Staff Systems Analyst

We are seeking a Staff Systems Analyst to join the Product Lifecycle Management Portfolio in the IT department. The Systems Analyst is responsible for assessing and analyzing system needs and working with business and IT stakeholders to develop system requirements and solution design. The Systems Analyst will work in an Agile Development team that develops and supports enterprise software solutions. This team is across various sites and time zones. Ideal candidates are innovative self-starters who can quickly learn and leverage new technologies and techniques to assist the organization in meeting stated business goals and objectives. The candidate will possess strong competencies in building customer loyalty, communication, business acumen, continuous improvement, managing work, schedule management, decision making, prioritization, managing conflict and impact analysis.
Staff Systems Analyst – Product Lifecycle Management Portfolio

We are seeking a Staff Systems Analyst to join the Product Lifecycle Management Portfolio in the IT department. The Systems Analyst is responsible for assessing and analyzing system needs and working with business and IT stakeholders to develop system requirements and solution design. The Systems Analyst will work in an Agile Development team that develops and supports enterprise software solutions. This team is across various sites and time zones.

Ideal candidates are innovative self-starters who can quickly learn and leverage new technologies and techniques to assist the organization in meeting stated business goals and objectives. The candidate will possess strong competencies in building customer loyalty, communication, business acumen, continuous improvement, managing work, schedule management, decision making, prioritization, managing conflict and impact analysis.

Responsibilities

• Analyze, identify, and create requirements for solutions to business problems.
• Analyze and map system capabilities to create options to satisfy requirements or make trade-offs.
• Describe and communicate the potential impacts from system changes.
• Propose innovative operational changes including people, processes, and systems.
• Assist in cost/benefit analysis and process modeling.
• Ensure change management to enable business readiness for uptake of new capabilities.
• Support an Agile development team through work with product owners and customers to enable implementation decisions.
• Provide input to product owner on system priorities to sustain current systems and prepare for future business demands.
• Communicate effectively within team and with other teams.
• Anticipate and mitigate project risk, document decisions, and manage change.
• Diagnose system and data issues and work across teams to resolve.
• Analyze, understand, and document the flow of information between applications, databases, and third party (client/vendor) systems for data and reporting.
• Prepare user acceptance tests and perform functional, acceptance and regression testing.
• Create mockups and/or wireframes to assist the development team in creating user interfaces.

Qualities of a successful candidate

• Ability to collaborate with business and product owners to define system requirements.
• Comfortable working with technical teams and business areas.
• Understand business priorities, scope, objectives.
• Analyze systems and data to develop insights and solution recommendations.
• Analyze systems, data, and dependencies to help solve system issues.
• Agile mindset to deliver often and iteratively.
• Interest and curiosity in technology.
• Self-Starter, high level of ownership, proactive nature, problem-solving skills.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration, Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or related field.
• Ability to communicate effectively in English, both written and verbal.
• 3+ years of experience in Systems Analysis.
• 3+ years of experience working with development teams.
• Understanding of how to apply the software development lifecycle (SDLC).
• Understand impacts across systems, both upstream and downstream.
• Ability to understand and translate from business to system requirements.
• Ability to translate technical issues and limitations to product owner / business stakeholders.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills.
• Experience with Agile methodologies.
• Experience in Project Management.
• Experience with user acceptance test case development and testing.
• Experience with SQL language and databases is a plus.