Business Analyst

Discovery – Group Information Services

Business Analyst – Interactive Messaging

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 Interactive Messaging

Interactive Messaging enables the creation, distribution, receipting, storage and retrieval of all outbound communications (triggered, bulk), across various channels for businesses in the Discovery Group (Discovery Life, Invest, Health, Insure, Card, Vitality RSA, Vitality Life UK, and The Vitality Group USA), as well as the workflow routing of all inbound communications to the Discovery Group.

We are a service focused team that has a drive to solve problems with urgency, and meet the needs of our clients to the best of our ability. We are looking for smart, energetic, experienced and dynamic achievers who take initiative and ownership, and who thrive on constant challenges and high-speed change to join us on this journey. If you have an entrepreneurial mind and appreciate calculated risks, then the Discovery environment will liberate you to realise your full potential.

Key Purpose

Understanding the technical 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 technical requirements. Interfacing between the Systems Architect, client (where relevant) and the development team with regards to the technical, business and functional requirements. Ensuring that the technical and/or the business requirements are delivered in the implemented solution. Working with multiple systems and business areas and multiple teams that require deep integration of solutions. Building and maintaining strong relationships with clients, and acting as consultant on the application.

Areas of responsibility may include but not limited to:

Business Case

• Assist the Systems Architect and/or business to articulate the benefits they wish to realize with the solution. Facilitating the development of a Technical Design or Business Case.

Agile Methodology

• Design and validate the functional solution using Agile Methodology.
• This involves interpreting the product / technical requirements into Agile Epics and Stories
• Plan Agile Sprints and Stories for the Sprint
• Apply knowledge of the system, interfaces and dependencies to highlight integration aspects that must be considered.
• Identify a set of stakeholders that need to be involved in creating and validating the Agile Story Board by interview business and technical owners, as well as experienced members of the development team (Development Manager, Architect, Snr BA).
• Design a set of test cases/scripts, test scenario's and test data sets to accompany the Agile Story Board
• Validate the Agile Epics and Test Basket with the identified stakeholders and obtain sign-off.

Release Notes & Training Material

• Update and publish release notes related to the current system changes implemented, and notify impacted parties. Maintain and update the Agile Story Board (Epics and Stories) with any added content.

Personal Attributes and Skills

Behavioral Skills

• Ability to handle high pressured situations
• Ability to manage expectations
• Strong problem solving skills
• Attention to detail and tenacity
• Time management and prioritization
• Creativeness
• Learning orientation
• Negotiation skills
• Innovation

Technical Skills

• Agile Methodology
• Project Management
• SQL queries
• Business Writing Skills
• Presentation and Facilitation Skills
• Solution Architecture
• Process Mapping
• Entity Diagram mapping
• Software testing pack design, functional testing

Education and Experience

Minimum

• Informatics or other relevant degree
• 3 year Business Analyst experience
• Agile Methodology Certification

Advantageous

• 1 year User Interface analyst experience
• 1 year Software Development experience
• Honours degree

Methodologies

• Agile Methodology

Tools

• Enterprise architect
• Visio
• SoapUI (SOAP) / REST client (JSON)
• Atlassian tool suite (Jira, Confluence)

Processes

• ITIL (Incident, Release, Problem Management)

Technologies

• SQL (Oracle and IBM Netezza)
• UML
• XML
• JSON

Other

• Software architecture
• JAD sessions
• Data modelling techniques

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.