Senior Business Analyst III

Boardroom Appointments; South Africa; On-site; ZAR 550,000 - 750,000; Full time

Job summary

A recruitment agency in South Africa is seeking a Senior Business Analyst III for a 12-month contract. The ideal candidate will manage enterprise initiatives, collaborate with stakeholders, and oversee requirements from inception to retirement. Qualifications include Matric, advanced diplomas, IT qualifications, and relevant certifications. This role emphasizes adherence to IIBA standards and agile principles.

Qualifications

• Matric (Grade 12) is required.
• Advanced diploma or equivalent degree is mandatory.
• Must hold IT qualification and a certificate in BA endorsed by IIBA.
• Safe Certification is beneficial.

Responsibilities

• Conduct iterative planning and monitoring for BA efforts.
• Elicit and collaborate with stakeholders for information.
• Manage requirements throughout their life cycle.
• Perform strategy analysis for business needs.
• Evaluate solutions to assess performance and value.
• Execute tasks adhering to IIBA best practices.

Education

Matric (Grade 12)

Advanced Diplomas/National 1st Degrees

IT qualification

Certificate in BA endorsed by IIBA

Safe Certification

Job description

Overview

Senior Business Analyst III – 12 Month Contract

Minimum requirements

• Matric (Grade 12)
• Advanced Diplomas/National 1st Degrees
• IT qualification
• Certificate in BA endorsed by IIBA
• Safe Certification

Responsibilities

• Conduct iterative and adaptive planning and monitoring tasks to estimate, organize and coordinate the BA efforts on large/complex enterprise initiatives
• Conduct elicitation and collaboration tasks to obtain information from stakeholders
• Conduct requirements analysis and design definition to structure, organize, specify and model requirements and designs
• Conduct Requirements Life Cycle Management tasks to manage and maintain requirements and design information from inception to retirement
• Conduct strategy analysis to define the future and transition states needed to address the business need, the work required to define that need and the scope of the solution
• Conduct Solution Evaluation to assess the performance of and value delivered by a solution and eliminate barriers/constraints that prevent the full realization of the value
• Execute according to IIBA best practices, agile product delivery and lean principles based on the companies delivery approach as per the BA methods, frameworks, standards, tools, techniques, competencies and practices
• Analyse and document requirements based on changes to users, interfaces, processes, data flows, constraints, environments, and non-functional requirements
• Understand the portfolio's strategic themes, product roadmap, vision, KPIs and metrics, and align requirements accordingly
• Understand all elements of the program and team backlog and align requirements accordingly
• Explore and articulate the opportunity/problem to be solved and identify stakeholder wants and needs and participate to define the proposed solution
• Use visual diagrams and collaborative games to model scope, interfaces, story context, data flows, processes, retrospectives and dependencies across projects
• Decompose and document epics, features, themes, hypothesis statements
• PI objectives and user stories by identifying gaps, missing stories and acceptance criteria, scenario development and all requirement categories
• Own decomposition of portfolio epics, features, elicitation, analysis, story writing and acceptance criteria writing throughout the requirements value chain
• Collaborate/co-create process and capability alignment by pairing with the PE and Business Architect
• Support the team in working on impediments and spikes and enabler epics, enabler stories, and synthesize the data to articulate requirements
• Work with development/QA to identify test cases/scenarios, conduct user acceptance testing and train the trainer/user and support change management commercialization
• Conduct/participate in Backlog Refinement, prioritization, WSJF, and increment planning and drive
• Devops and Built-in quality principles
• Analyse/document data requirements and model data flows through all seven product dimensions on a solution/program level by pairing with BDMs
• Foster stakeholder relationships and engagement for discovery and delivery, backlog refinement, dependencies, and enterprise delivery up to senior level
• Conduct system demos and contribute to I&A and offer and implement suggestions for improvement
• Actively participate and lead program/squad ceremonies by pairing with Scrum Masters, Agile
• Coaches, Product and BITE Owners
• Drive minimum viable thinking, continuous deployment and integration
• Ensure early remediation by reducing waste, rework, identify risks, issues