May 7, NCBA Manager – Business Analysis Jobs in Kenya

Job Purpose Statement

The Manager Business Analysis will be responsible for leading a team of Business Analysts in applying business analysis tasks and techniques. The role will work as a liaison among stakeholders in the Business Units and the Technical teams in order to understand the structure, policies and operations, and to recommend technical solutions that enable the Business Units to achieve their goals.

The role is responsible for carrying out business analysis tasks, including the identification and documentation of actionable user requirements in the form of a Business Requirements Document.

Key Accountabilities (Duties and Responsibilities)

Strategic Planning

Together with the architects, communicate with the heads of their business units to understand their local strategies, develop corresponding long-term plans for IT, negotiate these plans with local business leaders and document the agreed plans for IT as Considerations and Visions relevant for their business units

Initiative Delivery

Participate in Initiative Delivery Step 1: Initiatiation, which entails definition of the BRD (by BA), Solution Overview and Solution Designs (by Architects).

Work with the teams that are writing business cases

for new initiatives, participate in writing of RFP documents, work with product management teams

to define solution features.

Analysis and Documentation of Requirements- The

role will be responsible for the analysis of Business

Requirements and documenting Business

Requirements Documents (BRD) using documents

from business teams such as Product Management,

for example documents on Confluence, and screen

mock-ups. The BRD will clearly define the

requirements from a technical perspective,

documenting details of new solution technical

capabilities and/or how existing solutions will be

modified to provide the desired technical

capabilities. The role is also responsible for

questioning – to a point of technical clarity – the

need for the requests made in the business

requirements.

Requirements assessment and validation: The role

must test requirements (prior to implementation) to

ensure that they meet stakeholder objectives and

are technically sound. In order to do this, the role

must develop the master test plan, which is

developed to test the requirements, and which may

also be responsible for Technical Quality Assurance

once the final project deliverables are ready.

Management, Communication and Control of

Business Requirements: Using the Requirements Work

Plan, the role shall manage the business analysis

process; the role shall also manage changes to

documents and requirements and the RWP; track status of tasks in the RWP; communicate with stakeholders such as the project manager, business

sponsor, and others involved in the business analysis

and project management process.

Assists the architects to write Solution Overviews and Solution Designs based on the BRD

Communicate with other analysts and business

analysts to enable global optimization of strategic

IT-related decisions.

Ideal Job Specifications

A Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Information Technology or related field of study from a recognized university.

At least 4 years’ work experience as a systems developer/business analyst in a busy IT development environment, 2 years of which must include experience in systems analysis.

Preferably certified in CBAP or IIBA

Familiarity with DevOps, Agile working and CICD

Experience in writing formal Use Cases and other UML tools

Experience in software development lifecycle management using waterfall, agile & hybrid methodologies.

Excellent systems analytical and communication (written and verbal) skills along with meeting facilitation skills

Proven track record for delivery of large scale, complex projects delivering financial customer solutions; demonstrable leadership skills and organizational experience.

Demonstrated experience in producing requirements that support test-driven development.

Ability to communicate and influence others.

How to Apply

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