Latest Job Opportunities at IQ Business

Requirements:

• 7-10 years of experience in Data Management Framework development and implementation thereof
• Relevant Bachelors’ Degree / Diploma / recognised qualification from an accredited tertiary institution preferably ICT  
• Proven experience working as a Data Governance Analyst or in a similar role.
• Strong understanding of data governance principles, data management practices, and data quality concepts.
• Familiarity with data governance frameworks such as DAMA-DMBOK or equivalent.
• Proficiency in data profiling, data lineage, and metadata management tools.
• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills with meticulous attention to detail.
• Strong communication and collaboration skills to effectively work with cross-functional teams and stakeholders.
• Knowledge of data security and privacy regulations and their implications for data governance.
• Ability to communicate well with different types of stakeholders, adapt to different project environments and play a flexible role in projects
• Experience with data governance toolsets and technologies is preferred.
• Ability to adapt to a fast-paced environment and manage multiple priorities effectively.

Responsibilities:

• Develop and implement data governance frameworks, policies, and procedures to ensure effective management of data assets.
• Establish data quality standards and guidelines and monitor adherence to ensure data integrity.
• Conduct regular data audits to identify data quality issues, anomalies, and discrepancies.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define data governance best practices and provide guidance on data management processes.
• Design and implement data governance tools and technologies to streamline data management and improve data quality.
• Develop data classification and categorization schemes to ensure appropriate handling of sensitive and confidential data.
• Collaborate with IT teams to ensure data security and compliance with relevant regulations.
• Identify areas for improvement in data management practices and recommend solutions to enhance data governance.
• Provide training and support to staff members on data governance policies, procedures, and best practices.
• Stay up-to-date with industry trends and developments in data governance and recommend innovative approaches for data management.

go to method of application »

Key Responsibilities and Output Areas:

• Lean Six Sigma Excellence: Showcase your proficiency as a Process Specialist with a focus on Lean Six Sigma principles to drive continuous improvement.
• Financial Services Specialisation: Leverage your 5+ years of experience as a Process Analyst, specifically within the Banking/ Financial Services sector.
• Methodological Versatility: Demonstrate expertise in various lean methodologies and principles
• Agile Process Integration: Seamlessly transfer requirements into agile user stories, ensuring smooth integration into the Agile space.
• Stakeholder Collaboration: Engage effectively with stakeholders, leading information-gathering sessions to understand and streamline processes.
• Comprehensive Requirement Documentation: Gather, interpret, and document process requirements comprehensively.
• Solution Design Involvement: Actively participate in the solution design process, providing valuable insights from a Lean perspective.
• Data Governance and Integrity: Play a crucial role in ensuring data integrity, quality, and governance within the processes.
• Testing Support: Define success criteria, document test cases, and provide support across test environments to ensure smooth process implementation.
• Business Process Analysis: Analyse, deconstruct, and map existing and new business processes, identifying areas for improvement using Lean methodologies.
• Implementation and Training Support: Provide assistance during the implementation phase, ensuring smooth transition and providing necessary training.

Education Qualification:

• Matric
• University Qualification, Certificate or Diploma, aligned to relevant experience - Relevant Bachelors’ Degree / Diploma / recognised qualification from an accredited tertiary institution.
• Lean Six Sigma Certification

Skills:

• Expertise in Lean Six Sigma (Green and Black belt)
• Comprehensive experience in process analysis methodologies
• Familiarity with multiple project methodologies (Agile, Waterfall, RUP)
• Agile integration of process requirements
• Strong stakeholder engagement and collaboration skills
• Proficiency in data governance and integrity
• Familiarity with tools such as Confluence and Jira would be advantageous

go to method of application »

Education:

• Matric
• Qualification in Project delivery frameworks and methodologies: PRINCE2, PMBOK, Agile
• Degree or Diploma in Business Management, Computer Science, Business Science or Engineering would be advantageous

Experience and Skills:

• 5 to 10 years’ working in delivering IT related projects, preferably managing IT, Process, Business, Organisational change or HR-related projects
• 3 or more years’ experience managing multiple teams across multiple projects
• Experience in Software Engineering or delivering on Software Solutions to customers
• Exposure to Agile, alternative delivery methodologies, scaling frameworks, and PMO structures and functions
• Exposure to Business and Process Analysis, Change management, system integration
• MS Office
• Product ownership experience will be advantageous
• Experience/Exposure to Customer Experience Management or User Experience Management

Key Responsibilities and/or output areas include, but are not limited to:

Project Initiation:

• Identify key stakeholders
• Consult broadly with clients (executives and delivery teams) and other stakeholders
• Identify and understand project needs and business value
• Identify and provide input in the form of a technology design, user/customer experience and guidance from business value perspective
• Develop a Project Charter
• Analyse and develop business cases

Project Planning:

• Facilitate the collection, documentation and analysis of requirements
• Document understanding of scope, complexity and dependencies
• Create WBS or product backlog
• Develop Project Management Plan or relevant management and delivery approach
• Define and sequence activities, or user stories
• Estimate activity resources and duration
• Develop schedules, flight plans and activity trackers
• Estimate and track costs and determine budget
• Identify and manage risks, issues and impediments
• Manage quality
• Plan and map out all communications
• Plan for procurement, resourcing, infrastructure and change management requirements

Project Execution Management:

• Design and Implement delivery approach
• Direct and manage general project execution
• Coordinate and oversee Change Management tasks
• Adopt and ensure correct Software engineering principles are adhered to
• Perform QA activities
• Acquire, develop and manage project team
• Distribute information
• Manage the delivery team
• Manage stakeholder expectations
• Conduct procurement as and when required

Project Monitoring and Control:

• Monitor and control project work
• Perform integrated change control
• Verify and control project scope
• Control project schedules
• Control costs
• Perform Quality Control
• Report on team and project performance
• Monitor and control risks
• Attend to all administration and reporting relating to procurement

Project Close-out:

• Close Project or phase
• Ensure that all relevant documentation and reports have been disseminated
• Close procurements
• Off-board project team members and complete close-out

go to method of application »

Minimum Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science / Engineering
• At least 3 years of experience shipping high-quality software solutions and services
• Experience in performance/stress testing is good to have
• Experience in Agile is a must
• Known quality assurance/engineering certifications 
• Excellent knowledge using JMeter
• Excellent in verbal and written communication

Job Specification

Responsibilities

• Own and drive test processes and partner with other disciplines to deliver high quality solutions
• Partners with development to build and maintain comprehensive QA Test environments
• Create and maintain QA schedules
• Serve as a technical and methodological subject matter expert in all areas regarding quality analysis, testable design and deployment
• Define, generate and refine quality-related metrics
• Demonstrated success with quality assurance concepts, test plan/test case definition and problem analysis
• Strong automated testing experience with enterprise and cloud scale products on various software, hardware and networking infrastructures.
• Experience designing, setting up and maintaining automated test frameworks, tools and scripts for CI/CD environments
• Familiar with Source control and build tools with GIT, Jenkins, Jira.
• Comfortable working in a fast-paced Agile development environment.
• Solid understanding of SDLC phases including requirements analysis, design, coding, testing, release and maintenance.
• Testing experience with cloud, database or big data analysis preferred.

Personal Qualifications

• Strong customer focus and passion for doing what’s right for the customer
• Excellent organizational, interpersonal, and oral/written communication skills
• Great organizational skills and an eye for details
• Good understanding of software quality assurance processes is required
• Strong influencer for the test and quality during overall product development cycle
• Has experience and conviction around measures to quantify software quality

go to method of application »

Key Responsibilities and/or output areas include, but are not limited to:

• Must have 7+ years of experience as an all-round BA (data, process, systems and business analysis)
• Must have worked on payments related projects within banking or financial services
• Must have an understanding of the National Payments System (NPS)
• Must have worked within CIB (Corporate and Investment Banking)
• Experience in various project methods and principles (Agile, Waterfall, RUP)
• Ability to transfer requirement documentation into user stories and integrate it into the Agile space.
• Engagement across stakeholders and ability to run information-gathering sessions.
• Gather, interpret, and document requirements (business, functional and technical)
• Participate in the solution design process.
• Participate in (ensuring/enabling) data integrity, quality, and governance.
• Define the success criteria, document test cases, and provide support across the test environments.
• Analyse, deconstruct and map existing and new business processes.
• Align data sources, flows, storage, and reporting.
• Assistance on solution delivery on implementation and training.

Education Qualification:

• Matric
• University Qualification, Certificate or Diploma, aligned to relevant experience - Relevant Bachelors’ Degree / Diploma / recognised qualification from an accredited tertiary institution.

Skills:

• Formal or practical experience in the BABOK
• Multiple process notations
• Business Writing Skills
• Presentation and Facilitation Skills
• Data Modelling based on Entity Diagram Mapping
• Repository-Based Modelling tools i.e., ARIS
• Business Change Life Cycle
• System Development Life Cycle (Waterfall, Agile, RUP)
• Quality and Risk Management
• ACORD Framework, SOA, TOGAF, ARCHIMATE
• Experience with tools such as Confluence and Jira would be advantageous

go to method of application »

Key Responsibilities and/or output areas include, but are not limited to:

• Must have 5 + years of experience as an all-round BA (data, process, systems and business analysis)
• Must have financial services experience as a Business Analyst specifically in Banking.
• Experience in various project methods and principles (Agile, Waterfall, RUP)
• Ability to transfer requirement documentation into user stories and integrate it into the Agile space.
• Engagement across stakeholders and ability to run information-gathering sessions.
• Gather, interpret, and document requirements (business, functional and technical)
• Participate in the solution design process.
• Participate in (ensuring/enabling) data integrity, quality, and governance.
• Define the success criteria, document test cases, and provide support across the test environments.
• Analyse, deconstruct and map existing and new business processes.
• Align data sources, flows, storage, and reporting.
• Assistance on solution delivery on implementation and training.

Education Qualification:

• Matric
• University Qualification, Certificate or Diploma, aligned to relevant experience - Relevant Bachelors’ Degree / Diploma / recognised qualification from an accredited tertiary institution.

Skills:

• Formal or practical experience in the BABOK
• Multiple process notations
• Business Writing Skills
• Presentation and Facilitation Skills
• Data Modelling based on Entity Diagram Mapping
• Repository-Based Modelling tools i.e., ARIS
• Business Change Life Cycle
• System Development Life Cycle (Waterfall, Agile, RUP)
• Quality and Risk Management
• ACORD Framework, SOA, TOGAF, ARCHIMATE
• Experience with tools such as Confluence and Jira would be advantageous

go to method of application »

Key Responsibilities and/or output areas include, but are not limited to:

• Must have 5 + years of experience as an all-round BA (data, process, systems and business analysis)
• Must have financial services experience as a Business Analyst specifically in Banking.
• Experience in various project methods and principles (Agile, Waterfall, RUP)
• Ability to transfer requirement documentation into user stories and integrate it into the Agile space.
• Engagement across stakeholders and ability to run information-gathering sessions.
• Gather, interpret, and document requirements (business, functional and technical)
• Participate in the solution design process.
• Participate in (ensuring/enabling) data integrity, quality, and governance.
• Define the success criteria, document test cases, and provide support across the test environments.
• Analyse, deconstruct and map existing and new business processes.
• Align data sources, flows, storage, and reporting.
• Assistance on solution delivery on implementation and training.

Education Qualification:

• Matric
• University Qualification, Certificate or Diploma, aligned to relevant experience - Relevant Bachelors’ Degree / Diploma / recognised qualification from an accredited tertiary institution.

Skills:

• Formal or practical experience in the BABOK
• Multiple process notations
• Business Writing Skills
• Presentation and Facilitation Skills
• Data Modelling based on Entity Diagram Mapping
• Repository-Based Modelling tools i.e., ARIS
• Business Change Life Cycle
• System Development Life Cycle (Waterfall, Agile, RUP)
• Quality and Risk Management
• ACORD Framework, SOA, TOGAF, ARCHIMATE
• Experience with tools such as Confluence and Jira would be advantageous

go to method of application »

About you:

• You should be qualified to handle IT and business projects and have at least 5 years of project management experience.
• You should hold a degree in project management, business administration, computer science, business science, or engineering.
• Project management approaches like PMBOK, PRINCE2, Agile, Scrum, SAFe, and Kanban should be well understood by you.
• You will oversee managing projects from the beginning to the end, which calls for exceptional leadership, communication, and problem-solving abilities.

Key responsibilities:

• You will be responsible for managing and supervising all phases of a project, including its inception, planning, execution, monitoring, and conclusion. This includes creating and overseeing project schedules, budgets, and resource allocations.
• To achieve successful project delivery, you must track project progress and recognise and handle project risks and concerns.
• You will ensure that projects are delivered in compliance with client methodology expectations as well as industry best practices.
• You'll be leading project meetings and making sure all project paperwork is accurate and up-to-date. Also, you must make sure that project deliverables are on schedule, under budget, and up to quality standards.

go to method of application »

About you and the key skills we’re looking for.

• Are you a talented CX designer ready to make a significant impact?
• In this role, you’ll collaborate with various stakeholders to drive customer-centric strategies and transformations.
• We’re looking for someone with over 5 years of experience as a CX Designer. Experience in the financial services sector is a bonus.
• Join us in a fast-paced, innovative environment where you’ll help drive forward-thinking customer solutions and augment our capacity. This role is all about putting the customer first and ensuring every interaction they have with our products is seamless and enjoyable. If you’re passionate about creating exceptional customer experiences, this could be the perfect fit for you!

Key Responsibilities include:

• Conduct User Research
• Develop Customer Journey Maps:
• Design User Interfaces and Interactions.
• Collaborate with Cross-Functional Teams.
• Analyse Customer Data.
• Create and Test Prototypes.
• Ensure Consistency in Design.
• Monitor and Evaluate the customer experience.
• Advocate for Customer-Centric Design