Senior Solution Analyst - DevOps & Requirements

1001 Absa Bank; South Africa; On-site; ZAR 900,000 - 1,300,000; Full time

Job summary

Absa Bank is seeking a senior business analyst embedded in a DevOps team in South Africa. You will analyze complex business areas, elicit needs, translate into user stories, and drive backlogs for multi-system implementations.

The role emphasizes collaboration with technical teams and stakeholders to achieve measurable outcomes. You will lead testing planning, define acceptance criteria, and support business cases while leveraging risk and regulatory considerations.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in Information Technology or equivalent.
• Experience in analysing complex business areas and translating requirements into user stories.
• Familiarity with DevOps practices and testing across multi-system environments.
• Strong collaboration with cross-functional squads and stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Lead the analysis process for complex business areas.
• Proactively build relationships and elicit validated business needs.
• Translate needs into user stories for DevOps teams.
• Prepare and prioritise backlog of requirements for proposed solutions.
• Scan environment for change requirements and opportunities for improvement.
• Collaborate with Tribe Leads to roadmap products and services.

Skills

Credit risk knowledge

Credit origination & decisions

Corporate & commercial lending

Credit scoring & rating models

Education

Bachelor's Degree: Information Technology

Tools

JIRA

Confluence

Visio

Azure DevOps

Kafka

Swagger/OpenAPI

MuleSoft

Job description

Absa Bank is seeking a senior business analyst embedded in a DevOps team in South Africa. You will analyze complex business areas, elicit needs, translate into user stories, and drive backlogs for multi-system implementations.

The role emphasizes collaboration with technical teams and stakeholders to achieve measurable outcomes. You will lead testing planning, define acceptance criteria, and support business cases while leveraging risk and regulatory considerations.