Opening for Senior Business Analyst - UI/UX with Emirates

Job description

To understand the business strategy of assigned business unit(s) and to translate strategies into IT initiatives to ensure that the LOB system landscape aligns with Business and EG-IT strategies. The job holder will analyze customer business strategies and plans, processes and practices as well as industry trends and make recommendations in quantifiable terms on where IT system changes could produce benefits such as reduction in unit cost of operation, enhanced productivity and improved decisions.

Job Outline:

• Provide a consulting service to the business by utilizing domain expertise and recommend initiatives where Emirates IT could add value through high level enterprise information management and business intelligence solution design.
• Understand the business strategy and work with the Business IT Manager (BITM) to develop initiatives and present them to decision makers within the customer business unit.
• Solicit and evaluate business requests to determine cost feasibility research and identify options and recommend solutions that best serve business needs across the enterprise.
• Monitor changes in the IT domain and in the customers' business environment. Regularly and proactively review how these changes might impact Emirates IT's ability to improve its services. Liaise with relevant IT departments to ensure that changes in customers' business landscape is reflected in the overall business architecture technology and applications.
• Oversee the analysis done by Business Analysts as they capture and document business objectives and functional requirements and translate them into requirements and solution definition documents as per QMS for system solutions in a comprehensive, meaningful and well-structured manner. This includes ensuring that the proposed business solution will deliver the expected benefits. Ensure that the end product aligns with business strategy.
• Oversee the production of the logical systems design (detailing business information flow/process) for a proposed solution. This includes detailed business use cases, system use cases, entity relationship modelling, function hierarchy diagramming and process modelling, function to entity mapping and attributing the entities etc. as appropriate to the methodology being used.
• Provide inputs for Requests For Proposals/Requests for Information, Application demos, presentations and pre-sales related workshops, Business cases and proposals.
• Set clear and consistent performance objectives, implement performance management and development plans to ensure standards of performance and productivity are achieved and maintained enabling a high performance culture.

• Degree or Honours (12+3 or equivalent)
• 8+ years experience in Information Technology/Development
• Able to strategize, monitor and mentor creative designers and deliveries.
• Excellent team player and good at Co-ordinator with multiple stakeholders.
• Conceptual understanding of User Interface Design and the Design Process.
• Excellent time-management, multi-tasking, and communication skills. Capable of juggling multiple projects and related complexities at the same time.
• Solid portfolio demonstrating design savvy.
• Good eye for aesthetics: layout, grid systems, colour theory and typography.
• Strong understanding of mobile platforms, particularly iOS, Android, HTML5 and Windows
• Phone 8. Design Tools: Photoshop, Illustrator and Fireworks.
• Understanding of the limitations of web and mobile, with approaches/ideas to flex those boundaries.
• Candidate must absolutely be in sync with recent design standards and trends.
• Formal education in interaction design (Bachelor's/Master's/Diploma) is a definite plus.

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