eHealth Africa Job for a Senior Business Analyst

eHealth Africa is focused on improving healthcare by creating effective ways to implement reliable health information management systems. We have developed eHealth and mHealth solutions that can be rapidly deployed to manage patient information and outbreak response, organize transport of
health commodities, streamline clinical procedures, monitor vaccine usage and provide data and analysis on health program outcomes.

eHealth Africa is recruiting to fill the position below:


Job Title: Senior Business Analyst
Location: Kano, Nigeria
Department: Global Health Informatics
Type: Full Time
Min. Experience: Experienced
Job Summary

• As a Senior Business Analyst is responsible for the requirements analysis and documentation, specification, development cycle and execution of a variety of software projects.
• S/he manages the sprint and release process and communicates all changes to relevant stakeholders.

• Discovers, documents, and prioritizes client needs and requirements
• Support Information Systems Manager in developing specifications, timelines and budget.
• Manages prioritization in close coordination with the programmes and engineering teams
• Decides upon release date(s) and content (Release Planning)
• Organizes and facilitates project planning, daily stand-ups, reviews, retrospectives, sprint and release planning, demos and other project-related meetings
• Understanding the technical designs as well as the specifications.
• Effectively communicating with internal teams and external clients to deliver functional requirements like  GUI, screen and interface designs.
• Acting as an interface between program units, technology teams and support teams
• Provides expertise to identify and translate system requirements into software design documentation.
• Work with technical writers to ensure quality internal and external client-oriented documentation
• Provide end to end solution and design details
• Tracks tasks and milestones and reports on the project's progress
• Support Information Systems Manager in establishing software development processes with the local development team
• Understanding business process management and business requirements of the customers and translating them to specific software requirements
• Document Business and System processes using UML notation and Case tool like Enterprise Architect.
• Making sure that the recommended solution has a competitive edge.
• Demos product functionalities for customers and senior leadership.

• Bachelor’s degree from college or university in Computer Science, Business Management, Engineering, Information Systems Technology or related field. A postgraduate degree is desirable.
• Excellent written and verbal communications with a strong aptitude for succinctly presenting thoughts and ideas to senior internal and external stakeholders.
• Organizational skills and great attention to detail.Must be able to work as a member of a team and possess good problem solving skills
• Must have the ability to manage conflicts and resolve problems effectively
• Action oriented and resilient in a fast-paced environment
• Fluent in English
• Minimum of 5 years hands-on product or project management experience with software products and solutions
• Desirables: UML, SCRUM, MICROSOFT Technologies
• Demonstrated experience to gather user requirements from a number of sources and build product requirements.  Ability to identify product improvements that meet organizational and client needs.
• Experience in an Agile/Scrum work environment