We're seeking a Senior Feature/ Business Analyst to join our team! If you're ready for your new opportunity based in Johannesburg, please get in contact.
What you’ll do:
- Consult to various clients, and their stakeholders, to understand their value chain, structure, functions, and products and/or services.
- Building and maintaining strong relationships with clients and acting as a consultant on the projects or applications.
- Challenge the business in their thinking, especially to understand the intent of the business requirement.
- With little supervision, elicit, gather, analyse, document, validate and communicate business requirements (User Stories and Acceptance Criteria)
- Write clear and concise user stories, epics, and features aligned with the INVEST principles to support effective agile development.
- Collaborate with the business to build and maintain a well-prioritized backlog, ensuring delivery teams have a continuous flow of valuable work.
- Conduct in-depth product analysis by developing strong knowledge of the existing product and identifying opportunities for improvement and innovation.
- Operate as a Feature Analyst by decomposing business initiatives into features and capabilities that can be delivered incrementally across multiple systems and platforms.
- Perform system analysis activities including functional decomposition, data analysis, interface analysis, and definition of system behaviours to support solution design and development.
- Collaborate closely with Solution Architects and development teams to ensure business requirements are technically feasible, well understood, and aligned to solution architecture.
- Analyse and document end-to-end business and system processes, identifying upstream and downstream impacts across integrated systems.
- Support delivery within regulated environments by ensuring requirements consider auditability, security, data privacy, and compliance constraints typical of banking and financial services.
Your expertise:
- At least 8 years’ experience in Business Analysis across a custom software development environment.
- Experienced with Scrum Principles in an Agile Environment.
- Proven project experience in writing user stories, epics, features, in line with the INVEST principles of agile
- At least 3 years’ experience in Agile Projects
- Working knowledge of (OAS) Open API specification 2.0 and 3.0
- Able to read and interpret JSON and XML files
- Agile Certification (advantageous)
- Able to understand and work using the Behaviour Driven Development (BDD) & Test-Driven Development (TDD) approach for new requirements that require development.
- Experience translating business requirements into detailed functional and non-functional system requirements suitable for complex, integrated platforms.
- Strong data analysis skills, including understanding of data models, data flows, and data quality considerations across systems.
- Experience working with integration patterns, APIs, and event-driven architectures common in enterprise and banking environments.
- Ability to support solution estimation, identify requirement level risks, and manage dependency impacts across features and systems.
Qualifications:- Formal qualification such as a B. Com or BSc, diploma or certification (IIBA or similar)
Personal Attributes:
- A proven ability to work across multiple project teams at a given time
- Demonstrated ability of high levels of communication skills – both verbally and written
- Strong problem solving, communication and presentation skills
- Ability to work under pressure towards predetermined/ established business objectives
- Comfortable operating in complex, high-change environments with multiple stakeholders, systems, and delivery dependencies
Further details:
- Contract position
- Location: Johannesburg (Hybrid way of work)
- Seniority level: Senior (8+ years)
- Industry experience: Financial Services/ Banking would be beneficial
Why work for us?
Want to work for an organization that solves complex real-world problems with innovative software solutions? At iOCO, we believe anything is possible with modern technology, software, and development expertise. We are continuously pushing the boundaries of innovative solutions across multiple industries using an array of technologies.?
You will be part of a consultancy, working with some of the most knowledgeable minds in the industry on interesting solutions across different business domains.?
Our culture of continuous learning will ensure that you will have all the opportunities, tools, and support to hone and grow your craft.?
By joining IOCO you will have an open invitation to developer inspiring forums. A place where you will be able to connect and learn from and with your peers by sharing ideas, experiences, practices, and solutions.?
iOCO is an equal opportunity employer with an obligation to achieve its own unique EE objectives in the context of Employment Equity targets. Therefore, our employment strategy gives primary preference to previously disadvantaged individuals or groups.