Job Purpose
The
Business Analyst will be responsible for applying business analysis tasks and
techniques used to work as a liaison among stakeholders in the Business Units
in order to understand the structure, policies and operations, and to recommend
technical solutions that enable the Business Units to achieve their goals.
The
role is responsible for carrying out business analysis tasks, including the
identification and documentation of actionable user requirements in the form of
a Business Requirements Document.
Duties and Responsibilities
Strategic Planning (30%)
- Together with the architects, communicate
with the heads of their business units to understand their local
strategies, develop corresponding long-term plans for IT, negotiate these
plans with local business leaders and document the agreed plans for IT as
Considerations and Visions relevant for their business units
Initiative Delivery (70%)
- Participate in Initiative Delivery Step
1: Initialization, which entails definition of the BRD (by BA), Solution
Overview and Solution Designs (by Architects).
- Work with the teams that are writing
business cases for new initiatives, participate in writing of RFP
documents, work with product management teams to define solution features.
- Analysis and Documentation of
Requirements – The role will be responsible for the analysis of Business
Requirements and documenting Business Requirements Documents (BRD) using
documents from business teams such as Product Management, for example
documents on Confluence, and screen mock-ups. The BRD will clearly define
the requirements from a technical perspective, documenting details of new
solution technical capabilities and/or how existing solutions will be
modified to provide the desired technical capabilities.
- Requirements assessment and
validation: The role must test requirements (prior to
implementation) to ensure that they meet stakeholder objectives and are
technically sound. In order to do this, the role must develop the master
test plan, which is developed to test the requirements, and which may also
be responsible for Technical Quality Assurance once the final project
deliverables are ready.
- Management, Communication and Control of
Business Requirements: Using the Requirements Work Plan, the role shall
manage the business analysis process; the role shall also manage changes
to documents and requirements and the RWP; track status of tasks in the
RWP; communicate with stakeholders such as the project manager, business
sponsor, and others involved in the business analysis and project
management process.
- Assists the architects to write Solution
Overviews and Solution Designs based on the BRD
- Communicate with other analysts and
business analysts to enable global optimization of strategic IT-related
decisions.
Job Specifications
Academic:
- A Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science,
Computer Engineering, Information Technology or related field of study
from a recognized university.
- Preferably certified in CBAP
Desired work experience:
- At least 3 years background in
software development inclusive of databases, applications, infrastructure,
cloud technologies.
- Familiarity with DevOps, Agile working
and CICD
- Experience in writing formal Use Cases
and other UML tools
- Experience in software development
lifecycle management using waterfall, agile & hybrid methodologies.
Job Competencies
Technical Competencies
Overall
understanding of the essential IT-related processes and common IT management
best practices in different areas including, among others, the following
IT-related topics:
- Business analysis skills – carrying out
analysis on business requirements to produce a BRD that can be converted
to technical designs
- Project management – delivering new IT
projects in a well-organized and predictable manner on time and budget
- Excellent systems analytical and
communication (written and verbal) skills along with meeting facilitation
skills
- Release management – organizing the
system rollout through different stages and environments, e.g.
development, testing and production
- Service management – controlling the
quality of provided IT services, e.g. service level agreements (SLAs)
- Ability to explain the implications of
various IT-related planning decisions for the business of an organization
to a wide business audience.
- Familiar with various business decision
supporting tools (e.g. SWOT analysis, value chain, BCG matrix, etc.)
- Aware of popular investment calculation
and business case assessment techniques.
Behavioural Competencies
- Ability to articulate the business
strategy, competitive advantages, business capabilities and processes.
- An understanding of organizational
politics and culture to be able to effectively promote their decisions and
cope with potential resistance.
- Ability to communicate and influence
others.
- Readiness for finding the middle ground
between conflicting opinions and need
- Willingness to trade local advantages for
global benefits
- Readiness to follow and commit to
collective decisions, plans and courses of action regardless of personal
opinion.
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