Job Description

Business Analyst (Data Management) IT
Gauteng - South Africa

Are you a skilled Data Management Business Analyst with a passion for leveraging cutting-edge technologies such as Data Science, Machine Learning, and Artificial Intelligence to drive business success? We are seeking a highly motivated individual to join our dynamic team. If you have a proven track record in SQL, Python, AWS, data mining, predictive modeling, and thrive in an Agile environment, we want to hear from you!

Responsibilities and work outputs

• Own business, system, and data analysis, determine business system and data requirements and identify alternatives.
• Set up and facilitate workshops with stakeholders to gather, elicit, and identify business and system requirements.
• Design and document innovative business and analytical solutions using information technology.
• Considering data practices and governance.
• Translate business requirements to a level of detail appropriate for implementation using user journeys, user stories with acceptance criteria; process diagrams; data models; business rules, and mockups).
• Develop, document, and implement data control standards and best practices for all data analysts and testers and coach these analysts and testers to ensure that these standards are upheld.
• Advocate and adhere to data analysis and testing best practices.
• Support data analysts and testers with analysing and testing any new data products that are required.
• Develop, implement, and own the maintenance of templates for data analysis to be used by data analysts and testers as part of federated teams.
• Actively contribute to the design of data products.
• Provide support, collaborate, and coach parties across the data platform for the corporation.
• Assist data teams to understand the business requirements.
• Assisting in defining technical solutions, business and technical processes and calculations with the relevant teams.
• Participate and provide input into the design and functional discussion with the technical designers.
• Assist and sign off the test cases for functional and non-functional, integration and testing activities.
• Own, Investigate, identify, and document business requirements to address process or system constraints resulting in repeated queries or errors to optimise operational processes across the data platform
• Investigate, identify and document business requirements to create reports relevant to data projects within the capability.
• Train the trainers and enable the creation of Process and training documentation.
• Work with internal stakeholders to define the client experience by turning client data and experiences into intelligence and build solutions aligned with the client needs.
• Drive, determine and define the user experience and interactions your stakeholders have with data products and services.
• Articulate and advocate the users needs while ensuring the business objectives are met.
• Conduct user research, design and document, validate/test with user and sell/present the design solution to the business.
• Ensure effective and consistent service delivery and support to both internal and external clients aligned with the MMH values

Technical Competencies Required

• At least 4 years Data management and reporting experience.
• Data Integration skills.
• Understanding of Data Integrity validation and data testing methodologies.
• Understand the data mesh framework.
• Intermediate understanding of analytics coding languages: Python, R, Java

Qualifications, Experience and Knowledge

• BCom Informatics or BSC Degree.
• Diploma in Business Analysis preferred.
• A minimum of 8 years experience as a Business Analyst.
• A minimum of 4 years experience in the investment environment.
• 5+ years experience in advanced analytics (data mining, predictive modelling), and/or
• 5+ years in data science, machine learning (ML) and artificial intelligence (AI)
• Must have experience working in an Agile working environment.
• SQL knowledge a must.
• Python.
• 3 years AWS experience.

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