Senior Systems Analyst

7 days ago


Cape Town, South Africa Salt Full time

Exciting new opportunity available for a Senior Systems Analyst, this a Hybrid position which allows you to work from either my clients Cape Town or Durban office.

**About The Role**:
The Senior Systems Analyst works with current systems, designs new systems, and enhances the legacy environment.

You will need to be proactive, should be able to communicate with both business and technical stakeholders, and be able to adapt to different technology stacks.

This role has a strong focus on system interoperability and requires a person with extensive knowledge and experience in system integration design and documentation, using recognized international standards.

**Experience & Skills**:

- 3 -5 years or more proven work experience as a system analyst/developer or related function in a relevant domain
- Degree or recognized qualification in Informatics (Software Development or System Analysis)
- Agile software development methodologies
- Clearly articulate and document business processes, user and functional requirements
- Produce a Business and User Requirements Specification
- Obtain key inputs from architecture and technical teams to identify solution interdependencies
- Document the technical specifications in collaboration with the technical team
- Produce the Technical Systems Specification
- Collaborate with Architects on solution design and support the Architect/Technical lead during architectural discussions
- Collaborate with Data Analysts on Data analysis
- Support the development of Quality Assurance (QA) testing strategies
- Communicate business requirements to the technical team
- Translate the business requirements into user stories (in JIRA) for hand over to the development team. These user stories must include acceptance criteria
- Perform functional testing
- Support the User Acceptance Testing Process
- Provide input to Training and User documentation
- Provide input to System and User Support
- Provide input to project plans and resourcing plans
- Provide input to implementation activities
- Design appropriate training courses
- Develop training materials
- Conduct end user training and assessment
- Conduct train-the-trainer sessions
- Writing and implementing efficient code as required by the Lead Analyst
- Collaborate with Developers by determining operational practicality
- Developing quality assurance procedures as identified by the Lead Analyst
- Deploying software tools, processes, and metrics as identified by the Lead Analyst
- Maintaining and upgrading existing systems as identified by the Lead Analyst

**Beneficial skills & Experience**
- SQL
- Software Development experience
- Web-based technologies
- RESTful interactions
- Postman - Defining JSON payloads, creating message requests, scripting variables into the payload etc.
- Data modelling using PlantUML
- QA Automated Testing

**Advantageous Skills**
- Ability to liaise both with stakeholders and internal business, technical and implementer teams
- Strong background in digital health (advantageous)
- Experience with planning and product delivery management software such as JIRA (advantageous)
- Experience working in the public health sector (advantageous)

Salt is acting as an Employment Agency in relation to this vacancy.

**Job Information**:

- Job Reference: JO-2401-340973- Salary:
- Salary per: annum- Job Duration:
- Job Start Date: ASAP- Job Industries: Technology- Job Locations: Cape Town- Job Types: Permanent- Job Skills: Jira, JSON, Postman, QA Automated Testing, Restful, Software Development, SQL



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