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Job Description

IQbusiness, your go-to, is seeking to employ a talented Business Intelligence Business Analyst (BIBA) in Cape Town.

The BIBA needs to gather, analyse and understand product / data owner’s’ data and analytics requirements and translate these requirements into best practice technical solutions that meet the relevant business objectives. The role will also ensure alignment between Product Owners, data chapter and data squad teams and produce a comprehensive functional specification from business requirements by maintaining a high level of in-depth knowledge with regards to analytics and other relevant data concepts.

Your Key Responsibilities

• Identify, clarify and agree data and analytics requirements.
• Liaises with PO’s to understand and document their data and analytics requirements; performing analytical processes and measures related to the processes.
• Adopts multiple actions with stakeholders to elicit the requirements; uses interviews, document analysis, requirements workshops, surveys, business process descriptions, user cases, scenarios and business analysis.
• Provides functional knowledge and expert input during planning, design and implementation phases of projects and initiatives between Data Chapter, Data Squad and business.
• Assists stakeholders (e.g. Product Managers) with data-related scoping and planning.
• Applies end-to-end best practice to deliver data and analytics requirements.
• Ensures appropriate testing is done and provides the business with assistance during user acceptance testing.
• Provides business with functional and technical assistance during data and analytics implementations.
• Applies business and data and analytics functional knowledge at all times to identify possible improvement opportunities and motivate with business.
• Owns personal continued professional development to remain current with data and analytics industry trends, particularly around data and analytics tools and technologies.
• Analyses, understands and document relevant data and analytics technical requirements; performs data modelling and maps the analytic solution to the relevant data sources.
• Works closely with the Data Architect(s) and Data Modeller(s) to design, refine and implement analytic solutions in order to execute the functional design of the relevant data and analytics solution; including reports and dashboards.
• Provides input to data governance and data and analytics quality assurance; identifies and communicates all risks.
• Performs functional testing and data validation of reports and other data and analytics deliverables before presenting to business users.
• Applies data and analytics functional knowledge at all times to identify and motivate possible data and analytics support/improvements.
• Facilitate the Data Product Life Cycle and application of best practice/process.
• Acts as the custodian of reporting catalogue; maintains the information framework and reports.
• Facilitates the process between all teams regarding data governance and processes.

Requirements

• At least 5 years+ proven experience in drafting functional specifications
• At least 5 years+ proven BI Business Analysis, data design and systems analysis experience in a data and analytics environment
• At least 5 years+ Stakeholder engagement for the purpose of identifying and specifying business requirements experience.
• At least 5 years Liaising between business and functional stakeholders; translating requirements experience
• 3+ Years Business Information Business Analysis experience in and finance/banking environment
• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or similar fields like Information Systems, Big Data, etc would be advantageous.
• AWS Certification would be advantageous
• Related Technical certifications
• Knowledge of Agile methodologies and project management practices, including Scrum, Kanban, and Lean
• Excellent communication, collaboration, and problem-solving
• Ability to work independently and in a team environment in an Agile framework
• Strong analytical and critical thinking skills

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Job Description

IQbusiness is a leading management consulting firm.

Our Innovative Analysis Team is looking for seasoned Business Analysts that have experience and exposure to projects within the Banking/Financial Services industry. We are specifically looking for people that have worked on projects including:
 

API and Systems Integration, Digital (Mobile) projects; AML/ Fraud/ Compliance related projects or Payments projects.

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

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Job Description

IQbusiness is the largest South African management and technology consulting firm, attracting top talent and ambitious clients, both locally and globally.

IQbusiness is looking for Java full stack developers responsible for building Java-based solutions, including anything from back-end services to their client-end counterparts. Your primary responsibilities will be to design and develop these applications, and to coordinate with the rest of the team working on different layers of the solution’s architecture. Therefore, a commitment to collaborative problem solving, sophisticated design, and a quality product are essential.

Key Responsibilities and/or Outputs

• Ability to adhere to coding Standards
• Knowledge of industry coding standards/guidelines
• Understanding basic coding concepts like Code blocks, flow, IO, FileSystem, Serialization, Configuration, Self-commenting code, Data access
• Understanding coding concepts and constructs like lambdas, Idiomatic patterns and RegEx
• Understanding of OOP
• Understanding the difference between solution architecture and design
• Design principles and architectural and design patterns
• Concepts such as IoC
• SDLC – Agile, Waterfall, ETC
• Knowledge of security concepts, tools and techniques
• Ability to define quality in the context of software development

Requirements

• 4-7 years working experience
• Bachelor degree in related field (Advantageous)
• Relevant software development certifications

Tech Stack

• HTML / CSS / JS / Angular 2 or later / ReactJS
• Java including: Java SE / Java EE / Hibernate/ JPA / Spring
• JVM Languages: Kotlin / Groovy
• Build & Dependency Tools: Maven / Gradle
• Testing: JUnit / Selenium / Mockito / Cucumber
• Microservices: Spring Boot / Vert.X / Micronaut / Netflix OSS libraries
• Containerisation: Docker / Kubernetes / OpenShift
• Web Services and Networking: RESTful APIs / SOAP / HTTPS / GRPC / Protobuf
• Mobile: Android / IOS / Ionic / React Native / Cordova
• Cloud: Amazon Web Services / Azure / Google Cloud
• DevOps: Jenkins /  Bamboo / Gitlab CIBuild & Dependency Tools: Maven / Gradle
• Testing: JUnit / Selenium / Mockito / Cucumber
• Microservices: Spring Boot / Vert.X / Micronaut / Netflix OSS libraries
• Containerisation: Docker / Kubernetes / OpenShift

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Job Description

IQbusiness is a leading management consulting firm. Our purpose is to grow people, grow business and grow Africa.

About you and the skills we are looking for:
You are available immediately and are a strong and well skilled Project Manager who is experienced across various banking/financial services environments.
You understand People, Process and Technology and you have the ability to make informed decisions and lead projects from idea inception all the way through to activation and launch.  

You are open to a contracting opportunity.

Experience and Skills:

• 6 years’ solid Project Management experience on financial services projects
• 3 or more years’ experience managing multiple teams across multiple projects advantageous
• Advanced budget management and stakeholder management skills
• Effective communication skills
• Exposure to Agile and alternative delivery methodologies
• Exposure to Business and Process Analysis
• Hybrid way of work (Client, IQbusiness, Home)

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

Program Initiation:

• Identify stakeholders
• Consult broadly with clients (executives and delivery teams) and other stakeholders
• Analyse business value
• Identify delivery cadences
• Program planning
• Identify and plan teams (project and shared resource teams) and teams’ capacity
• Plan procurement
• Estimate costs and determine budget
• Identify functional and non-function dependencies
• Identify program risks
• Perform qualitative and qualitative risk analysis
• Identify program metrics
• Develop program guidance

Program Management and Execution:

• Organisation and coordination of teams across the program
• Build relationships across project teams and shared resource teams
• Build relationships with key stakeholders
• Communicate program guidance and establish support team
• Prioritisation and coordination of work
• Balance priorities
• Attend to administration and reporting relating to procurement
• Schedule and manage releases
• Negotiate and manage dependencies
• Manage program finances
• Monitor and control risks
• Coordinate and monitor schedules
• Monitor and manage teams’ health and performance
• Monitor and measure projects’ performance
• Report on projects’ performance and overall program metrics

Program Close-out:

• Close program or phase
• Ensure that all relevant documentation and reports have been disseminated
• Close procurement arrangements
• Off-board program team members and complete close-out

Education:

• Matric
• Qualification in Project / Program Management
• Degree or Diploma in Business Management, Computer Science, Business Science or Engineering would be advantageous
• Certified PRINCE2 Practitioner, Certified PMP, Certified Scrum Master, Certified in SAFe, Certified SAFe Release Train Engineer