System Analyst at Takaful Insurance of Africa

TIA is hiring a system analyst to analyse and test our core insurance systems on short term basis.

The ideal candidate should have insurance domain knowledge and background.

Key responsibilities include:

• Examining current core system
• Producing specifications for new modules
• Troubleshooting technical issues
• Risk mitigation planning
• Creating new system guidelines
• Generating reports on efficiencies and improvement areas
• Meet with IT teams to establish system scope, goals and expected outcomes
• Translate highly technical specification into clear non-technical requirements
• Define and coordinate the execution of testing procedures, and develop test cases to serve the overall quality assurance process.
• Provide documentation of all processes and training as needed.
• Generate maintenance procedures, monitor systems health, gather system statistics, and troubleshoot reported errors and alarms.
• Implement best practices for scalability, supportability, ease of maintenance and system performance.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in computer science or information technology, or equivalent experience
• 4-6 years’ experience working with information technologies and systems analysis
• Strong computer, hardware, software, and analytical skills
• Proven ability to assess business needs and translate them into relevant solutions
• Strong understanding and knowledge of the principles and practices associated with database maintenance and administration
• Experience installing, configuring, documenting, testing, training, and implementing new applications and systems
• Working knowledge of a wide variety of programming languages
• Excellent analytical skills

Skills required

• Strong analytical skills
• Attention to detail
• Teamwork skills
• Written and verbal communication skills
• Interpersonal skills
• Flexibility
• Adaptability
• Initiative