Senior Business Analyst III

About the job 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