Specialist Solution Analyst

2 weeks ago

Randburg, Gauteng, South Africa Absa Bank Limited Full time
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  • With over 100 years of rich history and strongly positioned as a local bank with regional and international expertise, a career with our family offers the opportunity to be part of this exciting growth journey, to reset our future and shape our destiny as a proudly African group.
Job Summary

Job Description:


The purpose of the role is to engage with and support business by identifying, documenting, configuring and test the business requirements for the Regulatory Reporting environment.

In addition, assist other teams using the LUM platform with their designs and process development.


The individual will be required to create and review documents, propose and implement continuous improvement initiatives/solutions, configure and test solutions, participate in the end to end delivery of the projects within the Regulatory Reporting environment and provide BAU support.


The Risk Analytics and Platforms team is responsible for maintaining, enhancing and expanding the LUM system in order to meet the business requirements.

The scope of the LUM solution is extensive, covering major business areas, e.g. Credit Risk, Market Risk, Disclosure, Capital, Finance and Insurance, within the Group, ARO and CIB environments.


The LUM solution used to build these business processes is flexible, extensible and is able to cater for a range of business processes and problems, from basic data imports to complex calculations and technical solutions.

The development team is located in Prague, with the business analysts based in Johannesburg (Randburg, Sandton and Town).


We are looking for someone who is innovative and passionate about building strategic solutions in an agile and flexible work environment; where there is constant interaction and debate with all stakeholders to deliver the optimal solution(s).

We are looking for someone who has the ability to focus and obtain specific solutions within specific business areas and also be able to identify patterns and generic solutions that can be used across the various business areas.

Our key aim and objective is provide the best possible (strategic and sustainable) solutions to business in a cost effective and efficient manner.

Analysis (including Business Case)

  • Implement routines to get to know / become an expert in various business processes (e.g. spend time in business & with users)
  • Translate elicited needs and knowledge acquired into user story format that is immediately usable for DevOps teams (right language, format for building & testing)
  • Prepare and prioritise the backlog of requirements for the user stories linked to the proposed solutions
  • Work collaboratively with Tribe Leads (Technical Product / Service Owners) to build a roadmap & vision for the products and services (including detailed analysis requirements & solution scope)
  • Define measures of success & key outcomes for various solutions / changes including detailed acceptance criteria for all features
  • Define testing requirements (pass or fail test cases)
  • Support the development of detailed business cases (including defining solution characteristics, effort estimations etc.)
Solution Design (within DevOps Context)

  • Translate business requirements into detailed systems requirements. Detailed system requirements must include all capabilities, interfaces and functionalities within and across technologies.
  • Build detailed user stories to be leveraged for system requirements design (modular)
  • Facilitate processes to ensure integrated requirements are socialized, understood & approved across the broad range of stakeholders to be impacted (this includes various processes e.g. risk / governance forums, change council, scrum meetings / DevOps team capability building, solution design sessions etc.)
  • Understand & leverage knowledge on the organisations technical landscape, environment and broader architecture to define integration points across tech stacks for various requirements
  • Work collaboratively with project / program teams, squads, scrum masters and engineers to define backlog, release & DevOps / project planning implications of the requirements development & roadmap (what should happen when)
  • Continuously improve system requirements mapping (e.g. leverage input from questions asked etc. to consistently improve the quality of the requirements analysis for easier interpretation by the development teams)
  • Work as part of the embedded DevOps team throughout the design process to review solution design (features and functionality)
  • Facilitate resolution during development & testing phases for any change requirements
Solution Delivery & Testing (manual)

  • Define the manual testing strategy & test cases for various solutions (where it makes sense to do so)
  • Define & validate quality & testing parameters (+/) & plans for the solution (socialize & translate these to automation testing teams)
  • Develop manual testing frameworks and patterns

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