- South Africa
- Salary: On Application
- Job Type: Contract
- Sectors: Banking
- Reference: 1258638374
Vacancy Details
Employer: Isilumko Staffing
Senior Business Analyst: Agile Methodologies: Banking: 1 year FTC
Must have 10+ Years experience in Agile Methodologies
IIBA Endorsed Certification: AAC, ECBA, CCBA, CBAP
Experience/Skills needed:
- IIBA Best Practice experience and endorsed qualification
- Project, Process & Product experience
- To apply a set of tasks and techniques used to work as a liaison amongst stakeholders in order to understand the problems, opportunities, needs; structure; policies and operations of the organization on large; high risk and complex projects.
- To recommend solutions that enable the organization to achieve its goals. To elicit and analyze the actual needs of the stakeholders; facilitate communication between organizational units and play a central role in aligning the needs of business units with the capabilities delivered by information technology and may serve as a translator between these groups.
- As Senior BA you should have 10 Years relevant experience of deep practical experience in the role; with repeated practice performing business analysis in a variety of complex situations.
- Certificate: Program in Business Analysis
- Data Analysis
Key Deliverables:
- 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 client’s delivery approach as per the BA methods, frameworks, standards, tools, techniques, competencies, and practices.
- Analyze 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 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.
- 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 Process Engineer 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 teams 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, Weighted Shortest Job First (WSJF), and increment planning and drive DevOps and Built-in quality principles.
- 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 Inspect & Adapt (I&A) and offer and implement suggestions for improvement.
- Actively participate and lead program/squad ceremonies by pairing with Scrum Masters, Agile Coaches, Product Owners.
- Drive minimum viable thinking, continuous deployment, and integration.
- Ensure early remediation by reducing waste, rework, identify risks, issues.
Formal Qualifications Essential Qualifications:
NQF Level • Advanced Diplomas/National 1st Degrees Preferred Qualification • IT qualification Essential Certifications • Safe Certification or any agile/scrum certification Preferred Certifications • Certificate in BA endorsed by IIBA
Experience Minimum Experience Level: 5 - 8 years BA experience, manage multiple IT Projects and exposure to complex projects, business exposure, industry exposure. Guiding others on how to effectively use common techniques.
Technical Competencies: Jira/Confluence Usage • Research methodology • BA Body of Knowledge • Design Thinking • Business writing skills • Agile Concepts • Business analysis • Process Engineering Skills • Business Analysis Discipline, Techniques and Practices • Microsoft Office Product Behavioral Competencies • Decision Making • Building partnerships • Technical/Professional Knowledge and Skills • Initiating Action • Continuous Improvement • Customer Orientation
Please note Communication will only be with shortlisted candidates: please email me for a skills matrix: 3657: jino.swart@isilumko.co.za
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