Senior Systems Analyst

Position Description: 

Evaluates design of existing systems to judge their functionality, efficiency, reliability, performance, usage, maintainability, and cost of ownership. Provides systems analysis on an Agile team that includes multiple business and technology partners. Participates in backlog refinement sessions. Executes analysis for medium-sized projects. Documents requirements and creates specifications, and makes design recommendations for medium-sized projects. 

Primary Responsibilities: 

• Works with business partners and technology partners to identify, review, define, interpret, and clarify scope of work in terms of business and/or system requirements and processes. 

• Contributes to the analysis strategy for technology projects culminating in the creation of documentation to support project needs. 

• Recommends changes to existing systems design to achieve requirements, and recommends designs for new systems based on requirements. 

• Documents objectives, use cases, requirements, and specifications. 

• Monitors documentation standards and best practices. 

• Recommends traceability improvements. 

• Establishes project plans for projects of moderate scope, and works on multiple projects concurrently. 

• Works directly with the user community for project definition. 

• Communicates project plan information, objectives, and deliverables to the team. 

• Works on complex assignments and on multiple phases of a project. 

• Assists in defining analysis strategy. 

• Writes business cases for review. 

• Identifies and records risks, issues, dependencies, and assumptions in accordance with project standards.  

• Participates in the review and validation of Quality Assurance test plans to ensure requirements have been met. 

Education and Experience: 

Bachelor’s degree (or foreign education equivalent) in Business Administration, Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology, Information Systems, or a closely related field and three (3) years of experience as a Senior Systems Analyst (or closely related occupation) supporting customer facing digital applications within an Agile delivery environments.  

Or, alternatively, Master’s degree (or foreign education equivalent) in Business Administration, Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology, Information Systems, or a closely related field and one (1) year of experience as a Senior Systems Analyst (or closely related occupation) supporting customer facing digital applications within an Agile delivery environments. 

Skills and Knowledge: 

Candidate must also possess: 

• Demonstrated Expertise (“DE”) performing sprint ceremonies (pre-refinement and refinement) to prepare stories for development using business analysis and Agile methodologies (Scrum and Kanban); creating cohesive, scalable, and end-to-end solutions involving front-end, back-end, and middleware components to define requirements and system design across dependent scrum teams, using Agile management tools (Jira). 

• DE analyzing the integration of REST APIs with front-end applications using API documentation; and analyzing service calls using API tools -- Postman and Insomnia.  

• DE creating diagram data flows, context, and functional decomposition to depict the current and future states of systems and their interactions with external systems to aid in communications, requirements analysis, and systems development using Microsoft Visio, Draw.IO, Confluence, and Miro; and working with UI/UX designers to create end to end digital layouts for optimum user experience using wireframe screens and prototypes. 

• DE querying relational database using SQL tools (Oracle). 

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