Senior Technical Business Analyst

StructureIt Ltd; South Africa; Remote; ZAR 600,000 - 800,000; Full time

Job summary

A fast-growing fintech company is seeking a Senior Technical Business Analyst to enhance application development and data solutions for global clients. The role requires strong analytical skills and experience in data integration, with a focus on understanding customer datasets and technical specifications. You will collaborate with clients and internal teams to deliver effective solutions, while benefitting from a fully remote flexible work environment and extensive employee benefits.

Benefits

Fully remote working

Flexible working hours

20 days annual leave

Learning budget for books or courses

Annual company outings

Qualifications

• 5+ years’ experience in a business analyst or data analyst role.
• Strong understanding of relational databases and data transformation.
• Experience in Agile/Scrum environments.

Responsibilities

• Engage with customers to understand their business needs.
• Analyze customer data sets to assess integration needs.
• Translate business requirements into technical specifications.
• Validate data quality and alignment with business requirements.

Skills

Data integration experience

Communication skills

Analytical mindset

SQL knowledge

Stakeholder management

Tools

PostgreSQL

Microsoft SQL Server

Job description

StructureIt is a fast-growing fintech business, with offices in the UK, South Africa, Mauritius, Thailand and New Zealand. We build mission critical software and data solutions for both major multi-national financial institutions and smaller organisations.

Main focus of the role

We are seeking a technically strong, customer-focused Senior Technical Business Analyst to support application development and data solution implementations for a global client base. This role sits at the intersection of client data environments and our technical delivery teams—requiring both business insight and technical acumen.

This individual will work with our technical teams and be the link person between what the intended use of the delivered solutions and the customer datasets and needs. You will establish and understand the customer datasets by working with their tech and data teams, building specifications for integration and processes to ensure data integrity as their data moves from their environment through the solution and is presented back to them via the presentation layers.

This role requires a strong analytical mindset, excellent communication skills, and hands-on experience with data transformation and integration processes.

What you’ll do

• Customer Engagement & Requirements Gathering
• Engage directly with customers to understand their business needs and data environments.
• Elicit, document, and validate functional and non-functional requirements.
• Conduct workshops and interviews with client stakeholders to capture use cases and success criteria.
• Data Analysis & Integration Design
• Analyze complex customer data sets, schemas, and data flows to assess integration needs.
• Collaborate with data engineers and developers to design effective data ingestion, transformation, and mapping processes.
• Validate data quality, completeness, and alignment with business requirements.
• Technical Collaboration & Delivery
• Translate business requirements into clear and actionable technical specifications.
• Act as a liaison between the customer and the internal technical teams throughout the project lifecycle.
• Contribute to solution architecture, user story creation, and acceptance criteria definitions.
• Support testing efforts by defining test cases and validating outputs against expected results.
• Product & Analytics Alignment
• Work closely with our product team to ensure that customer data is accurately reflected in analytics outputs.
• Provide feedback on product improvements based on client needs and data insights.
• Monitor and evaluate the effectiveness of integrated data in supporting customer decision-making.
  
  

To fly in your role, you’ll need

• 5+ years’ experience in a business analyst or data analyst role, with at least 2 years in a technical capacity.
• Proven experience working on data integration projects (ETL, data pipelines, APIs).
• Strong understanding of relational databases, data modeling, and data transformation concepts with relational database experience (PostgreSQL, Microsoft SQL Server, etc) strongly preferred
• Ability to translate complex technical concepts into business language and vice versa.
• Strong communication, documentation, and stakeholder management skills.
• Experience in Agile/Scrum environments.
• Technical understanding of complex data sets with the ability to interrogate them via SQL and Excel
• To be approachable, calm under pressure and authentic
  
  

Nice to have

• Familiarity with the software development lifecycle and Agile methodologies
• Understanding of software architectural concepts
  
  

Benefits

• Working
  • Fully remote working / or from the office with daily lunch
  • Flexible working hours
  • High-spec Dell laptop
  • Money towards a keyboard of your choice, that is yours to keep
• Insurance - fully paid on top of, not out of your salary
  • Medical Aid, including Gap Cover
  • Life Insurance, with Disability Insurance and Funeral cover
• Learning
  • Learning Budget - Books or Courses - you choose how to use it
• Culture
  • Employee-first culture that encourages work/life balance
  • Everyone has a voice, regardless of title
  • Psychological safety
  • Annual company outings (last 5 years - 3-day Sun City trip)
• Leave
  • 20 days annual leave
  • Paid Maternity, Paternity, Study & Moving leave
    
    

Interested?

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