Lead Solution Analyst at Absa Group Limited (Absa)

Job Summary

• The Plum team within CIB Risk and Finance Tech is looking for a Lead Analyst with development experience to work in high complexity environments, fully embedded in a DevOps team, leveraging specialist analysis tools, frameworks, techniques and practices to elicit, define and organize business requirements, across multiple stakeholder groups.
• Translate & document these business requirements into user stories  & specifications (Full Stack, Cross System) detailing integration points, business & associated risk / opportunities to be realised.
• And following this analysis, work collaboratively within squads to ensure the business requirements are met through DevOps design & delivery activity & lead the application of testing processes & frameworks ensuring all products & services are effectively tested.  
• Business complexity is determined by:  
• Customer Impact
• Number of integration points:
• Data
• Teams to talk to
• Systems
• Enabling function
• 3rd party vs. internal  
• Complexity of business rules & Processes
• Level of operational readiness  
• Introduction of new or changing old Tech (e.g. redo platforms)

Job Description

Key critical requirements:

• Use SQL to develop and implement procedures and functions
• Create ongoing Regulatory requirements for technical implementation
• Ability to understand data and its data structures
• Build appropriate and useful reporting deliverables
• Analyze existing SQL queries for performance improvements
• Suggest new queries
• Develop procedures and scripts for data loads
• Investigate exceptions with regard to data and data movements
• Analysis (including Business Case)
• Solution Design (within DevOps Context)
• Solution Delivery and Testing (manual)
• Process Design and Modelling
• Provide coaching and mentoring across the DevOps team as well as to developing analysts across the estate
• Build strong analysis capability across the analysis team

Skills and experience required:

• Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or relevant degree
• 8+ years business and systems analysis experience
• Experience in working with multidisciplinary teams
• Experience in Agile Methodology and working embedded within an Agile team / teams
• Exposure to Investment Banking would be beneficial
• Exposure to Banking / Credit Regulatory reporting. eg (Credit, IFRS9, EC and Reg)
• Excellent understanding of SQL programming
• Exposure to Hadoop will be a beneficial
• Expertise in Systems Design and Integration
• Development experience
• Business Continuity Management and Disaster Recovery
• Expertise in Governance, Compliance and Audit
• Experience in Quality Assurance and Testing
• Critical thinker and a team player
• Good time-management skills and problem-solving skills
• Great interpersonal and communication skills

Education

• Bachelor's Degree: Information Technology