Lead Solution Analyst

Boardroom Appointments; Johannesburg; On-site; ZAR 800,000 - 1,200,000; Full time

Job summary

Boardroom Appointments is seeking a Senior Business Analyst embedded in a DevOps team to elicit, define and organise business requirements across multiple stakeholder groups. You will translate requirements into user stories and integration points, ensuring alignment with testing frameworks and delivery activity.

You will collaborate with Tribe Leads to build roadmaps, define success measures, and socialise requirements across teams, while coaching analysts and driving improvements in processes

Qualifications

• 10+ years business & systems analysis experience.
• 10+ years experience in working with multidisciplinary teams.
• Experience in Agile Methodology & working embedded within an Agile team / teams.
• Proven track record in coaching, mentoring & managing people.
• Degree or Diploma in computer science, commerce or business administration.
• Information Systems Analyst certification from Institute for the Certification of Computing Professionals, expert level.
• Expertise in Systems Design & Integration.
• Testing Certification (preferred).
• Expertise in Development.
• Expertise in Business Continuity Management & Disaster Recovery.
• Expertise in Governance, Compliance & Audit.
• Expertise in Quality Assurance & Testing.

Responsibilities

• Lead the analysis process for complex business areas.
• Proactively build relationships and apply analytical techniques to elicit and validate business needs ahead of demand.
• Translate elicited needs into user story format for DevOps teams.
• Prepare and prioritise the backlog of requirements for user stories.
• Define measures of success and detailed acceptance criteria.
• Facilitate processes to socialise and approve integrated requirements across stakeholders.
• Work collaboratively with Tribe Leads to build a roadmap and vision for products/services.
• Lead the manual testing process and define testing requirements and plans.
• Provide technical subject matter expertise and support in attraction and recruitment of Analysts.

Skills

Business analysis

Systems analysis

Agile methodologies

Coaching & mentoring

Stakeholder management

Education

Degree or Diploma in computer science, commerce or business administration

Information Systems Analyst certification

Job description

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

Duties and 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 get to know / become an expert in various business processes (e.g. spend time inbusiness & with users)
• Translate elicited needs and knowledge acquired into user story format that is immediately usable forDevOps 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 forimprovement 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 & visionfor the products and services (including detailed analysis requirements & solution scope)
• Define measures of success & key outcomes for various solutions / changes including detailed acceptancecriteria for all features
• Define testing requirements (pass or fail test cases)
• Support the development of detailed business cases (including defining solution characteristics, effortestimations etc.)
• Translate business requirements into an integrated system vision & detailed systems requirements.
• Detailed system requirements must include all capabilities, interfaces and functionalities within and acrosstechnologies.
• 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 todiagrammatically/visually document: business requirements, business processes, system processes &integration.
• Facilitate processes to ensure integrated requirements are socialized, understood & approved across thebroad range of stakeholders to be impacted (this inrisk/governance processes e.g. risk / governanceforums, change council, scrum meetings / DevOps team capability building, solution design sessions etc.)
• Understand & leverage knowledge on the organisations technical landscape, environment and broaderarchitecture to define integration points across tech stacks for various requirements
• Work collaboratively with project / program teams, squads, scrum masters and engineers to definebacklog, 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 analysisfor 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)
• 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 toautomation 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 testingprocess
• Review & monitor system stability, resilience etc. throughout the testing process (e.g. integration) & inproduction
• Define & monitor overall backlog planning for effective solution delivery
• Provide input & or lead the development / improvement of organization 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 forthe organization
• Participate as a subject matter expert in the development & development planning of the broader analystteam
• Support the people change teams in the design of adoption processes (Customer, Employee & 3rd PartyAdoption of new system requirements)
• Proactively attract, recruit, develop, retain, reward & deploy & manage a diverse resource base aligned toan ever evolving tech environment (ahead of demand) where you are the leader

Qualifications and experience:

• 10+ years business & systems analysis experience
• 10+ Years Experience in working with multidisciplinary teams
• Experience in Agile Methodology & working embedded within an Agile team / teams
• Proven track record in coaching, mentoring & managing people
• Degree or Diploma in computer science, commerce or business administration
• Information Systems Analyst certification from Institute for the Certification of Computing Professionals,expert level.
• Expertise in Systems Design & Integration
• Testing Certification (preferred)
• Expertise in Development
• Expertise in Business Continuity Management & Disaster Recovery
• Expertise in Governance, Compliance & Audit
• Expertise in Quality Assurance & Testing.