The IT Innovation Department within the Information Technology Division of Safaricom Limited is responsible for planning, designing, developing and deploying innovative business systems to deliver an integrated, agile and flexible platform enabling current and future business functional demands.
To build on the existing team of professionals, the unit is now looking to recruit
Business Analyst
Ref: IT_BA_FEB 2010
Reporting to the Manager, Analysis and Architecture, the holder of the position will be the liaison between business system users and the information technology team in as far as creating automated business solutions is concerned.
The job holder will be responsible for gathering, detailing and documenting business requirements in a format that is useful to business end users and technical developers.
Key Responsibilities
To build on the existing team of professionals, the unit is now looking to recruit
Business Analyst
Ref: IT_BA_FEB 2010
Reporting to the Manager, Analysis and Architecture, the holder of the position will be the liaison between business system users and the information technology team in as far as creating automated business solutions is concerned.
The job holder will be responsible for gathering, detailing and documenting business requirements in a format that is useful to business end users and technical developers.
Key Responsibilities
- Carry out full business requirements discovery that includes interviewing relevant stakeholders and end-users;
- Collect, classify, analyze and document business requirements as per set standards;
- Create high-level solution designs to meet business requirements by exploiting the functionality available in IT systems already in Safaricom, or by filling missing gaps with appropriate new systems, in accordance with enterprise architecture;
- Collaboratively develop test-driven business requirements and functional specifications with business, technical, and testing team members;
- Participate in technical/functional evaluation of bids for new systems Generate process documentation that clarifies and validates how the organization utilizes business systems to meet business requirements;
- Promote proper release planning, guaranteeing adherence to business needs and priorities and as a consequence, contribute to the reduction of development costs in future;
- Verify that requirements are testable and generate testing objectives;
Minimum requirements
- Degree in Science/computer science/Engineering/Business related;
- 3 years experience as a systems developer/business analyst in a busy IT development environment, 2 years of which must include experience in systems analysis;
- Expertise in enterprise architecture;
- Logical and physical data modeling, relational databases;
- Experience in writing formal Use Cases and other UML tools ;
The deadline for application is 5th February 2010.
The Senior Manager – Talent Acquisition
Safaricom Ltd
Nairobi
Via E-mail to hr @ safaricom.co.ke
