System Designer II (Contract)

The Focus Group; Sandton; On-site; ZAR 500,000 - 800,000; Full time

Job summary

The Focus Group in Sandton, South Africa, is looking for a professional to translate business and user requirements into detailed system designs. This role requires technical leadership and a collaborative approach with stakeholders to ensure quality outcomes.

Key responsibilities include ensuring compliance with architectural standards and conducting thorough impact analysis for new solutions. The ideal candidate will possess strong problem-solving skills and a deep understanding of systems analysis and design.

Responsibilities

• Translate business requirements into system design.
• Understand system landscape and governance for effective requirements.
• Provide asset-level requirements based on stakeholder analysis.
• Conduct impact analysis for system enhancements or innovations.
• Ensure quality in designs and input into testing plans.

Job description

To translate business, other stakeholder requirements and user stories into system requirement and act as a link between business analyst, other requirements stakeholders and the software team. To translate overarching end to end design into detailed designs and provide technical leadership to the software developers and other designers. Contributes to growing\\evolving the Design discipline to keep abreast with best practices to enable company technology strategy.

Job Responsibilities

• Ensure an understanding of system requirements and end to end design to produce the detail design
• Ensure understanding of system landscape, standards, legislation and governance to provide effective technical requirements
• Provide asset(grouping) level requirements based on analysis in terms of business and stakeholder requirements
• Understand existing and new technology /domain in detail in order to provide effective designs
• Understand the operational environment and impact of design on the specific environment
• Accountable to analyze and produce detailed Designs as per the requirements received
• Understand existing and required data in order to Support the domain
• Provide input into test plans and cases on a system level
• Provide or Build on Existing System Use Cases(optional) and sequence, Class, System Flow, Activity, Component diagrams
• Produce Designs that Realize the strategic direction / architecture of the organization to the best of their ability, based on the end-to-end solutions and technology road map
• Collaborate with the key impacted stakeholders
• Evaluate options for risk alternatives and make recommendations to minimize risk to the organization
• Identify and develop mitigation plans for dependency and system conflicts
• Conduct impact analysis for system\\application enhancements or new Innovation
• Understand, interpret and review
• End to End Solution Design
• Ensure the delivery of quality minded designs including input to (EQA review) for quality testing
• Contribute to integration test packs
• Conduct Trouble shooting sessions and assisting developer with queries
• Collaborate effectively with all key project stakeholders
• Update the asset knowledge base (Technical documentation, Lessons learned, training documentation etc.)
• Ensure work product or design enables architect target state fulfilment
• Support the achievement of the business strategy, objectives and values
• Stay abreast of developments in field of expertise of systems analysis and design
• Ensure personal growth and enable effectiveness in performance of roles and responsibilities
• Contribute to the organization Culture building initiatives (e.g. staff surveys etc.).
• Participate and support corporate responsibility initiatives for the achievement of business strategy
• Seek opportunities to improve business processes, models and systems though agile thinking.
• Conduct self development both by mentoring developers and designers and being mentored
• Contributes to growing\\evolving the design discipline to keep abreast with best practices and to enable company technology strategy.

Exposure

• Proven application of creative and innovative skills
• Senior Developer Experience
• Trouble shooting Experience
• Technical leadership
• Operational Experience in Technology/ product
• Credibility in organisation
• Working with various groups to identify alternative solutions to a problem (JAD)
• Managing conflict situations
• Sharing information in different ways to increase stakeholders understanding
• Requirements/ Systems analysis experience
• Architectural thinking
• Senior Developer Experience
• Strong technical acumen on how the technical landscape fits together
• Broad understanding of end to end landscape, specialisation in one or more domains
• Experience in end to end requirements traceability