Business Analyst Job at awamo - Career Opportunity in Uganda
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Vacancy title:
Business Analyst

Jobs at:
Awamo Uganda Ltd

Deadline of this Job:
18th March 2019  

Duty Station:
Kampala , Uganda , East Africa , 00256

Summary
Date Posted: 25th February 2019 , Base Salary: Not Disclosed , Employment Type: Full-Time , Currency: Ush

 

JOB DETAILS:
Overview
The job entails investigating and analyzing awamo’s business requirements towards product development and new feature adaptations and relaying them to the development team for easy implementation.
Qualifications
Academic/Skills
• Bachelors’ degree in computer science, Information Technology, Software Engineering or any other related field – equivalent work experience will be considered as well
• Certificate in Project Management
• Fluency in English
Work experience
• Min. 3 years working experience
• Experience in developing financial software solutions
• Experience in project management
• Experience in requirements engineering
• Experience in software functioning testing and documentation
• Experience in agile software development
Personality
• Fast thinker/solution oriented
• Ability to work with remote teams
• Self-motivated
• Strong analytical skills & structured approach to work
• Willingness to work long or irregular hours
Responsibilities & duties
• Own the software development process of awamo’s IT Team. o Build a trusting and safe environment where problems and concerns can be raised without fear of blame, retribution, or being judged, with an emphasis on problem-solving.
o Facilitate discussion, decision making, and conflict resolution.
o Assist with internal and external communication, improving transparency, and radiating information.
o Support the Product Owner, especially on grooming and maintaining the product backlog.
o Provide all support to the team using a servant leadership style whenever possible and leading by example.
o Ensure continuous improvement of the development process, e.g. by organizing and facilitating regular retrospective meetings; consulting with individual developers, team leads, CTO and stakeholders of awamo’s software product, such as product management, support and/or sales.
o Ensure alignment of all involved developers and team leads along the current and future planning iteration, e.g. by organizing and facilitating planning, kick-off and/or daily stand-up meetings, ensuring a smooth and effective communication and feedback flow between the IT Team and its stakeholders.
o Planning and monitoring by foreseeing product limitations and raising issues to business to adapt support mechanisms to mitigate risk during the project
• Gather requirements, in close collaboration with product management, from all necessary stakeholders, and simplifying to make the most efficient usage of awamo’s resources.
o Translate business requirements, in close cooperation with product management, to best suit developer interpretation and meet the awamo’s business needs.
o Assist stakeholders of awamo’s product, primarily product management, by quantifying requirements in terms of project scope and timelines
o Communicate and update business and product management on development projects.
o Facilitate testing of solutions to ensure adaptation has been implemented according to business’ needs.

 

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Job application procedure
All interested candidates should apply through the careers page on our website; www.awamo.com . No hard copy applications or applications sent through email directly will be accepted

 

Job Info
Job Category: Corporate / Organisation Specialist jobs in Uganda
Job Type: Full-time
Deadline of this Job:  18th March 2019
Duty Station: Uganda
Posted: 25-02-2019
No of Jobs: 1
Start Publishing: 25-02-2019
Stop Publishing (Put date of 2030): 25-04-2062
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