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Senior Business Analyst (Software Development) (Contract Position)

Job Ref
269823
Job Type
Contracting
Employer Type
Recruitment Agency
Date Added 23 Sep 2016
Expiry Date 30 Sep 2016
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Employer:
BRO Resourcing (Pty) Ltd

Location:
Western Cape

Salary:
Market related

Benefits:


Role details:
Senior Business Analyst (Software Development) (Contract Position)
Responsibilities
The Senior Business Analyst is responsible for assessing, describing and analysing the business needs of clients and stakeholders to help identify business problems and propose solutions, using mainly the discipline of business analysis. This involves the application of a substantial body of knowledge in custom software development, organizational design, business process modelling, technology assimilation, organizational change, and business process modelling. The position involves dealing with a wide range of solution architecture issues requiring judgment in assessing a variety of complex technical variables. The incumbent will also be involved in providing business improvement solutions that requires conceptual level of business and technical challenges that need to be taken into account with the effective use of the applications provisioning and corporate desktop productivity platforms and tools. The incumbent will be the primary interface to business for the Custom Development team for the analysis and documentation of business requirements and processes for enhancements or new functionality or subsequent development by a team of software developers.
Brief overview of job functions
PROFESSIONAL FUNCTIONS
Conduct IT Business Analysis using techniques for requirements gathering, functional decomposition, functional user interface design, entity relationship modelling, process improvement, technology assimilation, change management, and process modelling to identify opportunities for prompt business processes and enable office productivity automation through:
Applying techniques to gather and document business requirements namely:- Unified Modelling Language (UML), process flows, use cases, interview skills, workshop facilitation, and deliver the following:- Business Requirements into a Functional Specification containing Functional, Informational and non-functional requirements.
Analysing business processes and investigations to perform modelling/mapping of business processes, conducting as-is/to-be business process (re-)designs for substantial business problems, and come up with alternative business solutions.
Analysing and evaluating business data and other information collected, focusing on identifying what data is pertinent and what data structures, tables and entities are required in the new systems.
Documenting and disseminating results of research and investigations to application development teams and providing guidance in terms of solutions design and development, and sharing knowledge with fellow professionals engaged on common areas of work within the Department.
Facilitating the development of projects, systems, policies and procedures and their implementation, working with other IT professionals.
Participating in the systems design phase of systems identified for development to ensure consistency of designs and business objectives, through prototype efforts, including determining the technical feasibility of automated solutions on different platforms
Researching, prototyping and assessing the feasibility and impact of releasing certain functionality in the desktop environment out to the business.
Defining testing conditions for the integrated testing of developed systems, and participating in systems testing and sign off of developed application systems before roll-out to the user departments. Compile test plans and test packs and assist in testing newly developed or enhanced software and new releases of developed software.
Participating in the training of end-users in application systems developed and the implementation of change management programmes.
Assisting in the monitoring and managing of external service providers in the delivery of goods and services participating in application systems development.
Defining a rich specification of business services with reusability in mind, through crafting, modelling, verifying, documenting, defining the web-service deployment plans and making these available to all stakeholders.

ADMINISTRATION
Drawing up of reports and correspondence to facilitate the functioning of the Branch, by:
Writing of reports of varying length and complexity to record research and information collection, share information, formulate conclusions and strategies and make reasoned recommendations.
Responding to requests for assistance or resolution of problems to both internal and external clients.
Compiling, analysing and evaluating statistical data and making written recommendations to line management.
Safe keeping of documentation, results of research and investigations, and correspondence.
In order to affect accurate recording of professional work done in the Branch and ensure effective use of the Branch’s services and resources.
Key Accountabilities
Requirements elicitation and management
Business process analysis and re-engineering
Compilation of functional specifications
Conducting workshops and other information gathering sessions
Compiling of test packs and test plans
Knowledge and Skills
Expert knowledge of information technology systems functioning
Strong business process analysis skills, with hands-on experience in delivering business process solutions.
Knowledge of relevant technology, tools, and middleware that enable business process enablement and business user productivity
Knowledge and experience in developing strategic information systems plans
Leadership and mentorship skills
Verbal and written communication skills, with an ability to express complex technical concepts in business terms
Analytical, problem-solving, and conceptual skills
Ability to work in a team and interpersonal skills
Ability to communicate and persuade at all management levels and thrive in a cross-functional environment
Management skills
Qualifications or Experience
5-6 years IT experience, 3-4 of which should be experience in IT Business Analysis in a Custom Development environment.
Experience with Reporting Services would be advantageous.
Experience in Entity Relationship Modelling.
Experience with prototyping tools such as Expression Blend will also be advantageous.




 
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