business analyst

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.

Your expertise:

5+ 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.

Experience in running workshops (JAD sessions), for requirement elicitation (As Is and To Be).

Worked on migration of system type projects (from old to new).

SQL Experience, as data migration also forms part of scope.

Azure DevOps experience (not just exposure).

At least 3 years’ experience in Agile Projects.

Able to read and interpret JSON and XML files.

Able to understand and work using the Behaviour Driven Development (BDD) Test-Driven Development (TDD) approach for new requirements that require development.

Qualifications:

Matric

Relevant IT/ BA Qualification

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.

Other information applicable to opportunity:

Initial contract until November 2025

Johannesburg: Hybrid way of work

Industries:Financial Services

Function: Web Development