Senior Business Analyst III

Business Analyst III [12 Month Contract]

Minimum Requirements:

• Matric (Grade 12)
• Advanced Diplomas/National 1st Degrees
• IT qualification
• Certificate in BA endorsed by IIBA
• Safe Certification
  

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 and 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, the work required to define that need and the scope of the solution
• Conduct Solution Evaluation to assess the performance of and value delivered by a solution and eliminate barriers/constraints that prevent the full realization of the value
• Execute according to IIBA best practices, agile product delivery and lean principles based on the companies delivery approach as per the BA methods, frameworks, standards, tools, techniques, competencies and practices
• 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, KPls and metrics, and align requirements accordingly
• Understand all elements of the program and team backlog and align requirements accordingly
• Explore and articulate the opportunity/problem to be solved and identify stakeholder wants and needs and participate to define the proposed solution
• 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
• PI objectives and user stories by identifying gaps, missing stories and acceptance criteria, scenario development and all requirement categories
• Own decomposition of portfolio epics, features, elicitation, analysis, story writing and acceptance criteria writing throughout the requirements value chain
• 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 enabler epics, enabler stories, and synthesize the data to articulate requirements
• Work with development/QA to identify test cases/scenarios, conduct user acceptance testing and train the trainer/user and support change management commercialization
• Conduct/participate in Backlog Refinement, prioritization, WSJF, and increment planning and drive
• Devops and Built-in quality principles
• Analyse/document data requirements and model data flows through all seven product dimensions on a solution/program level by pairing with BDMs
• Foster stakeholder relationships and engagement for discovery and delivery, backlog refinement, dependencies, and enterprise delivery up to senior level
• Conduct system demos and contribute to I&A and offer and implement suggestions for improvement
• Actively participate and lead program/squad ceremonies by pairing with Scrum Masters, Agile
• Coaches, Product and BITE Owners
• Drive minimum viable thinking, continuous deployment and integration.
• Ensure early remediation by reducing waste, rework, identify risks, issues