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Senior Business Analyst
Nairobi, Nairobi1.0 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. The analyst will collaborate with cross-functional teams including business units, subject matter experts and technical resources to gather and document business and technical requirements, analyse, and validate the requirements, and contribute to the successful delivery of projects.
2.0 RESPONSIBILITIES:
• Lead requirements elicitation, analysis, validation, and verification, ensuring that requirement statements are complete, consistent, concise, comprehensible, traceable, feasible, unambiguous, and verifiable.
• Document business, technical requirements, and functional specifications as per set standards and transfer the same knowledge to the development team.
• Review and validate test cases and test scenarios for accuracy, coverage, and conformity to requirements.
• Participate in creation of solution architecture and designs to meet business requirements through existing systems or by filling missing gaps with appropriately new systems in accordance with enterprise architecture road map.
• Ensure that technology systems are aligned with business processes and engage business stakeholders in process reviews to ensure cost optimizations and improved turnaround time.
• Promote proper release planning, guaranteeing adherence to business needs and priorities and keep stakeholders constantly up to date on progress.
• Participates in the management and execution of various levels of solution testing including user acceptance and regression tests and post implementation sanity tests.
• 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 is required
• PRINCE II (Practitioner) / AgilePM / PMI-ACP / Certified Agile Project Manager (IAPM) / Certified Scrum Master (CSM) is an added advantage
• Master’s degree in Business Administration or Project Management is an added advantage
• Must have 5+ years experience in Information Technology
• Minimum of 3 years experience in Business analysis and architecture is required
• Minimum of 4 years experience in IT Projects is required
• Minimum of 2 years experience in Emerging Technologies (e.g. Mobile, Internet Banking, Cloud, Microservices etc) is essential
• Minimum of 2 years experience in Systems & Applications Support is desirable
• Experience working in a fast-paced agile environment.
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills.
• Excellent planning, organisation, problem-solving and analytical skills. 2
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. The analyst will collaborate with cross-functional teams including business units, subject matter experts and technical resources to gather and document business and technical requirements, analyse, and validate the requirements, and contribute to the successful delivery of projects.
2.0 RESPONSIBILITIES:
• Lead requirements elicitation, analysis, validation, and verification, ensuring that requirement statements are complete, consistent, concise, comprehensible, traceable, feasible, unambiguous, and verifiable.
• Document business, technical requirements, and functional specifications as per set standards and transfer the same knowledge to the development team.
• Review and validate test cases and test scenarios for accuracy, coverage, and conformity to requirements.
• Participate in creation of solution architecture and designs to meet business requirements through existing systems or by filling missing gaps with appropriately new systems in accordance with enterprise architecture road map.
• Ensure that technology systems are aligned with business processes and engage business stakeholders in process reviews to ensure cost optimizations and improved turnaround time.
• Promote proper release planning, guaranteeing adherence to business needs and priorities and keep stakeholders constantly up to date on progress.
• Participates in the management and execution of various levels of solution testing including user acceptance and regression tests and post implementation sanity tests.
• 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 is required
• PRINCE II (Practitioner) / AgilePM / PMI-ACP / Certified Agile Project Manager (IAPM) / Certified Scrum Master (CSM) is an added advantage
• Master’s degree in Business Administration or Project Management is an added advantage
• Must have 5+ years experience in Information Technology
• Minimum of 3 years experience in Business analysis and architecture is required
• Minimum of 4 years experience in IT Projects is required
• Minimum of 2 years experience in Emerging Technologies (e.g. Mobile, Internet Banking, Cloud, Microservices etc) is essential
• Minimum of 2 years experience in Systems & Applications Support is desirable
• Experience working in a fast-paced agile environment.
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills.
• Excellent planning, organisation, problem-solving and analytical skills. 2