Senior Business Analyst

Job Purpose/Role

The Senior Business Analyst role is a crucial analyst position within our BI and Big Data Product development team. You will work on a diverse team of international developers, QA personnel and business analysts, to implement and maintain the Global Data Warehouse of the BI domain.

The holder of this key role is responsible for providing a high level interface between our international clients, business leaders and team leaders on the ground responsible for delivering complex IT solutions. The core job purpose of the Business Analyst is to analyze and validate the software requirement, ensuring that all the needs of the stakeholders are met and to author extensive software requirement documents that bridge the gap between the needs of the stakeholders and the technical team.

This is a challenging role, which will at times include international travel, and will surely offer a rewarding experience for the chosen candidate. If you are an agile, open minded and proactive person with interest in IT and international business, you are the one we are searching for!

Key Responsibilities

• Working with clients, stakeholders and/or Product Owners in gathering, clarifying and analyzing business requirements.
• Clearly communicating software specifications to the Development teams, QA teams, Product Owners and other Stakeholders.
• Providing detailed business and technical documentation (SRS, BRD and User Stories) and functional designs(Application workflow, Reports).

• Working with the QA teams to develop test cases that accurately capture the defined

business requirements and acceptance criteria.

• Working with the Project Management teams to ensure that the development meets the established scope and timeline.
• Providing support during the development, system integration testing and user acceptance testing.
• Supporting Product Owners in decision making, problem solving, user training and reporting.

Key Requirements/ Skills/ Experience

• At least 3 years of experience as Business Analyst and 1-5 years of experience in Software development

(management, design, implementation, system analysis, service/support).

• Analytically & technically skilled – ability to assess the practicality of a solution, with reference to the business requirements, development efforts, feasibility, scalability and re-usability.

• Ability to solve problems and propose alternative solutions and workarounds where applicable.
• Must be self-motivated, self-organized, proactive and have a positive working attitude and capable to work in a team-environment.

• Excellent English verbal and written communication including presentation and documentation skills
• Detail-oriented, self-organized and motived individual

Desired requirements /Skills / Experience

• Master’s or Bachelor’s Degree in Computer and Information Science/ Business Studies/ Management.
• Experience in Agile development and Scrum Methodologies is preferred.
• Experience in Data Analysis or Insurance Business Processes will be an advantage
• SQL knowledge
• Data modelling knowledge