Specialist Business Analyst

Positron SE; Sandton; On-site; ZAR 600,000 - 900,000; Full time

Job summary

Positron SE in Sandton, South Africa, seeks an experienced Business Analyst for a 12-month contract in the banking domain. The role focuses on building strong stakeholder relationships, aligning requirements to strategy and program backlog, and modelling data and processes to support enterprise delivery.

You will lead BA activities for large initiatives, decompose epics, and ensure acceptance criteria, while driving continuous improvement and adherence to IIBA practices and SAFe/Agile frameworks.

Qualifications

• Professional Qualification or Honours Degree in IT.
• IIBA endorsed certification in Business Analysis preferred.
• SAFe or Agile Certification preferred.
• 5-8 years BA experience.
• Experience in guiding others on how to effectively use common techniques.

Responsibilities

• Build stakeholder relationships and align requirements to product strategy, roadmap and program backlog.
• Lead adaptive planning, estimation, monitoring and coordination of BA activities for large or complex initiatives.
• Elicit, structure and model requirements across processes, data, interfaces and non-functional needs.
• Decompose epics/features/stories and own analysis, story writing and acceptance criteria.
• Assess solution performance, identify gaps, remove constraints, reduce rework and address risks early.
• Support DevOps enablement and built-in quality practices; synthesize data to articulate requirements.

Skills

Stakeholder management

Requirements elicitation

Agile concepts

Data analysis

Process modelling

Education

Honours Degree in IT

IIBA endorsed certification in Business Analysis

Job description

Our banking client seeks an experienced Business Analyst for a 12 month contract.

This role will require you to:

• Build strong stakeholder relationships, align requirements to product strategy, roadmap, metrics, and program backlog, model data and processes visually, and support dependency and enterprise-level delivery.
• Align requirements to the full program and team backlog while leading adaptive planning, estimation, monitoring, and coordination of BA activities for large or complex initiatives.
• Conduct stakeholder elicitation, structure and model requirements, analyse current vs future states, define solution scope, decompose epics/features/stories, document requirements across processes, data, interfaces, constraints, and non-functional needs.
• Decompose epics, features, themes and ownership of analysis, story writing and acceptance criteria writing throughout the requirements value chain.
• Assess solution performance and value, identify gaps, remove constraints, reduce waste, minimise rework, and address risks and issues early.
• Drive minimum viable thinking, continuous deployment, integration and actively support the team in working on impediments and spikes and enabler epics, enabler stories, and synthesize the data to articulate requirements. Ensure early remediation by reducing waste, rework, identify risks and issues.
• Use Al to uncover hidden patterns, validate flows, enhance quality, automate documentation, and support decision-making. Apply Al-based modelling assistants for process flows, data flows, and user stories.
• Work closely with designers, architects, testers, developers, process Engineers, Agile Project Managers, Product Owners and Technical Product Owners. Contribute to squad ceremonies, backlog refinement, prioritisation, WSJF, PI planning, DevOps enablement, and built-in quality practices.
• Execute according to IIBA best practices, agile product delivery and lean principles based on the bank's delivery approach as per the BA methods, frameworks, standards, tools, techniques, competencies and practices.
• Support Testing, Demos, Change Readiness and User Enablement. Conduct system demos, support training (train-the trainer), and contribute to retrospectives and improvement initiatives.

Requirements:

Professional Qualification or Honours Degree in IT

Preferred Certifications

An IIBA endorsed certification in Business Analysis

SAFe or Agile Certification

Minimum Experience Level

5-8 years BA experience

Must have managed multiple, complex IT Projects

Experience in guiding others on how to effectively use common techniques.

Technical / Professional Knowledge

Research methodology

Data and Business analysis

Strategy planning and execution

BA Body Of Knowledge

Agile Concepts

Process Engineering Skills

Business Analysis Discipline , Techniques and Practices