Sr Analyst Business Systems

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The Senior Business Analyst – Architecture will serve as a key liaison between business units, IT, and architecture teams to ensure that architectural solutions align with business goals and objectives. This role involves understanding complex systems and architectural frameworks, capturing detailed requirements, and ensuring that technology architecture meets the evolving needs of the organization. The Senior Business Analyst will work closely with architects to support strategic planning, system integration, and modernization efforts.

Responsibilities:

• Architecture Requirements Gathering: Collaborate with business leaders and architects to elicit, document, and analyze business requirements for architectural initiatives, ensuring alignment with long-term technology and business strategies. Create Jira stories required for implementation & tracking and Management of Kanban board related to Architecture Governance.
• Business Process and Systems Analysis: Analyze existing business processes and system architectures, identifying opportunities for modernization, optimization, and alignment with architectural standards and frameworks (e.g., TOGAF, Zachman).
• Alignment with Architecture Strategy: Support the creation and maintenance of architectural roadmaps, ensuring that business and technology initiatives are aligned with the broader enterprise architecture strategy.
• System Integration: Assist in the design and implementation of system integration strategies, ensuring seamless interoperability between new and legacy systems.
• Data Analysis and Reporting: Analyze business and system data to support architectural decisions and provide insights into system performance, scalability, and business alignment.
• Governance and Compliance: Ensure that all proposed architectural solutions adhere to organizational standards, regulatory requirements, and best practices for security and data governance.
• Continuous Improvement: Lead post-implementation reviews of architecture projects to assess outcomes, document lessons learned and identify opportunities for further architectural improvements.
• Works independently, with guidance in only the most complex situations. Reviews progress with management.

Required Skills

• Bachelor’s degree in business administration, Information Systems, Architecture, or a related field or equivalent experience.
• Minimum 5+ years working as a Business Systems Analyst, experience with financial systems with a focus on enterprise architecture, system design, or IT modernization initiatives preferred.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Ability to understand both business processes and complex system architectures, ensuring alignment between business goals and technical solutions.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to effectively translate technical architecture concepts into business-friendly language.
• Strong problem-solving skills, with the ability to analyze complex business and technical challenges and propose efficient, sustainable architectural solutions.
• Proven experience managing large-scale architecture projects, including the ability to prioritize tasks, manage timelines, and work with cross-functional teams.

Preferred Skills:

• Certifications: Certified Business Analysis Professional (CBAP).
• Technical Proficiency: Familiarity with enterprise systems (e.g., ERP, CRM), cloud platforms (AWS, Azure), and system integration technologies.
• Experience with Agile methodologies, DevOps practices, and continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) pipelines.
• Knowledge of IT Portfolio Management tools like ServiceNow / LeanIX / EOS and Architecture tools like Sparx EA.

We are an equal opportunity employer with a commitment to diversity.  All individuals, regardless of personal characteristics, are encouraged to apply.  All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, race, color, national origin, ancestry, sex, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, gender expression, marital status, pregnancy, religion, physical or mental disability, military or veteran status, genetic information, or any other status protected by applicable state or local law.