Systems Analyst at Sanlam Group

What will you do?

Responsible for the development of a systems architecture that describes the complete set of components and interfaces that make up IS application solutions to specified business requirements in a large, complex organisation. The specification, product selection and design of infrastructure components to implement a systems architecture. The identification of new and emerging software technologies, methodologies and products, and ICT methods and techniques and the ongoing assessment of their relevance and potential value to the organisation.

• Ensures that expected application performance levels are achieved and proactively identifies areas for improvement.
• Investigate, analyze, and resolve complex technical problems. Identifies and manages interfaces, service levels, standards, and configurations. Responds with urgency to incidents and service requests.
• Support delivery team with deployment, maintenance, and troubleshooting of core business applications, including application servers, associated hardware, endpoints, and databases
• Develop, analyze, prioritize, and organize technical requirement specifications, data mapping, diagrams, and flowcharts for developers and testers to follow
• Develop technical specification following on best practices for scalability, supportability, ease of maintenance, and system performance 

Solution Design & Technical Specifications

• Translate business requirements into an integrated system vision & detailed systems requirement. Detailed system requirements must include all capabilities, interfaces and functionalities within and across technologies.
• Facilitate processes to ensure integrated requirements are socialized, understood & approved across the broad range of stakeholders to be impacted (this includes various processes e.g. risk / governance forums, change council, scrum meetings / DevOps team capability building, solution design sessions etc.)
• Work collaboratively with project / program teams, squads, scrum masters and engineers to define backlog, release & DevOps / project planning implications of the requirements development & roadmap (what should happen when)
• Work as part of the technical teams to continuously improve system requirements mapping e.g. leverage input from questions asked etc. to consistently improve the quality of the requirements analysis for easier interpretation by the development teams
• Provide input & or lead the development / improvement of organization wide process design approaches, templates & modelling tools.

Solution Delivery & Testing (manual)

• Provide inputs to the manual testing strategy & test cases for various solutions, as and when required
• Review & monitor system stability, resilience throughout the testing process considering integration & production environments
• Provide support during user acceptance testing

What will make you successful in this role?

Qualifications and Experience

• Bachelor's degree in computer science or information technology, or equivalent experience
• 4-6 years’ experience working with information technologies and systems analysis
• Strong experience with integration technology stacks and cloud solutions
• Strong computer, hardware, software, and analytical skills
• Enabling technologies and trends e.g. Microservices, ECM, BPM, BRM, ESB & BI
• Proven ability to assess business needs and translate them into relevant solutions
• Strong understanding and knowledge of the principles and practices associated with database maintenance and administration
• Experience installing, configuring, documenting, testing, training, and implementing new applications and systems
• Working knowledge of a wide variety of programming languages
• Excellent analytical skill

Knowledge and Skills

• Technical specifications
• Analysis and design of systems and components
• Business Requirements Definition
• technologies