Systems Analyst at Sanlam Group

What will you do?

The Systems Analyst will play a critical role as a problem solver and person who assists in defining and enabling business change in agile environment. Their primary responsibility is to deliver solutions that are fit for purpose, that focus on efficiencies and that deliver business value. The incumbent will be expected to analyse business requirements using industry standard tools and methodologies and transforming them into systems specifications.

What will make you successful in this role?

The following outcomes will be expected to be achieved by the Systems Analyst:

• Performing detailed impact analysis including process, gap, and data analysis.
• Facilitation of work-sessions, database design and solution workshops to gather information, elicit and finalise functional requirements as well as transfer knowledge.
• Analyse how the business requirements will be met by introducing changes to the application/s or creating modern technology implementations.
• Examine existing systems to identify areas for improvement and integration. As part of the solution design, consider non-functional requirements that describe the characteristics of the system e.g., security, performance, maintainability, scalability, usability, and reliability of a product.
• Ensure system designs are aligned with business goals & requirements and ensuring that requirements are accurate and complete.
• Collaborate with developers and testers during sprints to ensure that system changes are implemented correctly, in an agile team within a scrum framework.
• Presenting solutions in the form of walk-throughs to analysts, project managers, architects, development teams, developers, and testers to ensure understanding and assist delivery teams with story estimations and prioritisation.
• Produce fit-for-purpose specifications documenting the solution.
• Produce data models, activity, component flow, functional decomposition and data flow diagrams using Enterprise Architect / Visio / Confluence.
• Document and implement, and guidelines to ensure that best solutions and designs are implemented and consistent with group architecture principals. 
• Ensure that all stakeholders are engaged and kept up to date.
• Post implementation support to business and IT.
• Assist with business support and handling queries / errors related to production systems.

Qualifications and experience

• Relevant formal qualification / experience in systems analysis
• B. Com, B.Sc. in Information Technology or Informatics would be preferable
• +5 years Systems Analysis experience
• 3 – 5 Years’ experience in the Investment industry
• Experience in design and support workflow solutions 
• Exposure to C#, XML, JSON, SOA
• Experience in Metastorm Business process Management (BPM) experience 
• Experience analysing operational needs to design, automate, publish, test, monitor and report on business workflows in Metastorm Designer
• 3 - 5 years Software development experience would be advantageous
• Strong relational database expertise 3 - 5 years
• Experience in SQL stored procedures essential
• Demonstrated knowledge of object-oriented analysis and design
• Strong data analysis skills
• Strong Application Design expertise
• Exposure to SCRUM essential and other Agile methodologies advantageous
• Ability to work closely with all stakeholders to design and deliver solutions

Qualification and Experience

• Degree or Diploma and the required Certification with 6 to 8 years related experience.

Knowledge and Skills

• Component level design based on Technology Architecture Model
• System analysis
• System and Database design
• System Testing
• Security and performance assessments

Closing Date: 6th, May 2022