Senior Business Analyst (3920) - Contract

Senior Business Analyst (3920) - Contract

Overview Reference: PDG2000482951 Salary: ZAR500 - ZAR565/hour Location: South Africa -- Johannesburg Metro -- Sandton Job Type: Contract Posted: 02 July 2024 Closing date: 02 Aug 2024 21:59 Our Client, a Global Tech firm, is seeking a Senior Business Analyst to join their team in Sandton on a contract basis. They offer stability, growth, attractive rates, and a great working environment. To enable change by defining the needs and rationale for change, understanding the current state, defining the future state, and determining the activities required to move from the current to the future state by applying the principles of business analysis with an agile mindset. Complete complex tasks or larger, well-scoped challenges independently and identify appropriate actions to address business challenges. Pair with Product Designers (CX/UX), Business Architects, Testers (QA), Business Data Managers (BDM), and key roles in the requirements value chain. Apply the principles of Product Ownership Analysis and the strategy-to-execution framework. 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 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.
• Conduct Solution Evaluation to assess the performance of and value delivered by a solution.
• Execute according to IIBA best practices, agile product delivery, and lean principles.
• 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.
• Explore and articulate the opportunity/problem to be solved and identify stakeholder wants and needs.
• 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, objectives, and user stories.
• 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 synthesise data to articulate requirements.
• Work with development/QA to identify test cases/scenarios, conduct user acceptance testing, and support change management.
• Conduct/participate in Backlog Refinement, prioritization, and increment planning.
• Analyse/document data requirements and model data flows through all seven product dimensions.
• Foster stakeholder relationships and engagement for discovery and delivery.
• Conduct system demos and contribute to improvement suggestions.
• Actively participate and lead program/squad ceremonies.
• Drive minimum viable thinking, continuous deployment, and integration.
• Ensure early remediation by reducing waste and identifying risks.

Qualifications

• Advanced Diplomas/National 1st Degrees.
• IT qualification, Certificate in BA endorsed by IIBA, Safe Certification.
• 5 - 8 years of BA experience, managing multiple IT Projects.

Technical / Professional Knowledge

• BA Body Of Knowledge.
• Business writing skills.
• Agile Concepts.
• Data and Business Analysis.
• Process Engineering Skills.
• Global business analysis trends.

Skills Summary

• Data Warehousing (DW)
• Integration Development
• Process Mapping
• Project Integration
• Structured Query Language (SQL)
• Systems Integration
• Use Case Development
• Workflow Design

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