Company Description

Standard Bank Group is a leading Africa-focused financial services group, and an innovative player on the global stage, that offers a variety of career-enhancing opportunities – plus the chance to work alongside some of the sector’s most talented, motivated professionals. Our clients range from individuals, to businesses of all sizes, high net worth families and large multinational corporates and institutions. We’re passionate about creating growth in Africa. Bringing true, meaningful value to our clients and the communities we serve and creating a real sense of purpose for you.

Job Description

To deliver value in the form of business outcomes by collaborating within the feature team and key stakeholders. Responsible for ensuring that requirements map back to the business value and that the entire feature team knows what and how they are implementing towards the desired requirement.

Your exposure and learning will include (But will not be limited to);

Capturing and keep the business and data rules up-to-date.Capturing Epics, Stories and tasks onto Jira and produce periodic statistics and reports.Clarifying any ambiguity until it is understood by the team.Collaborating with cross-functional teams comprised of product management, /UX, technology, support, testing and other subject matter experts to gather and analyse functional needs and user story requirements.Creating a shared understanding of what the product is supposed to do.Creating relevant analysis documentation resulting from elicitation sessions.Ensuring that the activities needed to fulfil each item in the backlog are identified and outlined before the next sprint.Ensuring that where stories are blocked, these stories are identified for prioritisation to other iterations and new stories identified to replace them in the current iteration.Facilitating and participate in discovery/inception workshops to create a shared understanding of user needs and the potential technology solution required to deliver to these needs.

Qualifications

Final year undergraduate, Honours or Masters Degree (Completed or currently completing in 2025);

Computer ScienceElectronic EngineeringInformatics, Information SystemsInformation TechnologySoftware DevelopmentSoftware Engineering

Additional Information

MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS

Must be a South African citizenMust be under 30 years of ageNo more than two years’ work experienceMinimum of 65% average over all years of study

KEY SKILLS AND ATTRIBUTES

Working collaboratively with othersResilienceCreative problem solving and considered decision makingCuriosity and willingness to learnPositive attitude and self confidenceBusiness acumen