Business Analyst (Junior) - Health Systems

Business Unit: Discovery Health

Function: Business Analysis

Date: 8 Jul 2025

Discovery Health Systems (DHS)

Business Analyst (Junior)

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 - Healthcare Digital Solutions

Working in a high performance organization that prides itself in attracting the finest talent, we challenge ourselves to find solutions that make a difference in the world. Our environment is always buzzing with energy as well as smart, self-motivated people working on finding the best way to move forward.

The Business Analyst (Junior) role in the Healthcare Digital Solutions team will work on innovative and dynamic new projects and product enhancements in order to improve business inefficiencies, gain competitive advantage on our products and to ultimately provide better service to our clients. Using knowledge of the organization’s technology infrastructure and specific software applications, the Business Analyst (Intermediate) will help the business to address changes through technology.

Key Purpose

The role will work to understand the overall business needs, define and document the requirements, using various approaches such as use cases and then decomposing the requirements to a sufficient level of detail allowing the implementation team to take action. The Business Analyst (Junior) will support the project throughout the project lifecycle and will manage the release as well as post release monitoring. The role also plays a key role in end-to-end testing of new functionality including UAT for business sign-off.

Areas of responsibility may include but not limited to:

The successful candidate will be required to perform but not limited to the following key outputs in respect of the Healthcare Digital Solutions portfolio:

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 and execute user acceptance or system testing
Resolve requirements conflict through effective stakeholder engagement
Identify and document project risks, issues, assumptions and dependencies
Identify and perform process improvement work
Perform quality assurance of business analysis deliverables

Competencies

The successful candidate must demonstrate the following competencies:

Self-starter who takes ownership, is accountable, and is able to work with minimal supervision
Results oriented with the ability to work under pressure and juggle multiple concurrent projects with changing priorities and deadlines
Strong analytical and problem solving skills
Able to deal with complexity and migrate between detailed and high level requirements.
Excellent written and verbal communication skills
Presentation and facilitation skills
Stress management skills
Strong stakeholder management skills
Project management skills
Requirements development skills
Change control skills
Release management skills
Solution development skills
Software Testing skills and experience

Education and Experience

BCom or BSc in Information Systems or Computer Science; or equivalent 3-year IT qualification
Minimum of 2+ years’ experience in a Business Analyst role
Experience with DBMS such as PL/SQL
Beneficial knowledge and experience of tools such as Enterprise Architect, XML, SOAP UI, Ms Visio and JIRA
Strong documentation skills in technical and architecture specifications
Process knowledge of SDLC, Unit testing, database structure design, technical change control
Unit testing and mocking frameworks
Experience with industry standard and governance protocols
Exposure to Agile methodology

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.