Front Arena Business Analyst I 1

About the Role

Front Arena Business Analyst -141581

Responsibilities

• TA: Luthando Bower
• Closing date : Ongoing
• Conduct and lead others on iterative and adaptive planning and monitoring tasks to estimate, organize and coordinate the BA efforts on large/complex enterprise initiatives
• Conduct and lead others on elicitation and collaboration tasks to obtain information from stakeholders and confirm the results
• Conduct and lead others on requirements analysis and design definition to structure, organize, specify and model requirements and designs, validate and verify information, identify solution options that meet business needs, and estimate the potential value that could be realized for each solution option
• Conduct and lead others on Requirements Life Cycle Management tasks to manage and maintain requirements and design information from inception to retirement
• Conduct and lead others on strategy analysis to define the future and transition states needed to address the business need
• Conduct and lead others on 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 and lead others on according to IIBA best practices, agile product delivery and lean principles based on Nedbank's delivery approach as per the BA methods
• Discover and deliver requirements based on changes across all seven product dimensions and requirements categories
• Understand/co-create the operational value streams, enterprise strategic themes, product roadmap, vision, KPIs and metrics
• Understand all elements of the portfolio, solution, program and team backlog
• Explore and articulate the opportunity/problem to be solved and identify stakeholder wants and needs to realise this and participate to define the proposed solution
• Use visual diagrams and collaborative games to model scope, interfaces, story context, data flows, processes, and Enterprisewide dependencies
• Document Epics/features/themes to analyse user stories - identify gaps, missing stories, 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 and ensure reuse of requirements
• Collaborate/co-create process and capability alignment by pairing with the PE and Architect
• Drive resolutions for impediments and spikes and enabler epics/stories, and synthesise the data to articulate requirements
• Drive collaboration with development/QA to identify test cases/scenarios, conduct UAT and train the trainer/user, support change management and the product manager with commercialisation
• Lead all aspects of Backlog Refinement and increment planning and champion DevOps & Built-in quality principles and limit WIP
• Analyse/document data requirements and model data flows/ ERDs through all 7 product dimensions on a portfolio level by pairing with BDMs
• Foster stakeholder relationships and engagement for backlog discovery and delivery, dependencies and enterprise delivery up to executive level
• Conduct system demos and contribute to I&A, implement suggestions and drive continuous improvement
• Actively participate and lead portfolio/squad ceremonies by pairing with SMs, ACs, POs, Epic/BITE Owners
• Champion minimum viable thinking by defining, prioritising, estimating and planning small increments to achieve increment plans
• Drive early remediation by reducing waste, rework, identify risks, issues and dependencies within scope and across projects

Requirements

• Professional Qualifications/Honour’s Degree
• 7 - 10 years
• Managerial : 1 - 2 years
• BA experience, manage multiple IT Projects and exposure to complex enterprise wide programmes, business and industry exposure and Lead BA role
• Research methodology
• Data and Business analysis
• Strategy planning and execution
• BA Body Of Knowledge
• Agile Concepts
• Process Engineering Skills
• Business Analysis Descipline , Techniques and Practices
• Global business analysis Trend
• Information Technology concepts
• Decision Making
• Technical/Professional Knowledge and Skills
• Driving Innovation
• Digital Acumen
• Coaching
• Building Networks
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Preferred Qualifications

• Certificate in BA endorsed by IIBA , SAFe and Agile Certification