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Senior Business Analyst at Safaricom Kenya

Expired
Job Overview
Employment FullTime
Location Safaricom House, Waiyaki Way, Westlands Kenya
Experience At least 5 years
Education Level Bachelor's Degree
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Opportunities Meet Aspirations

Key Responsibilities:

  • Lead end-to-end business analysis activities by engaging stakeholders to elicit, validate, and document business needs, ensuring alignment with strategic objectives.
  • Translate business requirements into high-impact solution designs, leveraging existing enterprise systems and identifying gaps where new solutions are needed, in line with architectural standards.
  • Facilitate collaborative workshops with business, technical, and QA teams to co-create testable, traceable, and value-driven functional specifications.
  • Drive consensus and clarity across cross-functional teams to ensure shared understanding of requirements, minimizing ambiguity and rework during delivery.
  • Support vendor and solution evaluation processes, contributing to technical and functional assessments during procurement and implementation phases.
  • Champion continuous improvement by identifying opportunities to optimize business processes, enhance system capabilities, and improve stakeholder engagement.
  • Mentor junior analysts and contribute to best practices, ensuring consistency, quality, and innovation in business analysis deliverables.
  • Develop and maintain comprehensive process documentation that accurately reflects how business systems support organizational objectives, ensuring clarity, traceability, and alignment with business requirements.
  • Ensure IT systems and solutions are tightly aligned with business processes, facilitating stakeholder engagement in process reviews to:
  • Minimize development costs for new applications and products,
  • Enable rapid response to evolving business needs and regulatory changes,
  • Enhance user and customer experience through improved quality assurance.
  • Maintain proactive stakeholder communication, providing regular updates on progress, risks, and changes to ensure alignment and manage expectations.
  • Ensure requirements are testable and measurable and collaborate with QA teams to define clear testing objectives and acceptance criteria.
  • Review and validate test cases and UAT results, ensuring they accurately reflect business requirements and support successful solution delivery.

Qualifications

  • Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Information Systems, Engineering, or a related business/technology field.
  • Minimum 5 years of experience in gathering and documenting business requirements and translating them into technical specifications. 
  • Experience in driving projects to completion on their own. 
  • Strong understanding of enterprise architecture principles and their application in designing scalable, future-ready solutions.
  • Experience in designing and integrating solutions within existing enterprise application landscapes (e.g., CRM, ERP, SCM).
  • Proven ability to produce clear, testable requirements that support test-driven development and ensure traceability throughout the delivery lifecycle.
  • Demonstrated experience working in cross-functional teams to deliver technology solutions that align with business strategy and enhance customer experience.

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