Senior Business Analyst at KCB Bank Kenya

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

• Lead requirements elicitation, analysis, validation, and verification, ensuring that requirement statements are complete, consistent, concise, comprehensible, traceable, feasible, unambiguous, and verifiable. 
• Document business, technical requirements, and functional specifications as per set standards and transfer the same knowledge to the development team. 
• Review and validate test cases and test scenarios for accuracy, coverage and conformity to requirements.
• Participate in creation of solution architecture and designs to meet business requirements through existing systems or by filling missing gaps with appropriately new systems in accordance with enterprise architecture road map.
• Ensure that technology systems are aligned with business processes, and engage business stakeholders in process reviews to ensure cost optimizationsand improved turn around time;
• Promote proper release planning, guaranteeing adherence to business needs and priorities and keep stakeholders constantly up-to-date on progress; 
• Participates in the management and execution of various levels of solution testing including user acceptance and regression tests and post implementation sanity tests. 
• Manage requirements traceability information and track requirements status throughout the project. 
• Manage business relationships with different business functions and stake holders, and participates in the prioritization of initiatives based on business needs and requirements.
• Review the current deployment approach and evaluate / propose / expose opportunities for enhancing the deployment model for new and existing solutions. 

MINIMUM POSITION QUALIFICATION REQUIREMENTS

Academic & Professional

Education  

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Information Technology, or a related field of study    RQ
• Professional Qualifications    ITIL Foundation, Certified Business Analysis Professional (CBAP), TOGAF Certification    RQ     
• Project Management    PRINCE II (Practitioner) / AgilePM / PMI-ACP / Certified Agile Project Manager (IAPM) / Certified Scrum Master (CSM)    AA     
• Master’s Degree    Business Administration or Project Management     AA     

Experience

• 5 years Progressive experience in Information Technology  
• 3 years Business analysis and architecture.
• 4 years IT Projects
• 2 years Emerging Technologies (e.g. Mobile, Internet Banking, Cloud, Microservices etc)
• 2 years Systems & Applications Support