploy & manage a diverse resource base aligned to an ever evolving tech environment (ahead of demand) where you are the leader

Education

Bachelor's Degree : Information Technology

Seniority Level

Mid-Senior level

Employment Type

Full-time

Job Function

Information Technology

Industry

Banking and Financial Services

Equal Opportunity Statement

Absa Bank Limited is an equal opportunity, affirmative action employer. In compliance with the Employment Equity Act 55 of , preference will be given to suitable candidates from designated groups whose appointments will contribute towards achievement of equitable demographic representation of our workforce profile and add to the diversity of the Bank. Absa Bank Limited reserves the right not to make an appointment to the post as advertised.