Cape Town: Feature Analyst posted by iOCO Digital Pty Lty

About the Role

We are seeking a Senior Business Analyst to join our team in Cape Town. As a mastermind at analysing data, identifying trends, and creating solutions, you will play a crucial role in helping us fight the forces of business chaos together.

Key Responsibilities

• Consult to various clients, and their stakeholders, to understand their value chain, structure, functions, and products and/or services.
• Building and maintaining strong relationships with clients and acting as a consultant on the projects or applications.
• Challenge the business in their thinking, especially to understand the intent of the business requirement.
• With little supervision, elicit, gather, analyse, document, validate and communicate business requirements (User Stories and Acceptance Criteria).
• Write clear and concise user stories, epics, and features aligned with the INVEST principles to support effective agile development.
• Collaborate with the business to build and maintain a well-prioritized backlog, ensuring delivery teams have a continuous flow of valuable work.
• Conduct in-depth product analysis by developing strong knowledge of the existing product and identifying opportunities for improvement and innovation.
• Operate as a Feature Analyst by decomposing business initiatives into features and capabilities that can be delivered incrementally across multiple systems and platforms.
• Perform system analysis activities including functional decomposition, data analysis, interface analysis, and definition of system behaviours to support solution design and development.
• Collaborate closely with Solution Architects and development teams to ensure business requirements are technically feasible, well understood, and aligned to solution architecture.
• Analyse and document end-to-end business and system processes, identifying upstream and downstream impacts across integrated systems.
• Support delivery within regulated environments by ensuring requirements consider auditability, security, data privacy, and compliance constraints typical of banking and financial services.

Requirements

• At least 6-7 years experience in Business Analysis across a custom software development environment.
• Experienced with Scrum Principles in an Agile Environment.
• Proven project experience in writing user stories, epics, features, in line with the INVEST principles of agile.
• At least 3 years experience in Agile Projects.
• Working knowledge of (OAS) Open API specification 2.0 and 3.0.
• Able to read and interpret JSON and XML files.
• Agile Certification (advantageous).
• Ability to understand and work using the Behaviour Driven Development (BDD) & Test-Driven Development (TDD) approach for new requirements that require development.

Qualifications

Formal qualification such as a B. Com or BSc, diploma or certification (IIBA or similar).

Salary & Benefits