Senior Business Analyst: Large Complex Project Expertise

2 months ago


Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa Isilumko Staffing Full time
Job Title: Senior Business Analyst: Large Complex Project Experience

We are seeking an experienced Senior Business Analyst with a strong background in large and complex projects to join our team at Isilumko Staffing.

About the Role:

The successful candidate will have a minimum of 5-8 years of experience in business analysis, with a proven track record of managing multiple IT projects and exposure to complex projects. They will be responsible for guiding others on how to effectively use common techniques and will have a strong understanding of business analysis principles, including business writing skills, agile concepts, and process engineering skills.

Key Responsibilities:
  • Conduct iterative and adaptive planning and monitoring tasks to estimate, organize, and coordinate 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.
Requirements:
  • 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
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 that communication will only be with shortlisted candidates.



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