Senior Business Analyst - Johannesburg, South Africa - Boardroom Appointments

    Boardroom Appointments
    Boardroom Appointments Johannesburg, South Africa

    2 weeks ago

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    Full time
    Description

    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 a 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
    • Organisations delivery approach as per the BA methods, frameworks, standards, tools, techniques, competencies, and techniques.
    • 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.
    • 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 in defining 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, Pl 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 synthesise 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 commercialisation.
    • 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.

    Qualifications

    • Advanced Diplomas/National 1st Degrees.
    • IT qualification, Certificate in BA endorsed by IIBA, Safe Certification.
    • IIBA endorsed.
    • 5 - 8 years of BA experience, managing multiple IT Projects and exposure to complex projects, business exposure, and industry exposure.
    • Guiding others on how to effectively use common techniques.
    • Demonstrate these skilled proficiency descriptors.

    Technical / professional Knowledge

    • BA Body Of Knowledge.
    • Business writing skills.
    • Agile Concepts.
    • Data and Business Analysis.
    • Process Engineering Skills.
    • Global business analysis Trend.
    • Business Analysis Descipline, Techniques and Practices.
    • Microsoft Office Product.

    Skills Summary

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