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DCV Sabenza IT and Recruitment

Business Analyst at Sabenza IT & Recruitment

DCV Sabenza IT and Recruitment

  • R Undisclosed
  • Permanent Senior position
  • Johannesburg
  • Posted 30 Jun 2025 by DCV Sabenza IT and Recruitment
  • Expires in 30 days
  • Job 2615226 - Ref 878000006649725
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About the position

As a Business Analyst, you will play a critical role in translating business goals into actionable solutions, supporting the Product Owner and delivery teams to ensure alignment between development outputs and business outcomes. You’ll be at the center of the agile delivery process—defining user stories, validating against acceptance criteria, assessing feasibility, and enabling clear communication between business and technical stakeholders.


Your focus will be on maximizing value, enabling efficient iteration planning, and ensuring delivery of customer-centric, digitally enabled solutions.



Key Accountabilities

  • Define Business Needs: Translate the current state into clearly articulated problem statements, opportunities, or constraints, supporting ideation with business motivation and desired outcomes.
  • User Story Development: Collaborate with the Product Owner and stakeholders to define and prioritize user stories and ensure they are broken down and ready for development.
  • Facilitate Agile Delivery: Ensure requirements are clearly understood by development teams, support the definition and execution of acceptance tests, and facilitate backlog refinement.
  • Cross-Team Communication: Work across squads and commercial teams to assess impacts and incorporate change management activities into delivery.
  • Risk & Opportunity Analysis: Identify delivery risks, dependencies, and opportunities; support transparent reporting and iterative planning.
  • Design Thinking & CX: Contribute to designing end-to-end journeys and fulfillment processes with a user-centric approach.


Requirements
  • Proficient in user story creation, refinement, and backlog management.
  • Deep understanding of Agile frameworks (Scrum, SAFe, Kanban) and experience operating in digital product environments.
  • Experience in user and technical acceptance testing, including defining criteria and validating outcomes.
  • Skilled in customer experience design, market research, and lean product development (MVPs).
  • Strong data-driven decision-making mindset.
  • Familiar with business capability mapping, digital process design, and enterprise-scale systems.
  • Proficiency with team collaboration tools such as JIRA, Confluence, MS Project.
  • Strong facilitation, time management, and problem-solving skills.
  • Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Business Administration, or a related field.
  • 3–5 years of relevant work experience, with at least 2+ years in a Business Analyst or equivalent role in agile software development.
  • Experience across the end-to-end product lifecycle, from MVP to scaled solutions.
  • Proven track record of working with agile methodologies and managing senior stakeholders.
  • Knowledge of telecommunications industry is strongly preferred.
  • Familiarity with JIRA, Confluence, and other agile planning tools.

Apply now and be part of the journey to redefine digital telecom.

Desired Skills:

  • SAFe
  • Scrum
  • Kanban
  • JIRA/Confluence
  • MS Project

Desired Qualification Level:

  • Degree

About The Employer:


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DCV Sabenza IT and Recruitment

About the agency

Dedicated to the recruitment of IT professionals Sabenza iT is a South African registered business focusing on Finance, Engineering, SAP and general iT recruitment. We have over 18 years' experience in recruiting in South Africa, Australia, Europe, South America and Asia and have worked with a number of large companies offering the best service. We at Sabenza iT understands the changing market and we mold our services around each of our client's needs to offer a personal service. Sabenza iT has forged strong relationships with both Clients and Consultants by ensuring both parties get the most out of every placement. Our Head Office is based in South Africa and we have a satellite office in the UK so that we can keep in contact with expats who may consider returning to South Africa and so that we can offer our services globally for Consultants looking to go to South Africa and Consultants who are looking for opportunities abroad. We at Sabenza recognize the difference it makes to maintain good client relationships and we are keeping our client base niche and manageable in order to give the best service possible. We have gained a good reputation in the market place and have built a very large network and database of consultants that we draw from for each role. We are able to send applications within 24 hours of receiving a role profile or spec. We use one of the best Database software tools available to keep our database up to date and very fast to search. Sabenza iT does not only use job-sites, we headhunt and we use our network to find our clients the right Candidates. We have a strong Facebook presence and we have over 12,000 LinkedIn connections. For further information, please visit our website www.sabenzait.co.za or call me at any time on Tel: 0330040131.

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