Senior Feature Analyst - Identity and Access Management (IAM)

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Job Description

The Senior Feature analyst takes overall responsibility for driving requirements by working closely with the Product Owner, Solutions Architect, Designers and Business stakeholders to design and implement industry-led solutions.

Guiding and mentoring other feature analysts to deliver on business outcomes.

Serve as thought leader for technical business processes that promote increased efficiency and productivity on multiple levels.

Supporting the Product Manager /Product Owner in management activities, including scope management, stakeholder management and timely delivery.

Prioritise and Plan work activities within the Feature Team

• Creating and prioritising the product backlog that aligns with the product vision and goals, and continuously refining it based on feedback and changing business needs.
• Ensure that the product backlog items are clearly defined, well understood, and properly estimated by the development team
• Collaborating closely with cross-functional teams (i.e. developers, architects, marketers, engineers and quality engineers) to ensure that the product meets customer needs.
• Driving an Agile delivery approach with the agile delivery team by working in the agile processes such as Iteration, release planning, backlog refinement, retrospectives, sprint review, daily stand-ups
• Provide subject matter proficiency in specific functional area(s) to the Feature team
• Translates conceptual customer requirements into functional requirements in user stories in a clear manner that is understandable to the Feature team.
• Creating specifications, diagrams, and charts to provide direction to the Feature team
• Work with process engineers to adopt, influence and update processes
• Staying up to date on the latest process and IT advancements to automate and modernise systems.
• Effectively communicating your insights and plans to cross-functional team members and management.
• Partner with stakeholders across business units (to develop analyses and documentation in a collaborative way, communicating effectively and efficiently with production, managerial, and executive teams
• Performing QA, regression and user acceptance testing and assisting quality engineers to define strategy and approaches and test case development.
• Owning and driving the Definition of Done to ensure efficient development of solutions.
• Identifying issues, risks and benefits of existing and proposed solutions and outlining business impacts.
  
  

Feature Analyst Chapter Lead

• The Senior Feature Analyst could operate with a team of feature analysts directly or indirectly reporting into the Senior Feature Analyst and depends on the requirement of the team. The Senior Feature Analyst works with the Feature Analyst Practice Lead to drive the feature analyst practice
• Drive the necessary change in practice and culture with the feature analysts in the team
• Define and establish best practices, methodologies and standards
• Contribute to the Feature Analyst learning journey
• Facilitating regular practice engagement sessions to foster collaboration and knowledge sharing within the practice
• Drive the agile methodology and culture to support the agile practice within the organization
• Ensure measurement of performance are in place for the feature analysts
  
  

Sourcing and Recruitment

• Support the Feature Analyst Practice Lead in sourcing and contracting of feature analysts.
• Participate in the recruitment process to appoint feature analysts.
  
  

Role Requirements:

Qualification:

• BA / IT qualification
• ITIL accredited (Foundation level)
  
  

Experience / Skills

• 5-8 years of experience as a Business analyst or Systems analyst in senior / strategic role
• Agile experience, with an understanding of the methodology and its principles
• Solid understanding and in-depth knowledge of Business and IT capabilities
• High level understanding of the architectural landscape
• Strong technical knowledge and proven business and systems analysis skills at a senior level
• Strategic planning
• Ability to motivate and empower teams and individuals.
• Experience in JIRA / Confluence / Figma / MIRO
• Business Process Modelling tools
• Experience in data interpretation.
  
  

Additional Qualifications/Experience (preferred, Not a Requirement)

• Bachelor’s Degree in Information Technology, Computer Science or equivalent
• SAFe certification (advantageous)
• Lean Six Sigma Certification (advantageous)
• Banking and Financial Services experience
• Knowledge of Old Mutual products and processes (optional)
• Business Analyst certificates
• Identity and Access Management knowledge (Customer, Partner and workforce identities)
• Good understanding of IAM governance and access provisioning
  
  

Skills

Education

Closing Date

13 July 2024

The appointment will be made from the designated group in line with the Employment Equity Plan of Old Mutual South Africa and the specific business unit in question.

Old Mutual Limited is pro-vaccination and encourages its workforce to be fully vaccinated against Covid-19.

All prospective employees are required to disclose their vaccination status as part of the recruitment process.

Please refer to the Old Mutual’s Covid-19 vaccination policy for further detail. Kindly note that Old Mutual reserves the right to reinstate the requirement to vaccinate at any point if it is of the view that it is imperative to do so.

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