Technical Business Analyst (Remote)
Do you want to be part of a dynamic team constantly challenging the status quo and finding "smarter" ways of doing things? If you answered yes, keep reading.
\Who Are We?
1Nebula is a next-generation SaaS Technology Business focused on providing businesses with cloud & technology expense management services and tools to accelerate their cloud journey.
We hire amazing people from across South Africa, making our diverse group of team members, called N48Xers, a force to be reckoned with.
Learn more about our people brand by watching our culture videos:
Job Opportunity at 1Nebula:
The purpose of this position is to play a pivotal role in bridging the gap between business needs and technical execution. The ideal candidate will possess a unique mix of strategic thinking, data fluency, technical understanding, and stakeholder collaboration.
This role requires a strong understanding of data, system integrations, and RESTful APIs, along with the ability to communicate clearly with both technical and non-technical stakeholders throughout Nebula and beyond.
What You will do within this role (Your key responsibilities):
Requirements Analysis & Documentation
- Elicit and analyze business requirements through interviews, workshops, and stakeholder engagement.
- Translate business needs into functional and technical specifications, including user stories, process flows, and data mappings.
- Document current and future state processes and system behaviour.
Technical & Data Analysis
- Analyse and interpret structured and unstructured data to support solution design and reporting needs.
- Understand database structures, relationships, and data flows.
- Use tools like Excel, SQL, and BI platforms (e.g., Power BI, Tableau) for data modelling and validation if required.
- Collaborate with engineering teams to design integrations with internal and third-party systems via RESTful APIs.
- Work with development and QA teams to ensure traceability between requirements, development, and testing.
Solution Design Support
- Collaborate with Product Manager, Product Owner and UX teams on feature ideation.
- Ensure technical feasibility and align proposed solutions with business outcomes.
- Help define data validation rules, error handling, and integration points.
Stakeholder Engagement
- Act as the liaison between business stakeholders and technical teams.
- Communicate progress, clarify requirements, and manage expectations throughout the project lifecycle.
- Support go-live activities, demos, and end-user training.
Testing & Quality Assurance
- Define user acceptance test plans and acceptance criteria.
- Execute UAT and assist in identifying and documenting defects.
- Validate data outputs and system behaviour against requirements.
More about You (Our requirements for the role):
Although we believe in the potential of others more than anything else there are some minimum requirements we would look for so consider these before sending us your application
- 3+ of experience in a Business Analyst or Systems Analyst role, preferably in technology, telecoms, or cloud product environments.
- Degree in business-, computing- or relevant field.
- Additional Business Analyst certificate/diploma.
- Strong understanding of RESTful APIs and experience working with technical teams on integrations.
- Proficiency in data analysis and reporting (Excel, SQL, data visualisation tools).
Our Amazing Perks!
- Enjoy 20 Leave days a year plus a “mulligan day” each quarter after meeting all your deliverables. That’s 4 extra leave days annually!
- High spec laptops and equipment for you to comfortably work remotely.
- A once off at home office allowance to set up your home office.
- Flexible working hours. We work on a flexible schedule from Monday to Friday where you can make the hours work for you.
- Access to our Well-being program and Employee support services – we believe in work/life balance being of utmost importance for you and your family so this perk is for them too.
- Grow your skills and learn something new with paid for Microsoft courses and certifications.
- Take up a hobby and unlock a training allowance every 2 years to do something non-work related.
- Give back by participating in our Culture and Social Responsibility initiatives.
- Free Gap cover
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