Senior System Analyst: Design & Integrate Scalable Systems

PBT Group; Johannesburg; On-site; ZAR 600,000 - 900,000; Part time

Job summary

PBT Group is seeking an experienced System Analyst to join a dynamic delivery team on a contract basis in Johannesburg, South Africa. You will bridge business requirements with technology, analyze complex problems, and produce high-quality technical documentation to enable successful solution delivery.

The role involves engaging stakeholders, designing scalable system solutions, and collaborating with architects, developers and testers in a fast-paced enterprise environment.

Qualifications

• Relevant degree or diploma in IT, CS, IS or related field.
• Minimum 5 years' experience as System Analyst or Technical Business Analyst.
• Proven experience producing detailed functional and technical documentation.
• Strong understanding of enterprise systems and system integration.
• Experience in Agile and/or Waterfall delivery environments.
• Banking or Financial Services experience is advantageous.

Responsibilities

• Engage with business stakeholders to understand, analyse and document requirements.
• Translate business needs into detailed functional and technical solution designs.
• Facilitate workshops and requirements gathering sessions.
• Identify solution options and recommend the most appropriate approach.
• Ensure proposed solutions align with enterprise architecture and business objectives.
• Produce comprehensive functional and technical specifications.
• Develop UML artefacts including use case, sequence, activity and context diagrams.
• Design system integrations and interface specifications.
• Define API contracts and system interactions.
• Collaborate with Architects and Development teams to ensure solution feasibility.
• Analyse and document system integrations across multiple platforms.
• Work with RESTful and SOAP-based services.
• Define message structures using JSON and XML.
• Analyse queue-based and batch processing solutions.
• Support API integration design and troubleshooting.
• Work closely with Developers, Test Analysts, Product Owners and Business Analysts throughout the SDLC.
• Support solution clarification during development and testing.
• Assist with defect analysis and production support where required.
• Ensure solution documentation remains accurate and up to date.

Skills

Systems Analysis

Solution Design

Functional Specifications

Technical Specifications

UML Modelling

Sequence Diagrams

Context Diagrams

SQL

API Analysis

REST Services

SOAP Services

JSON

XML

Queue-based Integration

Batch Processing

Education

Relevant Degree or Diploma in IT/CS/IS

Tools

Swagger/OpenAPI

Postman

Azure DevOps

Jira

Confluence

BPMN

Enterprise Architecture frameworks

Job description

PBT Group is seeking an experienced System Analyst to join a dynamic delivery team on a contract basis in Johannesburg, South Africa. You will bridge business requirements with technology, analyze complex problems, and produce high-quality technical documentation to enable successful solution delivery.

The role involves engaging stakeholders, designing scalable system solutions, and collaborating with architects, developers and testers in a fast-paced enterprise environment.