Job Description

Who are we?

Sanlam Group Technology is responsible for the provision of a digitally enabled technology service as a group COE, drive business and transformation and provide group-wide digital and data architecture. We operate the various technology platforms and shared services, ensure Cyber and Information Security resilience, and act as technology governance and risk orchestrator for technology across Sanlam.

What will you do?

The BI Systems Analyst is responsible for enabling change in the organization by defining needs and recommending solutions that deliver value to stakeholders.

As a member of the BI & Analytics platform team, the successful candidate will analyze, design and enable processes and solutions aimed at improving flow of value across delivery streams leveraging data platform capabilities.

What will make you successful in this role?

To interpret business and technical requirements and translate into the needed system designs to enable the development of innovative, flexible and efficient solutions to a business problem. Delivery of exceptional service that exceeds customers' expectations through proactive, innovative and appropriate solutions by resolving requests quickly and effectively.

Analysis

• Systems and data analysis of business value stream and/or platform requirements.
• Document and maintain the set of system, functional and/or technical requirements together with the associated rationale, effort, decisions, dependencies and assumptions.
• Development of technical specifications for product and process requirements, including integration mapping.
• Manage traceability between the system requirements and derived artifacts including system models to the relevant detail.
• Creation of the needed system designs as required, including but not limited to logical system design, Logical Data Models, high level and /or conceptual

solution designs, UI prototypes, end user and reports.

• Identification of potential risks/issues and give input to risk mitigation plan.
• Scoping and estimation.
• Ensure adequate tests are performed for all configuration and development tasks and ensure results are successful. Ensure testing yields an

acceptable level of performance for the changes being delivered and the systems is not adversely affected.

• Continuously assess own performance, seek timely and clear feedback and request training where appropriate.

Stakeholder Engagement

• Cultivate and manage objective working relationships with a variety of stakeholders, including end-users, SME's, project managers and senior staff

members by providing input to validate business requirements.

• Liaise and communicate the system requirements to the necessary audiences e.g. testers, developers, business analysts, infrastructure,

production support, systems analyst (other areas of the business), etc.

• Advise and enable platform and delivery workstreams data development and release pipeline.

Coaching/Mentorship

• Coaching and mentoring of junior analysts.
• Participate and contribute to a development culture where information regarding successes, issues, trends and ideas are actively shared.
• Provides problem solving assistance to other team members.
• Coach and assist junior team members.

DataOps

• Defining and supporting the workspace process and technologies that others use to source, transform and manifest BI platform solutions.
• Definition of, enablement and optimisation of effective data engineering and release processes, practices and tooling.
• Enablement of a high-performance data analytics team that rapidly produces new analytics and flexibly responds to marketplace demands

while maintaining impeccable quality.

• Establishment and optimisation of environment and processes through which the delivery teams build the data products, including the monitoring of

data pipelines and infrastructure as well as the governance of the data engineering practices

Qualification

Matric
Diploma/Bachelor Degree (Information Systems; Statistics; Data or Computer Science; Engineering) or equivalent (preferred but not essential)
Qualifications related to business and systems analysis preferred

Experience

2-5 years of experience in planning and management of business and/or system analysis activities through delivery
2-5 years of experience in a complex Data and or BI environment preferred
Strong stakeholder management experience
Experience in leading complex projects
Experience in agile development desired
Experience of working in the technology/ digital industry (or similar)
Business experience in financial services would be advantageous

Skills and knowledge

Ability to translate business requirements into non-technical terms
Self-starter with the ability to work in a fast-paced, agile environment
Excellent interpersonal, influencing and decision-making skills
Excellent presentation and facilitation skills
Strong analytical-thinking and problem-solving abilities
Ability to collect, organize, analyze, and disseminate significant amounts of information
Attention to detail and accuracy

Personal Attributes

Decision quality - Contributing through others

Communicates effectively - Contributing through others

Balances stakeholders - Contributing through others

Business insight - Contributing through others

Manages ambiguity - Contributing through others

Nimble learning - Contributing through others

Build a successful career with us

We're all about building strong, lasting relationships with our employees. We know that you have hopes for your future - your career, your personal development and of achieving great things. We pride ourselves in helping our employees to realise their worth. Through its four business clusters - Sanlam Life and Savings, Sanlam Investment Group, Sanlam Emerging Markets, Santam, as well as MiWay and the Group Office - the group provides many opportunities for growth and development.

Core Competencies

Cultivates innovation - Contributing through others

Customer focus - Contributing through others

Drives results - Contributing through others

Collaborates - Contributing through others

Being resilient - Contributing through others

Turnaround time

The shortlisting process will only start once the application due date has been reached. The time taken to complete this process will depend on how far you progress and the availability of managers.

Our commitment to transformation

The Sanlam Group is committed to achieving transformation and embraces diversity. This commitment is what drives us to achieve a diverse, inclusive and equitable workplace as we believe that these are key components to ensuring a thriving and sustainable business in South Africa. The Group's Employment Equity plan and targets will be considered as part of the selection process.

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