Senior Feature Analyst at Old Mutual

Job Description

• The Feature Analyst II is responsible for translating moderately complex business requirements into clear, actionable user stories and functional specifications.
• Working with a level of autonomy, the incumbent facilitates the elicitation and clarification of requirements through collaboration with business stakeholders and agile delivery teams.
• This job contributes to the analysis and refinement of epics and features, ensuring a shared understanding of the business value and the intended user outcomes.
• It guides the definition of acceptance criteria, produces relevant analysis artifacts, and supports the agile team throughout the delivery cycle.
• This job applies analytical thinking and facilitation skills to ensure alignment between business goals and technology solutions, while identifying opportunities to continuously improve both user experience and product performance.

RESPONSIBILITIES

Business Requirements Identification | INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY/DIGITAL | BUSINESS AND SYSTEMS ANALYSIS 

• Collect business requirements using a variety of methods, such as interviews, document analysis, workshops, and workflow analysis, to express the requirements in terms of target user roles and goals.

Feature Product and Solution Development | PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT | PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT 

• Contribute to the analysis and evaluation of complex features and user stories to ensure alignment with business goals and delivery priorities across multiple teams or workstreams.
• Supports defining the breakdown of epics into features, and features into user stories with clearly defined acceptance criteria, ensuring alignment with Program Increment planning cycles. Work closely with business and technical stakeholders to refine and shape product solutions

Agile Backlog Management | PROJECT AND PROGRAM MANAGEMENT | PROJECT/PROGRAM/PORTFOLIO MANAGEMENT

• Review the backlog of work for a small project and reprioritize the work and deployment of project resources to reduce costs and increase the value of the work delivered to the business.

Business Case | GENERAL | ADVICE 

• Carry out feasibility and assessment work for proposed and current projects to contribute to the development and continuous review of business cases.

Requirements Management | PROJECT AND PROGRAM MANAGEMENT | PROJECT/PROGRAM/PORTFOLIO MANAGEMENT 

• Identify, elicit, and document project/process requirements, using appropriate modeling technique, if required. Analyze requirements and validate with original users, eliminating confusion. Maintain documentation and traceability throughout project.

Analysis of “As Is” and “To Be” | INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY/DIGITAL | BUSINESS AND SYSTEMS ANALYSIS 

• Document “as is” and “to be” processes and describe the changes required to migrate to the “to be” capability to record accurately the change required.

Documentation and Backup | INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY/DIGITAL | DATA MANAGEMENT 

• Create and maintain technical and/or user documentation to a high standard, and back up files to ensure instant recovery if problems occur.

Enterprise Business Analysis | PROJECT AND PROGRAM MANAGEMENT | PROJECT/PROGRAM/PORTFOLIO MANAGEMENT 

• Interpret the business need and identify solution recommendations to business problems at a business unit level.

Feasibility Studies | INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY/DIGITAL | BUSINESS AND SYSTEMS ANALYSIS 

• Contribute to and support feasibility studies from a technological and organizational perspective, and document findings.

Prototype Development | PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT | PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT 

• Coordinate and deliver prototype development projects

Testing | RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT | RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT 

• Develop product specifications and design test procedures and standards. Collaborate with testing teams to develop and validate test cases and ensure alignment with business requirements.

Continuous Improvement | GENERAL | INNOVATION 

• Review existing operations in own area of work and implement innovation processes to generate new ideas and ensure continuous improvements are delivered. Foster Agile thinking by encouraging feedback loops within the team and continuously improving analysis and delivery practices.

Closing Date

• 22 September 2025