System Analyst

About the position

Our client in Sandton is urgently seeking a permanent  (hybrid) System Analyst. The ideal candidate will apply creative and structured thinking to design, document, and test solutions that meet business needs. This role involves close collaboration with team members to manage expectations, schedules, technical direction, and quality assurance. The successful candidate will facilitate and define system requirements based on business and UX needs, lead functional design workshops, and ensure alignment with architectural guidelines. A strong understanding of existing systems, security protocols, and data structures is essential to perform impact analysis and assess the feasibility of proposed solutions.
Qualifications and Experience:

• 4 year technology degree with distinction
• Technical software design and analysis
• SQL skills to design complex entity relationship diagrams and interrogate data
• Diagramming, modelling and data analysis tools
• Integration testing tools
• Knowledge and familiarity with common programming languages such as Python would be an advantage

Key responsibilities (not limited to):

• Facilitating and defining system requirements based on business and UX requirements, functional design workshops and in alignment with architectural guidelines
• Making use of technical problem-solving and communication skills as a central contribution to the continued successful delivery of your team
• Analysing system integrations and non-functional requirements, design and document interfaces and web services
• Applying your comprehensive knowledge of existing systems, security measures and data structures to perform impact analysis and determine the feasibility of the proposed solutions
• Performing logical system designs and defining logical data models
• Collaborating and liaising with cross-functional teams to implement changes
• Providing input into quality management plan
• Validating solutions by testing software changes and reviewing test packs
• Performing root cause analysis of system issues by referencing system logs, audit trails, data records and system code and logic
• Identifying and defining reporting methods, procedures and controls to improve monitoring and early detection of issues

Desired Skills:

• system analyst
• design
• test
• UX
• architect
• web services
• SQL