Senior Feature Analyst (iOCO0102) at iOCO

Job Description

• We're seeking a Senior Feature/ Business Analyst to join our team! If you're ready for your new opportunity based in Johannesburg, please get in contact.

What you’ll do:

• Consult to various clients, and their stakeholders, to understand their value chain, structure, functions, and products and/or services.
• Building and maintaining strong relationships with clients and acting as a consultant on the projects or applications.
• Challenge the business in their thinking, especially to understand the intent of the business requirement.
• With little supervision, elicit, gather, analyse, document, validate and communicate business requirements (User Stories and Acceptance Criteria)
• Write clear and concise user stories, epics, and features aligned with the INVEST principles to support effective agile development.
• Collaborate with the business to build and maintain a well-prioritized backlog, ensuring delivery teams have a continuous flow of valuable work.
• Conduct in-depth product analysis by developing strong knowledge of the existing product and identifying opportunities for improvement and innovation.
• Operate as a Feature Analyst by decomposing business initiatives into features and capabilities that can be delivered incrementally across multiple systems and platforms.
• Perform system analysis activities including functional decomposition, data analysis, interface analysis, and definition of system behaviours to support solution design and development.
• Collaborate closely with Solution Architects and development teams to ensure business requirements are technically feasible, well understood, and aligned to solution architecture.
• Analyse and document end-to-end business and system processes, identifying upstream and downstream impacts across integrated systems.
• Support delivery within regulated environments by ensuring requirements consider auditability, security, data privacy, and compliance constraints typical of banking and financial services.

Your expertise:

• At least 8 years’ experience in Business Analysis across a custom software development environment.
• Experienced with Scrum Principles in an Agile Environment.
• Proven project experience in writing user stories, epics, features, in line with the INVEST principles of agile
• At least 3 years’ experience in Agile Projects
• Working knowledge of (OAS) Open API specification 2.0 and 3.0
• Able to read and interpret JSON and XML files
• Agile Certification (advantageous)
• Able to understand and work using the Behaviour Driven Development (BDD) & Test-Driven Development (TDD) approach for new requirements that require development.
• Experience translating business requirements into detailed functional and non-functional system requirements suitable for complex, integrated platforms.
• Strong data analysis skills, including understanding of data models, data flows, and data quality considerations across systems.
• Experience working with integration patterns, APIs, and event-driven architectures common in enterprise and banking environments.
• Ability to support solution estimation, identify requirement level risks, and manage dependency impacts across features and systems.

Qualifications:

• Formal qualification such as a B. Com or BSc, diploma or certification (IIBA or similar)

Personal Attributes:

• A proven ability to work across multiple project teams at a given time
• Demonstrated ability of high levels of communication skills – both verbally and written
• Strong problem solving, communication and presentation skills
• Ability to work under pressure towards predetermined/ established business objectives
• Comfortable operating in complex, high-change environments with multiple stakeholders, systems, and delivery dependencies

Further details:

• Contract position
• Location: Johannesburg (Hybrid way of work)
• Seniority level: Senior (8+ years)
• Industry experience: Financial Services/ Banking would be beneficial