Vacancy for a skilled business analyst in Cape Town

I need the guy that this person will be replacing, so if you know of a BA looking for a challenging yet fun job in Cape Town, let me know! ;) 

Dave

A well established Development House seek skilled business analysts with a good knowledge of MS SQL and systems design to work on development projects in a variety of industries. The successful applicant will be equally comfortable dealing with business users, senior management and technical development staff.

Monthly salary : R25,000+ (plus excellent benefits) – dependant on skills and experience

The primary functions of this job are to:
· Analyse business requirements and design systems solutions to meet these requirements.
· Model and design data structures to support requirements.
· Develop, test and implement the solutions designed – using the SQL and a revolutionary rapid development toolkit.
· Administer MS SQL Databases in the development, QA and production environments

The successful candidate would be responsible, among other duties, for the following:
· Facilitate requirements gathering and data modeling sessions.
· Reading, understanding and interpreting business requirements (conceptual data models and business process narratives).
· Interviewing business users face-to-face to clarify detailed requirements and expectations.
· Analysing the information gathered and clearly defining the system objects required to support the defined requirements (including physical database, screen and report designs).
· Designing, demonstrating and modifying prototypes in order to understand requirements.
· Writing SQL queries and database update procedures.
· Testing systems developed to ensure that they meet the requirements of the business and are technically sound and robust.
· Implementing the systems developed and managing changes to system in production.
· Creating and managing databases to support the development, QA and production requirements.

Skills Required
· A degree or diploma in IT with a business focus (eg. Bus. Sci or B Com (IS)) will be advantageous.
· At least 5 years experience in systems development projects.
· Understanding relational databases, relational theory and SQL and writing complex SQL.
· Programming in MS SQL stored procedures
· Understanding business processes and best practices.
· Generating new ideas and applying these into the wider context.
· Conveying information fluently, interpreting and clarifying details and explaining rationale.

Comments

[DaveG]

@Marc
Which part Marc?
The BA job in Cape Town, the fact that I'm actually posting to my blog or the reason I need the BA this person would be replacing?
;)
Dave

[Marc]

Hmmmmm....sounds interesting ;)