Senior Analyst: AI-Driven Business & Systems (Johannesburg)

Edgexec (Pty) Ltd; Sandton; Sur place; ZAR 900 000 - 1 500 000; Plein temps

Résumé du poste

Edgexec (Pty) Ltd in Johannesburg seeks a Senior Analyst to lead complex business and systems analysis across domains, leveraging AI-enabled tooling to recover requirements and ensure governance in a highly regulated financial markets environment.

You will work with architects, engineers and stakeholders to model requirements, prepare acceptance criteria and support modernisation initiatives, with a strong emphasis on traceability and quality.

Qualifications

• A Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Information Systems, Engineering or a related discipline.
• Business Analysis certification from a recognised institution, such as IIBA CBAP or an equivalent qualification.
• At least 10 years' experience in Business Analysis, Systems Analysis or an equivalent analysis role.
• At least 3 years' experience working on complex, multi-team or cross-domain initiatives.
• Experience delivering analysis across multiple business or technology domains, or within a shared services or consulting environment.
• Experience analysing existing systems for modernisation, migration or replacement, including recovering requirements where documentation is incomplete or outdated.
• Demonstrated practical experience using AI-assisted tooling in analysis work.
• Advanced requirements elicitation, analysis, specification and validation capability.
• Strong business process modelling and systems analysis skills, including BPMN, UML, data modelling and interface specification.
• Strong understanding of Agile analysis practices, including user stories, acceptance criteria, backlog refinement and definitions of ready and done.
• Sound understanding of the software development lifecycle from design and build through testing, release and operational support.
• Ability to interpret data to support requirements, impact assessments and decision-making.
• Experience with Jira, Confluence, Azure DevOps and relevant modelling tools.
• Strong facilitation, negotiation, communication and stakeholder management skills.
• Ability to adapt quickly to different domains, teams, assignments and ways of working.
• Understanding of information security, POPIA, intellectual property and audit considerations relevant to analysis and AI tooling.
• Financial services, capital markets or regulated-environment experience is strongly preferred.
• An Honours or postgraduate qualification is advantageous.
• Agile analysis certification such as IIBA-AAC, PSPO or SAFe is advantageous.
• Training or certification in AI tooling for analysis or software engineering is advantageous.

Responsabilités

• Deliver analysis across complex, multi-team and cross-domain technology assignments.
• Develop analysis plans, estimate effort, identify dependencies and manage delivery against agreed timelines.
• Elicit, analyse, specify and validate business and system requirements through workshops, interviews, observation, documentation, systems and data analysis.
• Produce business requirements, functional and non-functional requirements, process models, user stories and acceptance criteria.
• Apply BPMN, UML, data modelling and interface specification techniques where appropriate.
• Maintain traceability from business need through requirements, solution design and testing.
• Conduct feasibility, cost and benefit analysis and contribute to business cases and option assessments.
• Work closely with architects and engineers to ensure solution designs address business and system requirements.
• Review test coverage, support user acceptance testing and participate in defect triage and root cause analysis.
• Use AI-assisted tooling to analyse source code, configurations, message schemas, integration definitions and operational records.
• Recover and validate business rules, process logic, data structures and interface behaviour from legacy systems.
• Clearly distinguish confirmed requirements from AI-inferred behaviour and apply appropriate human verification.
• Use AI to accelerate requirements drafting, summarisation, traceability, acceptance criteria and test scenario generation.
• Contribute to modernisation and migration initiatives by establishing validated baseline requirements for existing systems.
• Build effective relationships with business owners, product owners, engineering teams, architects, testers and other stakeholders.
• Facilitate workshops, manage stakeholder expectations and influence scope and solution decisions through evidence-based analysis.
• Participate in governance and design authority forums where required.
• Contribute to the development of analysis standards, templates, reusable artefacts and Centre of Enablement practices.
• Share knowledge, mentor less experienced Analysts and contribute to the analysis community of practice.
• Identify opportunities to improve analysis practices, tooling and delivery efficiency, particularly through responsible AI adoption.

Connaissances

Requirements elicitation

Stakeholder management

BPMN/UML

AI tooling

Data analysis

Formation

Bachelor's degree in CS/IT/IS/Eng

IIBA CBAP or equivalent

Honours or postgraduate advantageous

Outils

Jira

Confluence

Azure DevOps

Modelling tools

Description du poste

Edgexec (Pty) Ltd in Johannesburg seeks a Senior Analyst to lead complex business and systems analysis across domains, leveraging AI-enabled tooling to recover requirements and ensure governance in a highly regulated financial markets environment.

You will work with architects, engineers and stakeholders to model requirements, prepare acceptance criteria and support modernisation initiatives, with a strong emphasis on traceability and quality.