Feature Analyst – Intermediate (Card) (m/f)

Description

• The Feature Analyst is accountable for guiding the clarification of the business requirements, through in-work collaboration with the business stakeholders/product owners, and working within the feature team to ensure these are delivered effectively. This is a Capricorn Group role with Group entity responsibility

Duties

• Prioritize and plan work activities within the feature team
• Facilitate and participate in discovery/inception workshops to create a shared understanding of user needs and the potential technology solution required to deliver to these needs
• Identify user journeys that map out how a user will go through the system.
• Work ahead of the team to get clarity on some requirements before the next iteration
• Create relevant user stories and facilitate estimation (Story points)
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams comprised of product management,/UX, technology, support, testing, and other subject matter experts to gather and analyze functional needs and user story requirements Groom user stories through business interviews, workshops or procedures and map user stories ensuring they come together as a cohesive whole
• Provide the Product Owner with key information for prioritization and estimation
• Facilitate and participate in iteration meetings (product backlog grooming, planning meeting, daily stand-up, review meeting, retrospectives, and planning ceremonies)
• Obtain sign-off during iteration review sessions
• Manage the stories and features in VSTS, ensuring that all requirements are loaded as stories, ensuring the stories are assigned to features and features to epics
• Support showcasing stories to stakeholders
• Work very closely with the user experience team to ensure that processes, wireframes, and content are optimally intuitive to end-users
• Manage the Backlog for the Feature Team:
• Ensure that the activities needed to fulfill each item in the backlog are identified, outlined, and prioritized before the next sprint
• Identify missing requirements
• Clarify the goals and business value of Minimum Marketable Features/Minimal Viable Products
• Clarify any ambiguity until it is understood by the team
• Review user stories with the Product Owner with a strategic point of view
• Capture and keep the business and data rules up-to-date
• Ensure that where stories are blocked, these stories are prioritized to other iterations and new stories identified to replace them in the current iteration
• Ensure that features and user stories are complete and up to date on VSTS
• Create reports as per request from ePMO and Scrum master
• Collaborate with the team to deliver on backlog:
• Wear different hats: designer, tester, facilitator, product owner, etc.
• Create a shared understanding of what the product is supposed to do
• Collaborate with the rest of the feature team to ensure that stories are delivered effectively and quality standards are adhered to
• Collaborate with developers, testers, and user experience team to ensure that they are engaged ‘in the work’ to understand the business context
• Core Competencies:
• Deciding and Initiating Action
• Leading and Supervising
• Working with People
• Adhering to principles & values
• Relating and Networking
• Persuading and Influencing
• Presenting and Communicating Information
• Writing and Reporting
• Applying Expertise and Technology
• Analyzing
• Learning & Researching
• Creating and Innovating
• Formulating Strategies and Concepts
• Planning and organizing
• Delivering Results and Meeting Customer Expectations
• Following Instructions and Procedures
• Adapting and Responding to Change
• Coping with Pressures and Setbacks
• Achieving Personal Work Goals and Objectives
• Entrepreneurial and Commercial Thinking

Requisites

• Bachelors Degree or Relevant Diploma in Information Technology or Computer Science
• Fundamental Card and related emerging digital consumer payments knowledge
• Troubleshooting and organisational skills
• Ability to analyse statistics and other data, interpret and evaluate results, and create reports and presentations for use by others
• The coordination of relationships with and between key stakeholders, during the design, management and implementation of business change
• Ability to review and study relevant information from various sources to develop new information; Ability to identify primary and secondary authorities to validate the research
• The planning and implementation of organization-wide processes and procedures for the management of operational risk
• Knowledge and understanding of the techniques for validating requirements for form and content
• Visual Studio 2013 ,Team Foundation Server, Visual Studio Team Services or Azure DevOps
• Experience designing and working with n-tier architectures (UI, Business Logic Layer, Data Access Layer) along with experience with service-oriented architectures (SOA)
• Software implementation best practices
• Software Development Life Cycle
• Experience with formal software development processes and methodologies such as Agile or SCRUM
• Minimum of 3 years experience as a Business, Systems, or Feature Analyst

Notes

• Only shortlisted applicants will be contacted