Senior Feature Analyst at Old Mutual South Africa

Job Description

• The Senior Feature analyst takes overall responsibility for driving requirements by working closely with the Product Owner, Solutions Architect, Designers and Business stakeholders to design and implement industry-led solutions.
• Guiding and mentoring other feature analysts to deliver on business outcomes. Serve as thought leader for technical business processes that promote increased efficiency and productivity on multiple levels.
• Supporting the Product Manager /Product Owner in management activities, including scope management, stakeholder management and timely delivery

Requirements Management

• Analysis of "As Is" and "To Be"
• Business Requirements Identification
• Enterprise Business Analysis
• Feasibility Studies
• Horizon Scanning
• Business Case
• Documentation and Backup
• Culture of Innovation
• Agile Backlog Management
• Practice Leadership
• Agile Development Team Facilitation
• The senior feature analyst could operate with a team of feature analysts directly or indirectly reporting into the senior feature analyst and depends on the requirement of the team. The senior feature analyst works with the feature analyst practice lead to drive the feature analyst practice.

Requirements

• BA / IT qualification
• Business analysis certification

Experience / Skills

• 7 years plus years of experience as a business analyst or systems analyst in senior / strategic role
• Agile experience, with an understanding of the methodology and its principles
• Solid understanding and in-depth knowledge of Business and IT capabilities
• High level understanding of the architectural landscape
• Solid understanding of Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), REST, SOAP, GraphQL, JSON, XML, and API design standards
• Data Model Design & Management, Cross-functional Collaboration & Governance & Quality
• Insurance Product Expertise
• Strong technical knowledge and proven business and systems analysis skills at a senior level
• Experience in JIRA / Confluence / Figma / MIRO
• Business Process Modelling
• Experience in data interpretation
• Additional Requirements/Experience (Not a requirement)
• Bachelor’s degree in information technology, Computer Science or equivalent
• SAFe certification (advantageous)
• Lean Six Sigma Certification (advantageous)
• Financial Services experience
• Knowledge of Old Mutual products and processes (optional)
• Business Analyst certificates
• Behavioural competencies:
• Business acumen.
• Communication skills (oral & written).
• Elicitation and collaboration.
• Negotiation and facilitation.
• Conflict resolution.
• Decision making skills.
• Stakeholder management / relationship building skills.
• Problem solving and decision-making skills.
• Continuous improvement.
• Planning and prioritization.

Technical competencies:

• Business Analysis/ Feature Analysis / System Analysis.
• IT knowledge.
• Requirements gathering and management.
• Research & Information Gath

Skills

• Adaptive Thinking, Analytics Software, Application Development, Business Intelligence (BI) Analysis, Computer Literacy, Database Reporting, Data Compilation, Data Controls, Data Modeling, Data Recovery, Evaluating Information, Gaps Analysis, IT Architecture, Requirements Development, User Requirements Documentation

Competencies

Education

• NQF Level 7 - Degree, Advance Diploma or Postgraduate Certificate or equivalent  (Required)

Closing Date

• 14 October 2025