Senior Business Analyst

CONTRACT ROLE

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
  
• Organisations's 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, 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 in defining 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 commercialisation.
  
• 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.
  

Qualifications

• Advanced Diplomas/National 1st Degrees

• IT qualification, Certificate in BA endorsed by IIBA, Safe Certification.

• 8 years + experience in BA field 

• Must have agile exposure Banking experience

• IIBA endorsed.

• 5 - 8 years BA experience, manage multiple IT Projects and exposure to complex projects, business exposure, and industry exposure. 
• Guiding others on how to effectively use common techniques.
• Demonstrate these skilled proficiency descriptors.

Technical / professional Knowledge

• BA Body Of Knowledge.

• Business writing skills.

• Agile Concepts.

• Data and Business Analysis.

• Process Engineering Skills.

• Global business analysis Trend.

• Business Analysis Descipline, Techniques and Practices.

• Microsoft Office Product.

Skills Summary

Data Warehousing (DW), Integration Development, Process Mapping, Project Integration, Structured Query Language (SQL), Systems Integration, Use Case Development, Workflow Design