My client based in Cape Town (Northern Suburbs) is currently looking for a Technical Business Analyst to join them on a fixed term contract
IT / Finance
Responsibilities
- Business requirements gathering and documentation
- Translate business requirements to technical specifications
- Own changes related to business requests
- Write detailed user stories and technical specifications with clear acceptance criteria to guide development
- Prioritize and refining backlog items focusing on technical aspects
- Align and standardize technical demand
- Collaborate with Solutions Architects and development teams to design technical solutions that meet the documented requirements and align with architectural standards
- Insights into more efficient business processing
- Enable junior analysts and Business Analysis competency within division
- Ensure standardized document structures, and central storage for free and easy access and distribution
- Assist in quality of technology implementations by providing clarification
- Implement / Test for data quality checks and validation processes to ensure the accuracy, completeness, and consistency of data throughout data pipelines
- Report on the analysis landscape
- Own analysis outputs as it relates to specific products
- Collaborate with cross functional teams including analysts, and business stakeholders to understand data requirements, prioritize tasks, and deliver solutions that meet business objectives
- Manage up and downward feedback for accurate delivery and reporting
- Excellent communication and presentation skills to convey complex findings to nontechnical stakeholders
- Stay updated with emerging technologies, best practices, and industry trends
- Oversee demo of products to Product Owners Manage business stakeholder communication
- Change management of new solutions to address business need for value
- Develop test scenarios and or test packs
- Manage test outcomes
- The capability to evaluate information from various sources, challenge assumptions, and consider alternative solutions
- Root Cause Analysis
- Business Support
- Convert support requests to trackable tasks
- Accountable to manage Analyst capacity to allocate to support tasks as and when it gets logged
- Spot and mitigate technical risks and issues
Required Skills
- Work with stakeholders to gather, document, and refine business requirements and user stories
- Ensure that the Sprint backlog reflects the needs and priorities of the business
- UML, BPMN Concise, clear Technical Document Writing
- Describe features from the end-user’s perspective and help ensure that the development team understands what needs to be built
- Understanding the impact of each item on the overall project goals and ensuring that the most valuable work is addressed first
- Process understanding and Mapping, Dataflows
- Ensure technical solution aligns with documented requirements
- Technical understanding, Data Analysis
- Process insights, understanding and ownership
- Own the quality and central storage of analysis outputs
- Content ownership
- Participate in testing phases and validate the solution against business requirements
- Understanding Data flow
- Able to provide snapshot of the current state of analysis work that is occurring
- Able to provide business stakeholders with a summarized view of business analysis
- Liaison between business stakeholders and the technical team, facilitating discussions
- Maturity in managing relationships with appropriate content and conduct
- Self-awareness, empathy, Conflict resolution, Stress management
- Identifying opportunities
- Run demo meetings
- Bridge between business and the technical team to ensure accurate requirements are met with accurate business solutions
- Proficiency in using problem-solving frameworks or methodologies, such as Six Sigma or Lean, to analyse issues and implement solutions systematically
- Convert Support Tasks to trackable JIRA subtasks
- Risk Mitigation
- Planning
Competencies
- Collect and Translate (high level) concepts into detailed business and or technical requirements
- Understand technical constraints and dependencies
- Accurate, neat, thorough documentation for stakeholder consumption (presentation) and business distribution
- User story mapping sound understanding of acceptance criteria
- Validate that the items in the backlog are feasible and realistic
- Help break down larger items into smaller, more manageable tasks, and clarify or adjust details as needed
- Ensure that backlog items align with the overall project goals and business objectives
- Ensure solutions provide positive user experience
- Enterprise perspective
- Sound Business Process acumen and experience
- Workflow understanding
- Solid understanding of Enterprise system integration
- Uncover areas of improvement for business processes and optimized solutions
- Quality documentation outputs
- Manage the storage and access of quality documentation Issue Identification and support
- Defect management
- Managing changes and enhancements
- Use acceptance testing
- Data flow diagrams, Sequence Diagrams, Activity Diagrams, structured testing methodology
- Proficiency in data analysis tools such as Excel, SQL, or similar software
- Stakeholder management
- Voice of the customer, facilitate business decisions, plan backlog and manage priority
- Ensure that the solution design aligns with business goals
- Engage business and technical team and facilitate decisions to priorities business need and for appropriate delivery and communicate technical solutions.
- Collaborating with cross functional teams
- Feedback handling
- Assess business needs and gaps that can be addressed through innovation
- Implementation planning
- Field business questions
- Attend Agile Ceremonies and clarify where required
- Ensure business requirements are met by technical delivery
- Ensure test scenarios cover entire business requirement
- Scope changes
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills to identify and resolve complex technical challenges in ETL processes and the technical aspects of Business Solutions Integration
- Understanding workflow
- Risk Tracking and Monitoring
If you are ready for the next exciting step in your career, and would like to apply, please send us your updated CV to review
Desired Skills:
- Business analysis
- Jira
- SAP
- Change Management
- Requirements Gathering
- User Acceptance Testing
- Analyse Business Processes
- Functional Specifications
- Business Requirements
- Data Analysis
- Agile