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Business Analyst (Junior) - Health Systems

Business Unit:  Discovery Health
Function:  Business Analysis
Date:  26 Apr 2024

Discovery Health Systems (DHS) 

 

Business Analyst (Junior) - Enterprise Architecture Team

  

  

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 Discovery Health Systems (DHS)  

  

The Discovery Health Systems (DHS) is a world class software development house that enables the Discovery Health Business to use digital transformation as a competitive advantage. It focuses on rapid quality software delivery. Innovation and excellence are key attributes to all our initiatives. The skills and expertise in the team allows a diverse product development on all strategic, tactical, and operational changes. Our environment is fast-paced and demands energy, drive, enthusiasm, ownership, and creativity, but it rewards with an extremely fulfilling and stimulating environment that actively supports career growth and development. 

 

Key Purpose  

Understanding the business requirements, and through a structured process documenting, validating and translating it into functional specifications that are used by developers to craft a technical solution. Testing and validating the functionality of the technical solution against the business requirements. Interfacing between the business client and the development team with regards to the business and functional requirements. Ensuring that the business requirements are delivered in the implemented solution.

Areas of responsibility may include but not limited to:  

The junior business analyst must be able to demonstrate that they can:

  • run a requirements gathering/JAD workshop to gather new requirements
  • document business requirement specifications under supervision of a Senior BA
  • accurately document functional requirements specifications clearly defining project objectives
  • construct complex process models and can create UML models
  • execute user acceptance or system testing
  • resolve requirements conflict through effective stakeholder engagement
  • present options and recommendations to stakeholders
  • offer support and guidance to junior business analysts
  • identify and document project risks, issues, assumptions and dependencies
  • identify and perform process improvement work
  • perform quality assurance of business analysis deliverables
  • Within 6 months of being in the position, an intermediate business analyst should be able to demonstrate strong domain knowledge in relation to the environment that they work in.

 

 Education and Experience

  • Knowledge
  • Processes
  • Project management
  • Requirements development
  • Change control
  • Release management
  • Solution Development
  • Software Testing

 

Technologies Required:

  • PL/SQL
  • Microsoft Visio
  • Microsoft Word and Excel
  • Advantageous:
  • Enterprise Architect
  • XML
  • Soap UI
  • Jira

Skills

  • Competent PL/SQL queries
  • Analytical thinking
  • Personal organisation and time management skills
  • Business writing skills
  • Presentation and facilitation skills
  • Communication skills (written, verbal/presenting, and listening)
  • Stress management skills
  • Negotiation skills

Behavioural Characteristics

  • Customer focused
  • Results oriented
  • Able to resolve conflict
  • Creative
  • Innovative
  • Self-driven
  • Attention to detail
  • Ability to build relationships with people from all different backgrounds and at different job   levels

Competencies  

The successful candidate must demonstrate a competent understanding of:

 

  • The system development life cycle and can explain the importance of the BA role in each stage.
  • The distinction between business, functional and non-functional requirements
  • The differences between business requirements and business rules
  • The role of a BA in supporting delivery of requirements from a technical and business perspective
  • One or more project approaches such as Waterfall and Agile
  • The principles of system and user acceptance testing and the link to requirements documentation
  • Principles of project risks, issues, assumptions, and dependencies
  • Stakeholder management, ensuring a common understanding amongst stakeholders and managing expectations
  • Effective communication with various stakeholders (including inter-company)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Education and Experience:

  • Relevant tertiary qualification/Informatics/Computer Science degree Advantageous:
  • Honours degree
  • UML course
  • BPMN Course

Minimum Required Experience:

  • At least 1-2  years’ experience as a Business Analyst
  • Testing
  • Process mapping
  • UML modelling
  • Requirements analysis

EMPLOYMENT EQUITY   
                             
The Company’s approved Employment Equity Plan and Targets will be considered as part of the recruitment process. As an Equal Opportunities employer, we actively encourage and welcome people with various disabilities to apply.

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