Technical analyst

SUMMARY:
Role Purpose:

• The technical Analyst will work closely with business analysts and support development by doing system analysis on incidents, problems, and IT projects

POSITION INFO:
Knowledge and Experience:

• A deep understanding of investment and life products
• A deep understanding of South African Investment Platforms and platform operations
• An understanding of financial sector regulation as it relates to investment platforms
• Experience in implementing non-functional requirements such as Performance monitoring, Security, and Scalability, and related tools
• Experience doing Front End systems(web) analysis
• Exposure to COBIT, ITIL, or related frameworks will be beneficial
• Exposure to data analysis, SQL, BI tools, and reporting
• Understanding or experience in creating systems for Financial Advisers
• Experience in building successful relationships and working collaboratively across departmental teams and third-party vendors
• Experience working in a fast-paced, proactive, and delivery-focused environment
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Computer Literacy, with MS Excel at least at an intermediate level
• JIRA and Confluence experience an advantage
• Whether you have grown a career as a software developer/engineer and you are looking to shift into technical analysis and requirements elicitation, or are currently a technical analyst and looking to grow in the FinTech space, this is the ideal opportunity

• Facilitate development for technical requirements using a relevant framework and tools
• Analysis of functional and non-functional system requirements, including as-is and to-be analysis, impact analysis of changes required to existing systems and processes
• Understand application, data, and enterprise architecture
• Critically evaluate information gathered from multiple sources, reconcile information conflicts, break down high-level information into its constituent details, and abstract up from low-level information to a general understanding
• Technical analysis of business applications, including application APIs, servers, associated endpoints, and databases
• Creation and management of technical documentation, including integration requirements and data flows
• Consult and co-ordinate extensively with key stakeholders across Business, IT teams, and Vendors
• Consult and support Test Analysts with requirements and testing strategies
• Facilitate data mapping exercises through investigating service calls, using tools such as SOAPUI/Postman
• Functional testing of the solution in line with the business requirements
• Facilitating the deployment process and release management
• Triaging of defects and fixes
• The ideal candidate needs to have proven experience in contributing technically to software development projects (as a technical lead or as a technical analyst)

• Relevant degree in Commerce, Computer science, Statistics, Engineering, Investment Management, or related fields
• Business / System Analysis certification/qualification is an advantage
• Software development background is a distinct advantage