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Senior Business Analyst: 10 Years Agile Methodology Experience: Banking: FTC - Johannesburg

Senior Business Analyst: Agile Methodologies: Banking: 1 year FTC

Must have 10+ Years experience in Agile Methodologies

IIIBA Endorsed Certification: AAC, ECBA, CCBA, CBAP

Experience/Skills needed:

  • IIIBA 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

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