Specialist Business Systems Analyst Tygervalley at Sanlam Group

Job Purpose

• As a Specialist Business Systems Analyst, you will play a critical role as a problem solver who assists in defining and enabling business change in an agile environment within the End-to-End Analysis Competency. Your primary responsibility is to define, design and manage business and system requirements for Glacier projects, as well as deliver solutions that are fit for purpose, that focus on efficiencies and deliver business value across all business and IT domains.

Key Outcomes
The following outcomes will be expected to be achieved by the Specialist Business Systems Analyst:

• Understanding business needs as they relate to a potential change or transformation.
• Building relationships with all key stakeholders including business owners, product owners,     development teams, trainers, and users.
• Acting as an advisor to the business on best outcomes for a particular business problem or initiative
• Facilitating of work-sessions, database design and solution workshops to gather information, elicit and finalise requirements. 
• Identifying, and documenting requirements in an easy understandable way.
• Produce data, activity models, component flow, functional decomposition and data flow diagrams using Enterprise Architect/Visio/Confluence.
• Document and implement best practices, standards, and guidelines to ensure that best solutions and design are implemented and consistent with group architecture principles. 
• Consider non-functional requirements that describe the characteristics of the system e.g., security, performance, maintainability, scalability, usability, and reliability of a product design.
• Presenting solutions in the form of walk-throughs to analyst, project managers, architects, development teams, developers, and testers to ensure understanding and assist delivery teams with story estimations and prioritization.
• Implementing, testing, and deploying solutions to business problems (includes facilitating and coordinating User Acceptance testing)
• Supporting business transition and helping to establish change (includes transfer of knowledge to users, trainers, and peers)
• Assist in the continuous development, improvement, and implementation of the analysis framework.
• Providing regular feedback to relevant stakeholders. 
• Post implementation support to business and IT.
• Working in an agile team within the scrum framework. 
• Mentoring and coaching of other business and systems analysts.

Qualifications and experience

• B.Com. B.Sc. in Information Technology or Informatics (Honors / Master’s degrees advantageous) 
• Relevant formal qualification in Business Analysis. E.g. Certification of Competency in Business Analysis (CCBA) or Advanced Diploma in Business Analysis (AdBA) 
• + 5 years Business Analysis experience 
• + 5 years Systems Analysis experience 
• + 5 years’ experience in Financial Services industry (LISP / Wealth / Asset management experience mandatory)
• Exposure to C# and SQL (DB2 and MsSQL) 
• Exposure to SQL stored procedures 
• Exposure to Digitization Design 
• Strong relational database expertise 3-5 years
• Demonstrated knowledge of object-oriented analysis and design
• Strong data analysis skills
• Strong Application Design expertise
• Exposure to SCRUM and other Agile methodologies 
• Understanding of mobile application design
• Understanding of API design
• Experience in design and support of web-based solutions (Advantageous)
• Demonstrated knowledge of domain driven design (Advantageous)
• 5 years Software development experience ((Advantageous)