Senior Business Systems Analyst

Posted Yesterday
2 Locations
In-Office or Remote
89K-160K Annually
Senior level
Cloud • Security • Software • Cybersecurity
Akamai powers and protects life online by solving the toughest challenges and turning the impossible into the possible.
The Role
Leads business analysis for complex enterprise system initiatives across the SDLC. Manages requirements validation, solution delivery, system integrations, data management, workshops, process improvements, documentation, UAT coordination, and cross-functional collaboration. Performs current-state and future-state gap analyses, optimizes business system configurations, and uses generative AI to accelerate requirements documentation, user stories, and test scenarios.
Summary Generated by Built In

Would you like to influence the way Akamai's business is operating?

Do you thrive on creating innovative solutions to solve problems?

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Our Team leads complex initiatives in a global environment, supporting enterprise-wide applications, system integrations and ongoing enhancements. We serve as a strategic bridge between high-level stakeholder vision/operational reality, translating sophisticated requirements into comprehensive technical solutions driving organizational efficiency.

Partner with the best

You will manage the business analysis process across the SDLC, collaborating with cross-functional leaders to optimize business processes. By leveraging expertise in business processes/system operations, you will co-create and deliver innovative/impactful solutions to the organization's complex systems challenges, maintaining high standards of technical accuracy.

As a Business Systems Analyst Senior, you will be responsible for:

  • Driving comprehensive business analysis for complex enterprise system initiatives
  • Managing requirements validation and solution delivery throughout development lifecycles
  • Enhancing system integration processes/data management across enterprise applications. Apply structured problem-solving frameworks to decompose ambiguous business challenges into actionable, measurable solutions
  • Facilitating structured workshops and sessions for requirement elicitation, prioritization, and validation
  • Contributing to process improvement initiatives and optimizing business system configurations
  • Leading documentation efforts/maintaining comprehensive business analysis artifacts for enterprise systems.
  • Driving cross-functional collaboration with developers, architects, project managers, and business owners to ensure aligned, on-time delivery

Do what you love

To be successful in this role you will:

  • Have 5 years of relevant experience and a Bachelor's / Master's degree or its equivalent
  • Have in-depth understanding of business analysis methodologies, including advanced elicitation techniques and functional specification standards.
  • Demonstrate domain expertise to understand complex business problems and ensure system modifications align with enterprise configuration and change management principles.
  • Demonstrate advanced working knowledge of enterprise system integration, data mapping, and end-to-end traceability across business platforms.
  • Possess comprehensive understanding of SDLC processes, requirements validation, and UAT coordination for successful solution delivery.
  • Exhibit stakeholder facilitation and consensus-building skills to lead cross-functional workshops and drive alignment.
  • Perform gap analyses between current-state and future-state processes, recommending solutions that align with strategic objectives.
  • Leverage generative AI to accelerate requirements documentation, gap analysis, user story creation, and test scenario generation.

About us

At Akamai, we make life better for billions of people, trillions of times a day.
Whether you're streaming live events, scrolling social media, watching your favorite series, or managing your savings, we're the engine behind the scenes. We provide the world's most distributed platform from Cloud to Edge to help the giants of the digital world work faster and stay more secure, making the internet a better experience for everyone.
Our focus is simple:
Cloud and Edge: Running apps closer to users for instant performance.
Security: Neutralizing threats before they ever reach your data.
Content Delivery: Scaling the world's biggest moments without a glitch.
AI: Enabling our customers to build, secure, and scale AI apps on the world's most distributed cloud platform.
At Akamai, we don't just support the internet; we power and protect it, because behind every great digital experience is a massive hidden challenge. And we're the ones who solve it. When millions of people hit play or pay, Akamai ensures it just works.

Benefits at Akamai: We support your health, well-being, finances, and life beyond work. See our benefits.

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Compensation

Akamai is committed to fair and equitable compensation practices. For US based candidates only - the base salary for this position ranges from $88,900 - $160,100/year; a candidate’s salary is determined by various factors including, but not limited to, relevant work experience, skills, certifications and location. Compensation for candidates outside the US will vary. The compensation package may also include incentive compensation opportunities in the form of annual bonus or incentives, equity awards and an Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP). Akamai provides industry-leading benefits including healthcare, 401K savings plan, company holidays, vacation (in the form of PTO), sick time, family friendly benefits including parental leave and an employee assistance program including a focus on mental and financial wellness; Eligibility requirements apply.

Skills Required

  • 5 years of relevant experience
  • Bachelor’s or Master’s degree, or equivalent
  • In-depth understanding of business analysis methodologies, advanced elicitation techniques, and functional specification standards
  • Domain expertise in complex business problems, enterprise configuration, and change management principles
  • Advanced knowledge of enterprise system integration, data mapping, and end-to-end traceability
  • Comprehensive understanding of SDLC processes, requirements validation, and UAT coordination
  • Stakeholder facilitation and consensus-building skills
  • Experience performing current-state and future-state gap analyses
  • Ability to leverage generative AI for requirements documentation, gap analysis, user story creation, and test scenario generation

Akamai Technologies Compensation & Benefits Highlights

The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Akamai Technologies and has not been reviewed or approved by Akamai Technologies.

  • Leave & Time Off Breadth — Unlimited PTO in the U.S., wellness days, paid volunteering time, and the FlexBase model contribute to broad time‑off flexibility. These practices are described as supporting strong work‑life balance.
  • Parental & Family Support — Generous paid parental leaves, paid family care leave, subsidized backup childcare, and inclusive family‑building benefits via Carrot form a comprehensive family support suite. Coverage spans fertility support through caregiving resources.
  • Retirement Support — A 401(k) with a substantial company match and immediate vesting, plus Roth and Mega Backdoor Roth options, underpin long‑term savings. These features provide reliable long‑term savings opportunities.

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The Company
HQ: Cambridge, MA
10,285 Employees
Year Founded: 1998

What We Do

At Akamai, we make life better for billions of people, billions of times a day. Every moment, billions of people, all over the world, are using the internet to shop, play games, look after finances, learn remotely, share videos, connect across the world, and so much more. These life-shaping digital experiences wouldn’t be possible without Akamai. We power and protect life online. It’s an extraordinary mission, and our global teams achieve it by solving the toughest challenges, and turning the impossible into the possible. With the world’s most distributed compute platform — from cloud to edge — we make it easy for businesses to develop and run applications, while we keep experiences closer to users and threats farther away. That’s why innovative companies worldwide choose Akamai to build, deliver, and secure their digital experiences. Thanks to our world’s most distributed platform for cloud computing, security, and content delivery. Akamai keeps applications and experiences closer and threats farther away. Devoted, determined problem-solvers who share a passion for technology, we’re always pushing ground-breaking ideas and driving innovation. Do you want to power and protect life online, by solving the toughest challenges with us? Be part of an amazing team!

Why Work With Us

Our people are devoted, determined problem-solvers who share a passion for technology. We find solutions through persistence, and push ground-breaking ideas forward with urgency and courage. This creates an environment where we harness creative energy and drive innovation. We are inclusive and diverse, and we love to collaborate across the world.

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