Business Analyst (Senior)

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 Invest

Launched in 2007, Discovery Invest offers the full range of investment products for any client need, providing access to our top performing range of Discovery funds as well as a wide selection of leading local and international fund managers. Recently, Discovery Invest launched a unique offshore offering to enable South African investors unparalleled ease in accessing international investment opportunities. Discovery Invest is seeking to leverage the shared-value model to promote financial health and freedom for millions of South Africans. Through unique behavioural incentives and benefits, we reward clients for positive investment behaviour with extra investment returns. Discovery Invest is the only shared value investment platform in the country maximizing client outcomes before and after retirement. It is important for our employees to provide world class service to our internal and external clients, thereby ensuring long and sustainable relationships.

Key Purpose

The integration analyst is responsible for ensuring that data transfers and flows among the various systems within the Discovery ecosystem seamlessly integrate with one another. Through the process of collecting, analysing and documenting integration requirements, that are aligned to architectural principles, the analyst will ensure robust solutions are formulated to meet the needs of all stakeholders.

Objectives of this role

• Document requirements: Ensure that all requirements are documented, as well as ensure that all artifacts are maintained and complete at all times.
• Data integrity and quality assurance: perform data mappings to ensure maintenance of data quality and integrity
• Monitor failures: Ensure that all solutions have monitoring in place to effectively identify failures so these can be resolved promptly thus ensuring optimal system performance
• Automate manual processes: Identity opportunities to automate manual processes and recommend improvements to enhance system interoperability
• Optimize Processes: Continuously monitor and analyze data to identify opportunities for improvement and efficiency.

Responsibilities

• Understand the data pipeline process throughout the ecosystem as well as the various data sources that exist
• Develop solutions that are aligned with architectural principles
• Ensure the data is accurate and free from errors by removing duplicates, correcting errors, and dealing with missing values.
• Monitor the integration processes continuously to identify errors and issues so these can be resolved timeously
• Collaborate with data analysts on a continuous basis to understand changes within the data landscape
• Be proactive in identifying opportunities for enhancement, optimisation and efficiency within the environment
• Social solutions with all impacted stakeholders to ensure awareness of the change is well understood
• Contribute to enhancing the integration architecture principles for the environment.

Education and Experience

• Bachelor's degree in IT or Quantitative fields or related fields
• Postgraduate degree (simply an advantageous)
• 5 to 8 years integration analyst experience

Preferred skills and competencies

• Documentation using Confluence/Wiki
• Strong communicator verbally and in writing
• Expert database knowledge in SQL
• Experience working on large and complex datasets.
• Advanced knowledge of XML and Json structures
• Advanced knowledge of batch processing
• Strong problem-solving skills
• Understanding data quality and data governance concepts
• Self-management of tasks and deliverables
• Prior leadership experience
• Change Management experience
• Engagement with Senior stakeholders 

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.