Blue Pearl HQ

Business Analyst

Blue Pearl HQ  •  Johannesburg, ZA (Onsite)  •  1 day ago
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Job Description


The Business Analyst will own requirements definition and product backlog specification across the delivery lifecycle. The successful candidate will act as the connective tissue between clinical stakeholders, solution architects, and the engineering team, translating clinical and business intent into structured, build-ready requirements that engineering teams can execute against and clinical stakeholders can validate.


This role requires a strong analytical mindset, excellent stakeholder engagement capabilities, and experience working within Agile delivery environments, particularly across data, analytics, or platform-driven projects.


Requirements


Key Responsibilities


  • Elicit, document, analyse, and refine functional and technical requirements across:

    • Clinical data ingestion

    • Signal processing

    • Analytical model workflows

  • Translate clinical and business requirements into:

    • Structured user stories

    • Acceptance criteria

    • Functional specifications

    • Build-ready backlog items

  • Own and maintain the product backlog as a living specification by:

    • Refining and decomposing requirements

    • Clarifying delivery scope

    • Preparing backlog items ahead of sprint planning

  • Facilitate:

    • Backlog refinement sessions

    • Stakeholder playback workshops

    • Sprint planning activities

  • Document:

    • Business processes

    • Data flows

    • Integration touchpoints

    • Functional workflows

  • Ensure documentation standards are suitable for:

    • Engineering build execution

    • Clinical validation

    • Governance and audit requirements

  • Manage requirements traceability across delivery sprints to ensure alignment between:

    • Scope

    • Delivery objectives

    • Governance standards

    • Stakeholder expectations

  • Collaborate closely with:

    • Clinical stakeholders

    • Product owners

    • Engineering teams

    • Architects

    • Delivery leads


Minimum Requirements


  • Minimum 5+ years’ experience as a Business Analyst

  • Proven experience working on:

    • Data platforms

    • Analytics projects

    • Technology platform engagements

  • Demonstrable experience:

    • Writing user stories

    • Managing Agile product backlogs

    • Supporting sprint-based delivery environments

  • Strong requirements gathering and stakeholder facilitation skills

  • Strong documentation and process-mapping capabilities

  • Experience working within Agile / Scrum methodologies


Preferred Experience


  • Exposure to healthcare, clinical, or life sciences environments

  • Experience working with regulated industry stakeholders

  • Understanding of clinical systems, healthcare data, or analytical workflows

  • Exposure to data integration and platform transformation initiatives


Key Competencies


  • Strong analytical and problem-solving skills

  • Excellent communication and stakeholder engagement abilities

  • High attention to detail

  • Strong facilitation and workshop management skills

  • Ability to translate complex business requirements into technical deliverables

  • Organised and delivery-focused

  • Ability to work in cross-functional Agile teams


Technical & Functional Skills


Essential


  • Agile / Scrum methodologies

  • User story creation and backlog management

  • Business process mapping

  • Requirements elicitation and analysis

  • Stakeholder management

  • Documentation and traceability management


Advantageous


  • Clinical systems exposure

  • Healthcare analytics understanding

  • Data platform and integration experience

  • Regulated industry experience


Ideal Candidate Profile


The ideal candidate will be a highly structured and detail-oriented Business Analyst who is comfortable operating between technical and non-technical stakeholders. They should have the ability to drive clarity across complex data and clinical workflows while ensuring engineering teams receive clearly defined, executable requirements.

Blue Pearl HQ

About Blue Pearl HQ

Blue Pearl is a market-leading CLOUD Solutions developer with extensive knowledge and insight into the latest technologies, standardised processes, advanced technical capabilities and consulting processes available, ensuring wholistic success for our clientele. We offer professional consulting to compliment your business strategy and overall management and make it our priority to add value to any business by listening, analysing and creating a conducive solution that will empower our client.

We implement a Data Analysis Process that includes inspecting, cleansing, transforming, and modelling data with the end-goal of discovering useful information, informing conclusions, and relevant information to support your decision-making. Your business cannot afford not to engage with us, allowing our data analysis to play a role in making your business decisions more scientific and helping your business achieve effective operation.

Blue Pearl’s team of experts include BI strategists, BI analysts, Data Warehouse Architects, Data Scientists, Implementation and Development experts. With the use of BI, Analytics and Big Data, we effectively partner with our customers on their mission to achieve a competitive business advantage and real ROI from the structured information we collect.

Industry
IT & Software
Company Size
11-50 employees
Headquarters
Johannesburg, ZA
Year Founded
2013
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