Systems Analyst
Reverside Systems Analyst
Summary
Senior Systems Analyst at Reverside, an IT services provider in Johannesburg, who reverse-engineers complex legacy enterprise platforms — analysing .NET/C#, SQL Server, and Java code, databases, integrations, and configurations to document current-state architecture and support modernisation, migration, and decommissioning initiatives.
Reverside is an established IT services provider delivering
high-quality Software Development, IT Resourcing, Digital Transformation, and Systems Support solutions. We are always looking for skilled professionals to
join our growing team and contribute to innovative technology projects across
various industries.
We are seeking a Senior Systems Analyst with a strong hybrid
analyst-developer profile to reverse-engineer and analyse complex legacy
enterprise platforms. The role focuses on understanding existing application
code, databases, integrations, configurations, and system behaviour to create
accurate current-state documentation and support modernisation, migration,
decomposition, and decommissioning initiatives.
Key Responsibilities
- Reverse-engineer legacy applications and
identify business rules, processing logic, dependencies, and technical debt.
- Analyse .NET/C#, SQL Server, Java components,
stored procedures, integrations, and configuration.
- Document current-state architecture, data flows,
dependencies, interfaces, and system interactions.
- Produce business rules, data lineage, dependency
maps, interface inventories, and as-is process models.
- Conduct impact, root-cause, data, and
integration analysis.
- Translate technical findings into requirements,
user stories, decision points, and actionable recommendations.
- Support migration, decomposition, remediation,
and decommissioning initiatives.
- Collaborate with developers, architects,
testers, business stakeholders, and platform teams.
- Support testing, validation, backlog refinement,
and delivery planning.
- Maintain traceability, governance, risk, and
auditability throughout the analysis lifecycle.
- 5+ years' Systems / Technical Business Analysis
- Legacy System Analysis & Reverse Engineering
- .NET / C#
- SQL Server & Database Analysis
- Source Code Analysis
- Data Flow & Dependency Mapping
- REST / SOAP APIs
- Batch & File-Based Integrations
- Azure DevOps / Jira
- UML / BPMN / ERD
- Data Analysis using SQL & Excel
- Requirements & Technical Documentation
- Impact & Root-Cause Analysis
Advantageous Skills
- Java
- Azure / Cloud Architecture
- Financial Services / Banking
- Legacy Modernisation & Migration
- CI/CD & Source Control
- Customer Information / Onboarding Systems
Software Intelligence / Dependency Analysis Tools
Qualifications
- Bachelor's Degree in Information Systems,
Computer Science, Engineering, or related field.
- 5+ years' experience in systems analysis,
technical business analysis, software engineering, or application analysis.
Core Competencies
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
- Technical investigation and reverse-engineering
capability
- Excellent stakeholder communication
- Strong documentation and modelling skills
- Ability to work across technical and business
environments
- Attention to detail and structured thinking
- Comfortable working with ambiguity and
incomplete documentation
- Strong collaboration and delivery focus