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  • Posted: May 26, 2026
    Deadline: Not specified
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    Pretoria Regional Head for the Business and Commercial Bank

    Description:

    • Lead the regional business and commercial bank division with strategic vision and entrepreneurial thinking. Drive sustainable growth across lending and transactional banking, embed risk and governance, and deliver client-centric solutions that create meaningful impact. This role requires a leader who can simplify complexity, inspire confidence, and foster innovation across the division, in line with Investec's purpose & values.

    Key Responsibilities

    Relationship Management: 

    • Build deep, trusted relationships with clients, partners, and internal stakeholders.
    • Drive entrenchment within the client base via product offering, and integration between product specializations across lending and transactional banking.
    • A key focus is on increasing utilisation and facility growth of both transactional and lending products into clients, with a view to greater revenue generation for the bank
    • Deliver on the strategies developed to enhance client experience and partnership
    • Collaborate with Specialist Bank divisions to unlock opportunities for clients.

    Business Development: 

    • Execute sales strategies across lending and transactional banking within the region, both for new and existing clients, in conjunction with national leadership of BCB. 
    • Shape and execute plans that consider regional nuances, that deliver accelerated growth. Daily oversight of new business development and solutioning, in conjunction with the heads of these functions. 
    • Identify and pursue new business opportunities in lending and transactional banking externally and within the bank. 
    • Represent Investec at client and industry forums to enhance brand visibility.

    Financial Management: 

    • Joint responsibility, together with frontline leaders, for regional P&L, revenue, and cost control. Manage budgets effectively, identifying opportunities for profitability and efficiency.

    Team Leadership: 

    • Recruit, mentor, and empower a high-performing team of relationship managers, new business developers and solutioning consultants. 
    • Champion talent development, succession planning, and inclusive leadership. 
    • Drive and measure performance relative to KPIs, including showing up within the Investec culture and values.
    • Represent BCB on the Pretoria Regional Management Forum, building relationships across leadership within the region

    Market Analysis & Marketing: 

    • Monitor market trends and competitor activity to inform strategy. 
    • Guide marketing campaigns, events and budgets to attract and retain clients.

    Risk & Compliance:

    • Embed robust risk, compliance, and governance frameworks across the division. Ensure adherence to regulatory requirements and best practices.

    Qualifications, Experience and Skills

    • Strong commercial acumen and deep understanding of financial services products, including lending and transactional banking.
    • FAIS accreditation (required to operate as a licensed representative for intermediary services across long  and short term deposits) preferred.
    • Proven leadership and people management capability.
    • Analytical skills for interpreting data and driving insights.
    • Experience in contract negotiation, risk assessment, and P&L management.
    • Relevant tertiary qualifications (Finance, Accounting, Business) and professional certifications are advantageous.
    • Extensive experience in commercial banking leadership with full P&L responsibility.
    • Track record of delivering growth and managing complexity.
    • Strong credit and risk management experience.
    • Expertise in budgets, forecasts, and marketing campaigns.

    Leadership Attributes

    • Entrepreneurial mindset with strategic agility.
    • Ability to inspire and lead diverse, high-performing teams.
    • Skilled relationship builder across internal and external networks.
    • Comfortable with ambiguity and able to challenge convention constructively.
    • Forward-thinking, simplifying complexity while driving innovation.
    • Inclusive leadership fosters creativity, integrity, and courage

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    Oracle Cloud Engineer (ITS)

    Description

    • Investec is looking for a Oracle Cloud Engineer to build, and operate a secure, compliant, and scalable Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) foundation by supporting the OCI Landing Zone, governance guardrails, and Infrastructure as Code (IaC) patterns, ensuring cloud environments are production‑ready, policy‑driven, and aligned to enterprise and regulatory standards.

    Key Responsibilities

    • Design, implement, and evolve the OCI Landing Zone in line with enterprise cloud principles.
    • Define standard OCI tenancy structures, compartments, identity domains, networking, and shared services.
    • Establish repeatable account/compartment vending processes for new workloads and teams.
    • Maintain reference architectures for OCI IaaS and PaaS workloads.
    • Build and maintain reusable, versioned Terraform modules for OCI infrastructure.
    • Enforce IaC only provisioning principles (no manual drift).
    • Design CI/CD pipelines for plan/apply, validation, security scanning, and policy checks.
    • Implement state management, promotion strategies, and change controls for environments.
    • Implement and manage OCI guardrails including: 
    • IAM policies and least privilege access
    • Network segmentation and security lists / NSGs
    • Tagging and cost management standards
    • Resource quotas and service limits
    • Integrate policy as code and automated compliance checks.
    • Embed architectural and security guardrails into provisioning workflows.
    • Support audit, risk, and regulatory evidence requirements.
    • Partner with Information Security to embed security by design.
    • Implement OCI native security services (e.g. Cloud Guard, Bastion, Vault, Logging).
    • Integrate with centralised systems (e.g. WIZ, Splunk, Beyondtrust) 
    • Ensure encryption, key management, identity federation, and secure access patterns.
    • Contribute to threat modelling, risk assessments, and remediation initiatives.
    • Design and implement OCI networking patterns including VCNs, DRGs, routing, and segmentation.
    • Integrate OCI with on prem and other cloud platforms.
    • Ensure network designs meet performance, resilience, and security requirements.
    • Define day 2 operational patterns for OCI foundations.
    • Produce runbooks, support models, and handover artefacts to CloudOps.
    • Support incident investigations, root cause analysis, and platform improvements.
    • Ensure environments meet resilience, backup, and DR expectations.
    • Provide enablement to engineering teams consuming OCI.
    • Create documentation, patterns, and “how to” guides.
    • Act as a trusted advisor to architects and delivery teams on OCI design choices.
    • Contribute to internal cloud standards, blueprints, and practice communities.

    Qualifications, Experience and Skills

    • OCI Landing Zone implemented and maintained, including tenancy, compartments, IAM, networking, logging, and shared services.
    • Standardized, reusable Terraform modules published, versioned, and consumed by delivery teams.
    • Automated environment provisioning with embedded governance and security guardrails.
    • Documented OCI reference architectures aligned to enterprise standards.
    • Implemented cloud guardrails covering identity, network security, tagging, cost controls, and service quotas.
    • CI/CD pipelines for OCI infrastructure with validation, policy enforcement, and auditability.
    • Operational artefacts include runbooks, diagrams, support models, and escalation paths.
    • Audit and compliance evidence for OCI environments.
    • Enablement materials and onboarding guidance for teams adopting OCI.
    • Continuous improvement backlog for OCI platform evolution.
    • Strong hands-on experience with Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI). 
    • Deep understanding of OCI: 
    • Tenancies, compartments, identity domains
    • OCI networking (VCNs, DRGs, routing, security)
    • Compute, Storage, and core OCI services
    • Strong Terraform expertise (at scale, multi environment). 
    • Experience implementing cloud landing zones and governance frameworks. 
    • Solid understanding of cloud security, IAM, networking, and compliance. 
    • Experience in integrating cloud platforms into hybrid environments. 
    • Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines for infrastructure. 
    • Working knowledge of FinOps principles and cloud cost management.

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    New Business Developer Team Leader

    Role description

    • To lead a team of New Business Development (NBD) bankers responsible for originating high-quality, bankable commercial opportunities. The role focuses on driving disciplined lead generation, ensuring rigorous qualification, and delivering a strong pipeline of opportunities for Investec Business & Commercial Banking.

    Responsibilities:

    Team Leadership & Performance

    • Lead, coach and develop a team of NBD bankers
    • Drive a high-performance, accountable team culture
    • Manage delivery against defined KPI framework (input, quality, outcome)

    Lead Generation Execution

    • Drive execution across internal referrals, partnerships, and outbound channels
    • Ensure consistent pipeline generation aligned to target sectors
    • Develop deep sector knowledge within the team
    • Implement industry-specific playbooks and approaches
    • Support bankers in building strong industry networks
    • Monitor sector pipeline performance and refine targeting

    Qualification & Pipeline Quality

    • Embed and enforce qualification discipline (e.g. BANK-FIT framework)
    • Enable processing of opportunities at New Business Forum and Deal Forum.
    • Review and challenge opportunity quality before handover
    • Help team progress opportunities to conversion, including Letters of Intent where relevant.

    Stakeholder Management

    • Partner closely with coverage, credit, and product teams
    • Facilitate effective internal referrals across Investec divisions
    • Ensure strong alignment and collaboration across stakeholders

    Handover & Conversion

    • Ensure smooth and structured handover of opportunities into relationship management teams
    • Track conversion rates and pipeline progression
    • Support early-stage client engagement where required

    Reporting & Insights

    • Monitor pipeline performance and banker productivity
    • Provide insights on lead quality, conversion, and sector trends
    • Support continuous improvement through feedback loops

    Qualifications, Experience and Skills

    • 7–10+ years in Commercial or Corporate Banking
    • Experience in business development and origination
    • Demonstrated leadership or team management capability
    • Strong understanding of credit and banking products
    • Advanced computer literacy (Excel, PowerPoint, Word)
    • Able to build and maintain strong internal and external relationships
    • Contributes positively to team culture and collaboration
    • Strong commercial and credit acumen
    • Leadership and coaching capability
    • Execution discipline and attention to detail
    • Strong stakeholder management and collaboration skills
    • Results-driven with a focus on quality over activity
    • Commercial Minded with Sound Credit Judgement

    Key Success Measures

    • Quality and volume of pipeline generated by the team
    • Conversion rates from qualified lead, new business forum, deal forum 
    • New client commercial quality
    • Team productivity and development
    • Strength of sector pipelines and referral channels

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    New Business Developer- BCB

    Role description

    • The New Business Developer is responsible for originating and converting new business clients for Investec Business & Commercial Banking through a disciplined, solution-led acquisitions approach.
    • The role focuses on building a high-quality pipeline of mid-market clients, identifying transactional, lending, investments and insurance opportunities, and positioning Investec as a differentiated banking partner through deep client understanding, strategic solutioning, and cross-divisional collaboration.
    • This is not a product-push role. The incumbent must demonstrate the ability to diagnose client needs, structure appropriate solutions, and convert opportunities into long-term, multi-product relationships within the Investec Group.

    Responsibilities:

    New Business Origination & Pipeline Management

    • Develop and execute a structured acquisition strategy within a defined mid-market target segment.
    • Build and maintain a continuous, qualified pipeline aligned to Investec's risk appetite.
    • Source new clients through direct outreach, networking, referrals, and industry engagement.
    • Present opportunities at New Business Forum and Deal Forum with clear articulation of business model, risks and mitigants.
    • Drive signed Letters of Intent (where applicable) 

    Client Engagement & Solutioning

    • Conduct structured client discovery to identify full banking requirements and opportunities.
    • Analyse financial statements and cash flow drivers before recommending solutions.
    • Position Investec as a strategic partner.
    • Engage specialist teams as required.

    Commercial & Credit Discipline

    • Assess profitability, cash flow sustainability and debt serviceability.
    • Apply first-line credit judgment aligned to target market criteria.
    • Partner with Credit teams to structure bankable, risk-appropriate facilities.
    • Present full CVP proposals including appropriate pricing structures for a sustainable return on capital.

    Collaboration & Cross-Sell Enablement

    • Act as a connector across the Investec Group.
    • Drive ecosystem banking and multi-product engagement.
    • Demonstrate measurable cross-divisional collaboration.

    Qualifications, Experience and Skills

    • B.Com degree or relevant finance qualification (advantageous).
    • FAIS accreditation (required to operate as a licensed representative for intermediary services across long‑ and short‑term deposits).
    • Proven business development experience within the mid‑market segment (R30m – R500m+ turnover), with a strong track record in originating, structuring and closing transactions.
    • Solid understanding of commercial banking solutions, including transactional capabilities, working capital, asset‑backed lending, debt structuring and related credit principles.
    • Strong financial acumen with the ability to interpret and analyse financial statements.
    • Exposure to Trade Finance, Import Solutions, Asset Finance, and transactional banking products such as merchant acquiring, debit order collections, corporate credit cards, overdrafts and system integrations (advantageous).
    • Experience working with high‑growth entrepreneurial businesses and an established professional network within defined industry sectors (advantageous).
    • Demonstrated negotiation capability and confidence engaging with multiple internal and external stakeholders.
    • Ability to operate independently while contributing effectively within a collaborative, high‑performance team environment.

    Key Competencies

    • New Business Development & Sales
    • Commercial Acumen
    • Structured Thinking
    • Relationship Building & Depth
    • Collaboration
    • Resilience & Drive
    • Adaptability

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    Machine Learning Engineer

    • The PB Data team serves as a strategic partner within our Private Bank business, managing the full lifecycle of data and machine learning capabilities — from data ingestion and feature engineering to model deployment, integration, and continuous improvement.
    • A core component of this capability is the Insights Engine, which is being established as the central ML and AI platform across the bank. The Insights Engine enables the scalable delivery of intelligent decisioning, supporting the bank's digital and growth strategy.

    The business strategy incorporates key objectives such as:

    • Growth (client acquisition and entrenchment, particularly in the Affluent segment) 
    • Enhanced client engagement (personalised digital experiences and intelligent decisioning) 
    • Cost reduction (automation and optimisation of servicing through digital channels) 
    • From a technology perspective, the organisation is transitioning into the cloud, with a strong focus on:
    • Building all new ML capabilities in cloud-native environments 
    • Industrialising ML through platform, MLOps, and integration patterns 
    • Embedding governance and Responsible AI into delivery

    Role Overview

    • The primary expectation of this role is to design, build, deploy, and operate machine learning systems that are scalable, reliable, and integrated into business and digital processes.

    This role focuses on:

    • Building ML pipelines and platform components 
    • Enabling model deployment and integration 
    • Ensuring training-to-inference consistency 
    • Embedding monitoring, governance, and continuous learning 

    Operating within a high-autonomy environment, you will:

    • Own and deliver end-to-end ML engineering solutions 
    • Collaborate across Data, Engineering, and Architecture teams 
    • Contribute to making the Insights Engine the default ML delivery platform across the bankDesign, build, test, and enhance scalable ML pipelines and systems aligned to business objectives 
    • Develop and maintain Feature Store capabilities, enabling feature reuse and consistency 
    • Implement CI/CD pipelines for machine learning models 
    • Manage model deployment patterns (batch and real-time) using cloud infrastructure 
    • Ensure training-to-inference consistency and reproducibility of models 
    • Implement model monitoring, drift detection, and alerting mechanisms 
    • Build and support automated retraining pipelines and continuous learning frameworks 
    • Enable seamless integration of ML outputs into digital applications and business processes 
    • Collaborate with Data Scientists to operationalise models into production 
    • Work with Engineering teams to ensure scalable and reliable integration into digital channels 
    • Contribute to ML governance frameworks, including Responsible AI practices (fairness, explainability, bias detection) 
    • Support the design and evolution of the Insights Engine architecture and operating model 
    • Drive automation and standardisation across the ML lifecycle 
    • Evaluate and adopt new tools and technologies to improve platform capability 
    • Proactively manage delivery timelines and technical execution 
    • Engage stakeholders to ensure alignment with business priorities and strategy 
    • Contribute to knowledge sharing and capability uplift across the organisation

    Minimum Qualifications and Knowledge

    • A degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related field 
    • 5+ years of experience in Machine Learning Engineering / MLOps 
    • Relevant cloud certifications (e.g. AWS, Azure) in cloud environments i.e AZ900, AI300,AI901
    • Experience building, deploying, and operating machine learning models in production 
    • Strong proficiency in Python, SQL, and PySpark 
    • Experience with cloud platforms (preferably Azure ML, Databricks, Azure DevOps) 
    • Experience with CI/CD pipelines and automation frameworks 

    Understanding of: 

    • Feature Store concepts 
    • Model lifecycle management 
    • Data engineering and distributed systems

    Competencies

    • Strong systems thinking — ability to design scalable platform solutions 
    • Ability to translate business problems into technical ML solutions 
    • Strong collaboration across cross-functional teams (Data, Engineering, Architecture) 
    • Excellent communication skills (technical and non-technical) 
    • High ownership and accountability for delivery 
    • Ability to work in a fast-paced, evolving environment 
    • Strong problem-solving and analytical thinking skills 
    • Focus on building reusable and scalable solutions 
    • Understanding of governance, compliance, and Responsible AI principles 
    • Attention to detail and quality of delivery 
    • Self-starter with the ability to operate independently 
    • Continuous learning mindset

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    Delivery Manager - Business and Commercial Banking

    Description

    • Investec is looking for a Delivery Manager to plan, manage and lead the delivery of multiple Credit and Data initiatives from initiation to completion, working with the PMO lead.
    • The Delivery Manager will be responsible for regular progress and status reporting on all assigned change delivery activities, as well as proactively identifying, reporting and managing all risks, issues and changes that may impact on the initiatives outcomes.

    Key Responsibilities

    • 5 - 8 years experience managing projects, including cross-functional delivery teams.
    • Experience with SDLC and Project Lifecycle Management 
    • Knowledge and experience with structure, agile and/or lean project management methodologies
    • Project management certification and experience essential (PMI or alternate qualification)
    • Demonstrate strong verbal and written communication skills, with an ability to effectively communicate an adoption strategy that you aid in defining and identifying dependencies within.
    • Strong organizational skills, the ability to perform under pressure and management of multiple priorities with competing demands for resources.
    • Manage stakeholder relationships across business, technical teams, multiple business units and jurisdictions
    • Ability to manage external vendor delivery and dependencies.
    • Strong leadership skills to aid teams to navigate a complex environment and find optimal solutions to achieve business outcomes

    Qualifications, Experience and Skills

    • Tertiary qualification in Project management, Business, IT, Computer Science or related field.
    • Agile certification
    • Banking and Financial Services experience advantageous and specifically in Credit Risk and Operations
    • PMI / Prince2 Project management certification.

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    Data Engineer (Data Integration Enablement)

    Description

    • The Data Engineer is responsible for the design, development, optimization, and support of enterprise data platforms and data integration solutions within the Risk Data and Regulatory Reporting landscape. The role focuses on enabling scalable, secure, and reliable data pipelines that support Risk, Finance, Compliance, and Regulatory reporting requirements across the organization. The role will work across complex upstream and downstream ecosystems, integrating data from source platforms into cloud-based analytical and operational data environments. This includes supporting strategic initiatives such as Global Core Banking Modernization, Project Phoenix, cloud migration, and advanced data capability development including MLOps and AI/LLM enablement. The successful candidate will collaborate closely with business analysts, architects, risk stakeholders, and engineering teams to ensure high-quality, governed, and resilient data solutions aligned to BCBS293 / RDARR principles and enterprise technology standards.

    Key Responsibilities

    • Design, build, and maintain scalable data integration and transformation pipelines using Azure-based technologies. 
    • Develop and optimize data ingestion, orchestration, and transformation processes across enterprise platforms. 
    • Support migration and modernization of data platforms from on-premises to cloud-native architectures. 
    • Implement and maintain data quality, reconciliation, validation, and monitoring controls. 
    • Develop and support data solutions leveraging technologies such as Azure Data Factory, Azure Databricks, Azure Synapse, Microsoft Fabric, and Dynamics 365 integrations. 
    • Collaborate with stakeholders to translate business and regulatory requirements into technical data solutions. 
    • Ensure adherence to enterprise governance, security, and operational standards. 
    • Troubleshoot and resolve data-related incidents, performance bottlenecks, and integration issues. 
    • Contribute to CI/CD, automation, Infrastructure-as-Code, and DevOps practices within the data engineering environment. 
    • Support development of advanced analytical capabilities including MLOps and AI/LLM-enabled data services. 
    • Mentor junior engineers and contribute to engineering best practices and continuous improvement initiatives. 
    • Maintain technical documentation, lineage artefacts, and operational support documentation. 

    Qualifications, Experience and Skills

    • Bachelor's degree in computer science, Information Systems, Engineering, Data Science, or a related technical discipline. 
    • Relevant Microsoft Azure certifications will be advantageous. 
    • Minimum 5–8 years' experience in data engineering, data integration, or enterprise data platform development. 
    • Proven experience delivering enterprise-scale cloud data solutions within Microsoft Azure environments. 
    • Strong experience with: Azure Data Factory (ADF), Azure Databricks, Azure Synapse Analytics, Microsoft Fabric, Dynamics 365 integrations. Azure SQL and related Azure data services 
    • Experience designing and supporting ETL/ELT pipelines and large-scale data processing solutions. 
    • Experience working with structured and semi-structured data in complex enterprise environments. 
    • Strong SQL and data modelling skills. 
    • Experience with Python, Spark, or other modern data engineering technologies. 
    • Exposure to CI/CD pipelines, DevOps practices, and Infrastructure-as-Code approaches. 
    • Experience within Risk, Finance, Banking, or Regulatory Reporting environments will be advantageous. 
    • Understanding BCBS293 / RDARR principles and data governance concepts will be beneficial. 
    • Experience supporting cloud migration and platform modernization initiatives. 
    • Exposure to MLOps, AI/LLM integration, or advanced analytics platforms would be advantageous.

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    Client Operations Consultant

    Description

    • Client Operations is responsible for ensuring that all clients are effectively on boarded, maintained and closed on the relevant system. This includes product/transactional systems. This process is driven by a client's instruction for a new product or service. The consultant will be required to meet daily tasks within the required timelines, ensure compliance with regulatory requirements, manage risk and deliver an exceptional client experience
    • To provide an exceptional service related to the execution of managing and maintaining the account opening life cycle for new and existing clients
    • The consultant is responsible for maintaining entity records from a static data perspective as well as integration and structure maintenance. The function entails capturing client data recorded in acquisition documentation, which include application forms, KYC & FATCA documents and other regulatory documentation; capturing client information including client's identity and residential address; and updating client information on Investec systems

    Key Responsibilities  

    • Client on boarding KPI and SLA are met and the highest standard is adhered to, ensuing the client is always at the centre
    • Legal and compliance regulations are fulfilled
    • Work goals and deadlines are met with speed of execution top of mind

    Qualifications, Experience and Skills

    • Understanding of FICA directives, legislative requirements and regulatory expectations
    • Knowledge and understanding of AML risk
    • Knowledge and understanding of KYC compliance regulations, related laws and standards impacting FICA compliance
    • Knowledge of lending and transactional clients, including how FICA applies across different sectors and the implementation of financial products
    • Understanding of customer and transaction data analysis, and data capture requirements for quality, completeness and accuracy
    • Experience of client lifecycle processes is an advantage
    • Ability to assist with SME input for FICA-related projects across business, compliance, operations and technology
    • Ability to communicate FICA obligations effectively to clients and stakeholders
    • Ability to manage change effectively
    • Ability to manage performance effectively
    • Ability to work under scrutiny and autonomously
    • Ability to work under pressure and manage conflict
    • Ability to deal with business issues efficiently and effectively
    • Ability to manage and work effectively with Sales Consultants, Financial Crime Compliance, Legal, Operations (KYC and Product), and Technology divisions
    • High level of accuracy and attention to detail across all relevant work types
    • Good administrative skills
    • Self-starter
    • A working knowledge of FICA, AML and financial services regulatory experience is favourable

    Personal Attributes 

    • Very high regard for confidentiality and integrity in relation to client data
    • Highly organised with the ability to prioritise and multitask
    • Able to think analytically by assessing risk and interpreting data
    • Ability to work flexibly around deadlines when workload demands
    • Excellent communication skills
    • High attention to detail
    • Able to solve problems independently
    • Able to collaborate effectively with colleagues and stakeholders
    • Ability to recognise when queries should be escalated
    • Strong sense of urgency
    • Ability to provide excellent client service
    • Strong customer service orientation, with an understanding of the business and its associated needs
    • Proactive and task-oriented
    • Demonstrates accountability by taking ownership of deliverables
    • Energetic, adaptable and self-motivated
    • Team player who values and understands the contribution of others and the wider business
    • Possesses a learning mindset and keeps up to date with system and/or regulatory changes within the organisation

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    Business Analyst & Squad Lead - Business and Commercial Banking

    Description

    • Investec Business and Commercial Banking is looking for an experienced and collaborative Business Analyst who can also fulfil some aspects of the role of Squad lead for one or more cross-functional delivery teams. The individual will bridge business analysis and agile delivery, translating business needs into actionable user stories, facilitating agile ceremonies, and supporting high-quality, value-driven outcomes.

    Key Responsibilities

    Requirements analysis and elicitation

    • Gather, document, and analyse business needs, processes, and requirements from stakeholders.
    • Translate requirements into clear, well-defined user stories with acceptance criteria and success metrics.
    • Maintain traceability between requirements, tests, and delivery outcomes.

    Backlog management and prioritisation

    • Partner with the Product Owner to refine and prioritise the product backlog based on value, risk, and dependencies.
    • Ensure backlog items are well groomed, estimable, and actionable for the delivery team.

    Stakeholder engagement and communication

    • Build and sustain relationships with business stakeholders, product owners, and delivery teams.
    • Provide transparent status updates, progress reports, and risk/issue escalation when required.
    • Translate complex technical concepts into clear business language for stakeholders.

    Quality assurance and acceptance

    • Define and validate acceptance criteria; support testing activities and UAT as required.
    • Ensure Deliverables meet Definition of Ready and Definition of Done.

    Risk management

    • Identify, document, and monitor risks and issues; collaborate with relevant parties to mitigate them.

    Qualifications, Experience and Skills

    • 2–5 years of experience as an Analyst (business, systems, or similar) or equivalent combination of analysis and delivery experience.
    • Demonstrated experience in an Agile facilitation role (or strong exposure to Scrum).
    • Solid understanding of the software development lifecycle and agile methodologies (Scrum, Kanban, or hybrid approaches).
    • Certifications preferred: Certified Scrum Master (CSM), Professional Scrum Master (PSM I), or equivalent.
    • Proficiency with backlog management and collaboration tools (e.g., Jira, Confluence; Azure DevOps is a plus).
    • Strong ability to write clear user stories, acceptance criteria, and testable requirements.
    • Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills; capable of facilitating workshops and steering group discussions.
    • Analytical thinker with problem-solving skills; able to balance business value with technical feasibility.
    • Ability to work effectively in cross-functional teams; collaborative mindset with a servant-leadership style.
    • Proactive, organised, and capable of managing multiple priorities in a fast-paced environment.
    • Desirable: experience with data analysis (SQL or BI tools), QA/testing processes, and basic technical literacy.

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