Discovery Limited Business Architect Jobs in South Africa

Discovery Limited Business Architect Jobs in South Africa


Key purpose

  • The Distribution Technology team is looking for a Business Architect to assist in defining and designing the technology ecosystem for financial advisers.

    The successful candidate must have a:

  • Good understanding of business and technology

  • Deep knowledge on the adviser customer Journey, customer segmentation, propensity scoring, targeting and campaign management aimed at supporting financial advisers.

  • Strong design thinking and UX experience.

  • Sound understanding of database concepts, and customer data modelling

  • The Business Architect will also have the following responsibilities:

  • Responsible for understanding business needs and translating these to System projects and System improvements or to Manual Process improvements.

  • Ensuring Quality in Business with respect to understanding: Organisation structure, Business
    Processes, Business Rules and System support

  • Lead in Product Development Analysis and design

  • Lead in Critical Projects Analysis and Design

  • Gives feedback on delivery and project plans and assists with impact analysis

  • Makes recommendations to management regarding opportunities, progress and improvement
    strategies.

  • Has an understanding of the many components that make up a business and is able to research
    and build entire business needs considering all elements.

  • Without supervision undertakes specialist feasibility analysis, evaluations or business projects

  • Collaborate with peer architects in other businesses to ensure proper solution integration.

  • Work closely with all stakeholders and secure buy-in.

  • Produces Business Architecture document which outlines the project intent and all impacted
    components.

  • Brief and sign-off on all
    solutions to be implemented with business owners and relevant implementation teams from Systems, Marketing,
  • Legal and Compliance, Operations and Training.

  • Develop business cases for solutions and assisting business owners in the process of developing theirs.

  • Play an active role in the prioritisation forums.

    Education

  • Matric (Essential)

  • BSC or BComm (Hons) (Informatics)

  • Business Analyst or Architecture course (Essential)

    Minimum Experience

  • 10 years of Business Analyst experience (Essential)

  • 5 years of Insurance Industry experience (Essential)

  • 7 years of UML experience (Essential)

  • 7 years of prototyping experience (Essential)

    Knowledge

  • Systems (Advanced).

  • Development (Intermediate).

  • Technology life cycle (Advanced).

  • Business (Advanced).

    Skills

  • Analytical and Conceptual (Advanced)

  • Verbal and written communication (Advanced)

  • Project management (Intermediate)

  • Leadership (Advanced)

  • Relationship building (Advanced)

  • Problem Solving (Advanced)

  • Business architecture document development (Advanced)

  • Solution Design (Advanced)

  • Business Acumen Skills (Advanced)

  • Stakeholder management (Advanced)

    How to Apply

  • For more information and job application details, see; Discovery Limited Business Architect Jobs in South Africa







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