Location: Kenya (On-site)
Employment Type: Full-time
Level: Mid-Senior level
Company Description:
IOTA Foundation is a non-profit organization that created the Tangle, a distributed ledger designed as a foundation for a global protocol for all things connected. The open-source Tangle ecosystem is designed to become the catalyst for new economic systems and business models, enabling a convergence of several key vertical industries. The company has 51-200 employees and is in the Technology, Information, and Internet industry.
Job Description:
We are looking for a Senior Business Analyst to join our Trade Logistics Information Pipeline (TLIP) project team. In this role, you will be the vital link between our software engineering and business teams. You will support and ensure the successful completion of analytical, building, testing, and deployment tasks of our software product features.
Responsibilities:
- Identify business challenges and opportunities for improvement. Using analysis, solve for the opportunities and improvements to make strategic or tactical recommendations.
- Support market positioning efforts and strategic intent for the products. Help build targeted insights to inform the design and development of new customer experiences, as well as breakthrough technology and concepts designed to deliver on new go-to-market strategies.
- Ability to use data to tell a story of customer experience, highlighting both successes and friction points to inform future initiatives and strategies.
- Involve problem frameworks, develop hypotheses, test and analysis, solution development, scope operational feasibility, lead implementation efforts and develop a monitoring plan.
- Gather critical information from meetings with various stakeholders and produce useful reports.
- Simplify information and decipher technical jargon so it is easily understood by the whole team and external stakeholders.
Required Skills:
- Analytical Skills
- Business Analysis
- Business Requirements
- Communication
- IT Documentation
Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree required
- 5+ years of experience in business analysis, especially in the development of information technology systems.
- Professional certification in business analysis such as CBAP or its equivalent
- Have a clear methodology for executing assigned tasks including the software development life cycle.
- Good knowledge in the utilization of APIs for integration purposes with internal and external systems and documentation of the same.
- Proven experience and evidence in developing designs for large scale, multi-user distributed systems
- Proven experience in technical writing of technical system documentation for ICT large scale solutions.
- Good report writing and communication skills in both Kiswahili and English.
Desired Qualifications:
- 3+ years of experience in implementation of systems related to international trade or plants/livestock standards systems (e.g., Single Window, ASYCUDA, GENS).
Candidate Qualities:
- Highly motivated, energetic, hardworking self-starter
- Ability to produce timely deliverables and manage multiple and shifting priorities in a dynamic environment
- Strong problem-solving skills
- Ability to build strong business relationships in a team environment
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills with the ability to drive agreement using strategic influencing, intellect, interpersonal, and negotiation skills
- Solid organizational and multitasking skills
- Constructively challenge the process and take the initiative to search for opportunities to grow, improve and innovate
- Strong acumen for learning new technology
If you’re interested in this opportunity and want to join our collaborative team, please visit our website to see the current open positions: www.iota.org/the-foundation/work-at-the-iota-foundation. We look forward to hearing from
