Intermediate/Junior Business Analyst - (CONTRACT)

Key Purpose:

• Understand the business requirements, and through a structured process, document, validate and translate it into functional specifications that are used by developers to develop a technical solution.
• The Business Analyst (Intermediate) successfully implements projects, enhancements and manages production issues with a full application of the SDLC approach. The incumbents ensures that plans are integrated before implementation. Drives the design and modification that meets business needs. Builds internal and external stakeholder relations.

Areas of responsibility may include but not limited to:

Business Requirements Development

• Elicit the business requirements either directly, or from a documented set of business requirements
• Facilitate activities such as workshops/JAD sessions to expand the understanding of the business requirements and ensure alignment between stakeholders
• Assist the business to articulate the benefits they wish to realize with the solution
• Pursue enquiries with clients to understand the ‘why’ rather than the ‘what’ of the business request
• Challenge the business in their thinking, and develop alternative proposals, to ensure that the intent of the business requirement is met
• Make recommendations for requirements approaches

Functional Requirements Development

• Identify and describe the set of requirements for the solution, functionally and non-functionally, including user stories and/or user interface requirements, system interface requirements, system processing requirements and/or configuration of existing solutions
• Perform formal modelling to simulate the solution and elicit detailed requirements
• Document the functional requirements in EA according to the approved standards
• Identify and Involve other teams and domains that must be integrated to for the solution to work
• Identify the key set of test cases/acceptance criteria to accompany the set of functional requirements
• Validate the requirements with the business and development team to ensure ongoing alignment of expectations
• Ensure the solution architecture is aligned with the business and functional requirements
• Defend the business requirements during the technical design and implementation of the project
• Develop templates to enable localisation, configuration of standard product, reference data identification, rule definition

Project Management

• Provide estimates on business analysis activities required for the project
• Where necessary, facilitate the development of formal estimations for the entire project using standard techniques and involving all impacted parties
• Co-ordinate work activities between the client and development team (e.g. scheduling JAD sessions)
• Maintain and update the scheduling system as needed
• Manage and prevent scope creep

Personal Attributes and Skills

Behavioral Skills:

• Client focus
• Stress Management
• Time management and prioritization
• Learning orientation
• Innovation
• Bias for action
• Teamwork and co-operation

Technical Skills:

• BPMN 2.0
• UML Modelling
• Data modelling (minimum being able to understand these. Intermediate and Senior systems analyst must be able to model data)
• Use Cases
• High standards for delivery
• Requirement’s definition
• User Story definition
• Webservices exposure
• Data modelling
• Sparx Enterprise Architect
• Agile project delivery (SAFE)
• Structured and analytical problem solver
• Process Mapping
• Coaching and mentor to junior teammates
• Understanding of SAFE and Agile principles

Education and Experience

Required:

• NQF Level 5: Certified in at least one of the following: 3-year National Diploma/B-Degree in Information Technology.
• Advanced UML course, BPMN Course would be advantageous
• BA Certification or BA Diploma or Advanced BA Qualification is advantageous

Experience:

• 2 - 5 years solid Business Analysis / Systems Analysis experience
• Experience as Developer
• Business experience and product knowledge (Advantageous)
• Integration experience with 3rd party vendors or multiple inter-dependencies (Advantageous)
• Triaging, facilitating and supporting of defects with the testing and UAT teams
• High level understanding of open source and Microservices architecture
• BPMN exposure

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