Business Analyst/Data Analyst
Disruptive IT
Sandton, Gauteng
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Job description
About the Role
Disruptive IT is looking for an experienced Data Analyst / Business Analyst – Data Products for a 6-month contract opportunity based in Sandton.
The role will act as the bridge between business stakeholders, architecture teams and BI/data development teams, ensuring that business requirements, calculations, KPIs, dimensions, relationships and data definitions are accurately translated into enterprise data products.
The successful candidate will have strong experience in business analysis, data analysis, data modelling, ERDs, requirements gathering and data governance.
Key Responsibilities
Facilitate workshops with business stakeholders to gather and validate reporting, analytics and data requirements.
Translate business requirements into structured data requirements and business rules.
Identify inconsistencies and conflicts in business definitions and facilitate resolution.
Develop and maintain conceptual, logical and physical data models.
Develop and maintain detailed Entity Relationship Diagrams (ERDs).
Define entities, attributes, relationships, cardinality, hierarchies and business rules.
Maintain business glossaries, KPI definitions and metadata.
Establish traceability between business requirements, data models and delivered reporting solutions.
Support BI and development teams through design, development, testing and deployment.
Validate delivered solutions against approved business requirements.
Maintain data lineage, ownership and governance documentation.
Support business data-quality assessments and issue resolution.
Participate in architecture and data-model review processes.
Create and maintain user stories, process maps, source-to-target mappings and business-rule catalogues.
Help standardise calculations and reporting definitions across the organisation.
Technical & Business Analysis Skills
Strong experience in:
Business analysis and requirements elicitation
Data analysis
Data modelling
Conceptual, logical and physical data models
ERD design
Dimensional modelling
Facts, dimensions and hierarchies
Slowly changing dimensions
Data warehousing and analytics
Business process analysis
Process mapping
Microsoft Fabric concepts
Power BI semantic models
SQL for investigation and validation
Data lineage
Metadata management
Data governance
Data-quality management
KPI and business metric definition
Key Competencies
Strong workshop facilitation skills.
Excellent stakeholder engagement.
Ability to communicate between technical and business teams.
Strong analytical and conceptual thinking.
Excellent documentation skills.
Structured problem solving.
Ability to challenge assumptions and drive consensus.
Strong attention to detail.
Ability to work across multiple delivery teams.
Strong written and verbal communication skills.
Experience Required
5–8 years' experience in Business Analysis, Data Analysis, Business Intelligence or Data Modelling.
Proven experience translating business requirements into data and analytics solutions.
Experience producing detailed ERDs and logical data models.
Experience working with stakeholders on reporting, analytics or data-transformation initiatives.
Experience supporting development teams throughout the solution-delivery lifecycle.
Experience documenting business rules, KPIs, calculations and data lineage.
Experience working within Agile or iterative delivery environments.
Advantageous
Property, REIT or property-management industry experience.
Microsoft Fabric exposure.
Power BI experience.
Enterprise analytics platform experience.
Enterprise or information architecture experience.
Enterprise information modelling experience.
ERP, finance or operational systems experience.
Data governance or master-data experience.
MRI Property Management or Fraxion experience.
Qualifications
Bachelor's degree or diploma in:
Information Systems
Business Analysis
Data Analytics
Computer Science
Or a related field
- Advantageous certifications include CBAP, AAC, PMI-PBA, Power BI, Microsoft Fabric or Data Modelling certifications
Work Location: In person
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