Systems Analyst

**Business Unit**:Vitality Life**Function**:Java Development**Date**:1 Nov 2024- Discovery - Vitality Life- System Analyst - Data/Corp Systems**About Discovery**
- Discovery’s core purpose is to make people healthier and to enhance and protect their lives. We seek out and invest in exceptional individuals who understand and support our core purpose, and whose own values align with those of Discovery. Our fast-paced and dynamic environment enables smart, self-driven people to be their best. As global thought leaders, Discovery is passionate about innovating in order to not only achieve financial success, but to ignite positive and meaningful change within our society.
- **About Vitality Life**
- Working in a high-performance organization that prides itself on attracting the finest talent, we constantly strive to develop data-driven solutions that make a meaningful impact. Our environment is always buzzing with energy, with intelligent, motivated people collaborating to move the company forward through innovative data systems. A Systems Analyst position is available within the Data/Corporate team to support dynamic projects and enhancements that drive our data strategy. This role will focus on analyzing complex data requirements, designing scalable systems, and ensuring efficient integration of corporate data solutions to enhance overall business performance.**Key Purpose**
- Our Software Engineers play a critical role in Vitality’s successful business model by building and maintaining software solutions, in line with quality and time parameters, to enable operation as a fully integrated composite business, offering brilliant products with seamless, intuitive customer journeys.
The System Analyst leads and plans development across large or multiple teams, providing expertise in many technical areas or specialisms with very deep knowledge in a particular technical area. They are fully competent in two specialisms and are working towards competency in a third specialism. This role is required to influence both internally and externally with 3rd parties based on Vitality standards and governance.**Areas of responsibility may include but not limited to**:

- **Implement the software development life cycle**: build, maintain, test, deliver, release and document user-friendly and customer centric software solutions, as required.
- leads on and solves large, complicated problems and ensures route cause analysis and recommendations are made.
- fully comprehends appropriate architectural patterns and designs that address the scope of the business problems and coaches these to others.
- takes ownership of releases and ensures their success.
- takes accountability for the successful technical operation of the systems they own.
- is familiar with both architectural and design patterns.
- employs design principles into their deliveries.
- knowledgeable and engaged with current technology design updates.
- actively participates and enforces peer reviews, providing insightful observations and guidance, addressing design, supportability or practical problems in a clear and respectful manner.
- produces documentation that exemplifies the quality requirements to all other engineers.
- takes the lead on developing process and standards improvements.
- Provide input into the development of new standards and documentation improvements plus develop and/or write inhouse standards as well as standards for third party tools.
- Actively keep up to date with industry standards and ensure in-house standards are aligned with industry standards.
- Review and sign off on new standards to ensure they are in line with the Vitality way of working and current leading practice.
- **Provide integrated solutions**: ensure solutions are user-focused, strategically aligned and effectively integrated across multiple teams and platforms to ensure the business needs are met.
- Coordinate build activities across systems and undertake and support integration testing activities.
- Responsible for assuring that software changes and/or enhancements are in line with the overall architecture and ensure that low level designs or integrated solutions meet the definition of “ready”.
- Work within and across teams to ensure seamless integration and get actively involved in complex trouble shooting if/when things go wrong.
- Contribute to design, taking into account information security and performance, to ensure that integration works, influencing planning and the management team to understand the impact on the delivery process.
- **Engage stakeholders**: Collaborate, work with and develop an understanding of the needs and requirements of both internal and external stakeholders in order to achieve the desired outcomes.
- Working with senior management, internal stakeholders and 3rd parties to understand the business requirements and technology design, discuss and agree product launch requirements and ensure integration across multiple journeys.
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