Senior Business Analyst LW - Midrand at Mediro Recruitment

Description

• Working closely with an architect and product owners to take responsibility for a successful re-engineering of a major production critical application.
• Write specifications for high-level concepts into meaningful information from which user stories can be created.
• Deeply understand complex business concepts and then explain these to developers in simple ways. Be a source of truth for business-related queries by the developers. Be a link between business in Germany and developers in South Africa.
• Understanding the business needs in a complex environment with multiple applications and interfaces that are all related.
• Active involvement in sprint refinements to influence the creation of efficient user stories. Also, they create user stories, themselves with DOR and DOD.
• Responsible for working closely with the Product Owners to ensure a prioritized backlog with good-quality user stories.
• Understanding of systems engineering concepts and managing business processes.
• Implement advanced strategies for gathering, reviewing, and analyzing functional requirements.
• Additional tasks such as performing POCs and creating mock-ups.
• User acceptance/business testing (also technical testing).
• Strong working knowledge of data tools, techniques, and approaches used in application solutions.
• Pro-active knowledge sharing, mentoring, and coaching of members from the same or other teams.

Minimum Requirements

• Relevant Engineering/IT/Business Degree
• 5+ years of Business Analyst experience
• 10+ years of IT/systems experience.
• Experience in writing specifications and user stories and gaining deep business knowledge understanding.
• Business analyst
• Responsibility, activator, achiever, self-starter, someone who takes initiative, goes the extra mile and can drive themselves in unfamiliar territory.
• Excellent understanding of Agile Working principles.
• Ability to write specifications for high-level concepts into meaningful information from which user stories can be created.
• Ability to absorb complex business knowledge and transfer that to the developers.
• Good relationship-building and Team-player skills.
• Leadership skills.

Advantageous:

• Strong technical background.
• Development background especially in Java and AWS.
• Experience in software testing.
• Project management skills.
• Fluent in German (speaking and writing)