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Senior T24 Business Analysts
Nairobi, NairobiTERMS OF REFERENCE SENIOR BUSINESS ANALYST - T24 CORE BANKING SYSTEM
1.0 JOB PURPOSE
Responsible for eliciting, analysing, validating, specifying, verifying, and managing the business needs of the business stakeholders, including customers and end users. The person is responsible for bridging the gap between business requirements and technical solutions for T24 Core Banking system functionalities and integrations. The person is a Techno-functional Analyst who has sound understanding of Temenos Transact (T24) design & architecture and can recommend appropriate implementation approaches to meet business requirements. The analyst will also act as a functional expert in core Transact modules who recommends and guides on appropriate configurations and parameterizations to achieve the desired business objectives. The person shall translate business requirements into T24 functional delivery.
2.0 RESPONSIBILITIES: • Work closely with business SMEs and product analysts to understand and document functional and non-functional requirements and leads the requirements elicitation, analysis, validation, and verification, ensuring that requirement statements are complete, consistent, concise, comprehensible, traceable, feasible, unambiguous, and verifiable.
• Perform Technical requirement analysis and design for all interfaces/integrations and generate the necessary detailed work products including T24 Interface requirements and specifications documents.
• Work closely with solution architects and other business/product/technical SMEs to perform low level solution, process and product designs and participate in design and architecture reviews and recommend improvements to existing T24 technical, business processes and products to meet the bank’s requirements in accordance with enterprise architecture road map.
• Work with the partners and internal development teams to implement modules & product configurations and customizations in T24 CBS as per functional and Technical specifications based Temenos implementation standards.
• Work with the implementation partner, development teams and Quality Assurance and Testing teams in developing and reviewing test scripts and scenarios for all test types including Integration Tests and System Acceptance Tests to ensure accuracy, coverage, and conformity to requirements.
• Participates in the management and execution of various levels of solution testing including unit testing, system integration testing, user acceptance and regression tests and post implementation sanity tests.
• Promote proper release planning, guaranteeing adherence to business needs and priorities and keep stakeholders constantly up to date on progress.
• Manage requirements traceability information and track requirements status throughout the project.
• Manage business relationships with different business functions and stake holders and participates in the prioritization of initiatives based on business needs and requirements.
• Review the current deployment approach and evaluate / propose / expose opportunities for enhancing the deployment model for new and existing solutions.
3.0 SKILLS & EXPERIENCES: For the above position, the successful applicant should have the following: • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Information Technology, or a related field of study
• ITIL Foundation, Certified Business Analysis Professional (CBAP), TOGAF Certification
• PRINCE II (Practitioner) / AgilePM / PMI-ACP / Certified Agile Project Manager (IAPM) / Certified Scrum Master (CSM) is added advantage
• Master’s degree in Business Administration or Project Management is added advantage
• Minimum 5+ years experience in Information Technology
• Minimum 3 years experience in Business analysis and architecture.
• Minimum 2 years experience in T24 System Support & Maintenance
• Minimum 3 years experience with Temenos T24 Core Banking System Implementations/Upgrades/ Enhancements
• Knowledge of agile development methodologies using the Sprint/Scrum methodology of agile applied in IT Projects
• Experience in T24 design and architecture, product upgrades, configurations/parameters required for customizing the T24 to accommodate business requirements.
• Knowledge in Accounting & Finance behaviour of T24 and experience and supporting GL reconciliation/corrections.
• Knowledge and experience in Temenos T24 Design Studio, Integration & interaction frameworks, TAFC/TAFJ run time environments and Temenos Web Services (TWS/IRIS).
• Knowledge of Temenos Implementation Methodology and agile methodology
• Demonstrated knowledge and understanding of Linux/Unix Operating Systems.
• Experience working in a fast-paced agile environment.
1.0 JOB PURPOSE
Responsible for eliciting, analysing, validating, specifying, verifying, and managing the business needs of the business stakeholders, including customers and end users. The person is responsible for bridging the gap between business requirements and technical solutions for T24 Core Banking system functionalities and integrations. The person is a Techno-functional Analyst who has sound understanding of Temenos Transact (T24) design & architecture and can recommend appropriate implementation approaches to meet business requirements. The analyst will also act as a functional expert in core Transact modules who recommends and guides on appropriate configurations and parameterizations to achieve the desired business objectives. The person shall translate business requirements into T24 functional delivery.
2.0 RESPONSIBILITIES: • Work closely with business SMEs and product analysts to understand and document functional and non-functional requirements and leads the requirements elicitation, analysis, validation, and verification, ensuring that requirement statements are complete, consistent, concise, comprehensible, traceable, feasible, unambiguous, and verifiable.
• Perform Technical requirement analysis and design for all interfaces/integrations and generate the necessary detailed work products including T24 Interface requirements and specifications documents.
• Work closely with solution architects and other business/product/technical SMEs to perform low level solution, process and product designs and participate in design and architecture reviews and recommend improvements to existing T24 technical, business processes and products to meet the bank’s requirements in accordance with enterprise architecture road map.
• Work with the partners and internal development teams to implement modules & product configurations and customizations in T24 CBS as per functional and Technical specifications based Temenos implementation standards.
• Work with the implementation partner, development teams and Quality Assurance and Testing teams in developing and reviewing test scripts and scenarios for all test types including Integration Tests and System Acceptance Tests to ensure accuracy, coverage, and conformity to requirements.
• Participates in the management and execution of various levels of solution testing including unit testing, system integration testing, user acceptance and regression tests and post implementation sanity tests.
• Promote proper release planning, guaranteeing adherence to business needs and priorities and keep stakeholders constantly up to date on progress.
• Manage requirements traceability information and track requirements status throughout the project.
• Manage business relationships with different business functions and stake holders and participates in the prioritization of initiatives based on business needs and requirements.
• Review the current deployment approach and evaluate / propose / expose opportunities for enhancing the deployment model for new and existing solutions.
3.0 SKILLS & EXPERIENCES: For the above position, the successful applicant should have the following: • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Information Technology, or a related field of study
• ITIL Foundation, Certified Business Analysis Professional (CBAP), TOGAF Certification
• PRINCE II (Practitioner) / AgilePM / PMI-ACP / Certified Agile Project Manager (IAPM) / Certified Scrum Master (CSM) is added advantage
• Master’s degree in Business Administration or Project Management is added advantage
• Minimum 5+ years experience in Information Technology
• Minimum 3 years experience in Business analysis and architecture.
• Minimum 2 years experience in T24 System Support & Maintenance
• Minimum 3 years experience with Temenos T24 Core Banking System Implementations/Upgrades/ Enhancements
• Knowledge of agile development methodologies using the Sprint/Scrum methodology of agile applied in IT Projects
• Experience in T24 design and architecture, product upgrades, configurations/parameters required for customizing the T24 to accommodate business requirements.
• Knowledge in Accounting & Finance behaviour of T24 and experience and supporting GL reconciliation/corrections.
• Knowledge and experience in Temenos T24 Design Studio, Integration & interaction frameworks, TAFC/TAFJ run time environments and Temenos Web Services (TWS/IRIS).
• Knowledge of Temenos Implementation Methodology and agile methodology
• Demonstrated knowledge and understanding of Linux/Unix Operating Systems.
• Experience working in a fast-paced agile environment.