Senior Card Payments Transformation Lead

Sabenza IT & Recruitment; Johannesburg; On-site; ZAR 900,000 - 1,500,000; Full time

Job summary

Sabenza IT & Recruitment seeks an experienced Business Analyst with deep banking and card payments expertise to lead complex transformation and migration projects in Johannesburg. You will work across business and technology teams to define requirements, assess impacts, and ensure regulatory alignment.

Responsibilities include end-to-end BA for card payment migrations, data mapping, UAT support, and risk management, with a strong emphasis on stakeholder engagement, governance, and delivering

Qualifications

• 8+ years of BA experience in banking.
• Strong payments experience (issuing and/or acquiring).
• Proven migration or transformation project delivery.
• Solid understanding of core banking systems, card management systems and payment processing platforms.
• Experience in requirements elicitation, process modelling and documentation.
• Strong stakeholder management across business and IT.

Responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end BA for card payment migration projects.
• Gather and document requirements with business, product, compliance, and technical teams.
• Conduct impact analysis across card systems, payment platforms, and downstream integrations.
• Produce business process models, user stories & epics, functional/non-functional requirements, data mapping and migration specs.
• Support data migration strategy, validation and reconciliation.
• Facilitate workshops and drive stakeholder alignment.
• Translate business requirements into technical specifications.
• Provide SME input on card lifecycle, authorization flows, settlement, disputes, and compliance.
• Support UAT planning, execution, defect triage, and sign-off.
• Identify and manage migration risks.
• Contribute to Agile sprint planning and backlog refinement.

Skills

BA experience

Payments knowledge

Stakeholder mgmt

Requirements elicitation

Process modelling

Agile

Job description

Sabenza IT & Recruitment seeks an experienced Business Analyst with deep banking and card payments expertise to lead complex transformation and migration projects in Johannesburg. You will work across business and technology teams to define requirements, assess impacts, and ensure regulatory alignment.

Responsibilities include end-to-end BA for card payment migrations, data mapping, UAT support, and risk management, with a strong emphasis on stakeholder engagement, governance, and delivering