Specialist Solution Analyst

Empowering Africa’s tomorrow, together…one story at a time.

With over 100 years of rich history and strongly positioned as a local bank with regional and international expertise, a career with our family offers the opportunity to be part of this exciting growth journey, to reset our future and shape our destiny as a proudly African group.

Job Summary

International Payments for PAN Africa is looking for a passionate, motivated and engaged Solution/System Analyst.

Our area provides systems and capabilities to process both Incoming, Outgoing and Off-Absa cross-border payments via SWIFT.

Our aim is to provide a consistent experience to our customers across Africa and uplift our environment.

As a team we continuously strive to streamline our processes and ways of working, and creating room for innovation.

Job Description

Work as part of a DevOps team, leverage specialist analysis & testing tools, frameworks, techniques and practices to elicit, define and organize business requirements. 
Translate & document business requirements into user stories & specifications (Full Stack, Cross System) detailing integration points, business & associated risk / opportunities to be realised. 
Following this analysis, work collaboratively within squads during design & delivery activity including assuming responsibility for manual application testing processes, frameworks & outcomes.

Education and critical skills required:

• Bachelor’s degree in a technical field or relevant experience
• 5+ years’ experience in software and business analysis & tools.

Additional skills/experience that will be an advantage:

• Knowledge of MS SQL & Data analytics tools.
• Azure DevOps
• Knowledge of the National Payment System and background in Payments specifically SWIFT/International settlements will be advantageous.
• Technical leadership, critical thinking and DevOps focused

Key Responsibilities:

• Excellent communication and relationship building skills.
• Ability to translate & document business requirements into user stories & specifications (Full stack, Cross System), detailing integration points, business & associated risk/opportunities to be realized.
• Apply critical thinking, design thinking and problem-solving skills in an agile team environment to solve technical problems (Front End, Back End OR Middleware) with high quality solutions
• Contribute to all phases of the development lifecycle including
• Define and monitor overall backlog planning for effective solutions and delivery.  
• Evaluate analysis, problem definition, business requirements, solution development & provide recommendations to enable the operational feasibility of solutions
• Quickly produce well-organized, optimized documented requirements to deliver technical solutions
• Ensure designs & solutions support the technical organization principles of self-service, repeatability, testability, scalability & resilience
• Supporting and managing your applications delivery all the way to production
• Work collaboratively within squads during design, build and testing activities including assuming responsibilities for application testing processes, frameworks, delivery management and outcomes.
• Provide input into project & program teams (when required) to plan & manage the development lifecycle e.g. releases, risk management, testing, integration etc.
• Conduct reviews, performance monitoring & ongoing optimization and maintenance on applications
• Stay ahead of the curve on emerging payment standards and practices and continuously evolve existing knowledge & skill.

Education