Sr Business Systems Analyst

Sr Business Systems Analyst

Requirements

• Undergraduate degree or Technical Certificate
• 5+ years relevant experience
• Advanced communications, problem-solving and decision making skills
• Experience in moderate scale corporate systems analysis
• Ability to work with systems users or potential users to develop system specifications and requirements
• Ability to translate user requirements into technical specifications with limited guidance

Responsibilities

• Communicates with programmers to ensure understanding of business processes and requirements of the users
• Works with programmers to ensure understanding of business processes and requirements of the processes to ensure that the delivered system matches the specified features and functions
• Participates in the assessment of available technologies recommending innovative and cost-effective solutions
• Maps current business processes to new systems and participate in the transition to the new solution
• Determines interface requirements for effective system transition
• Develops detailed specification documents that include features and functions of the new system
• Develops test plans and test case scenarios to guarantee the new system design meets business requirements
• Implements assigned new system installations, upgrade and conversions
• Documents selected system parameters, file layouts and application design layouts
• Tracks open issues and resolution of issues
• Responsible for analyzing a broad range of business requirements, conducting program/system research and analysis to identify key components for solutions delivery and problem resolution
• Develops new applications and performs unit/component test for new application development initiatives aligned to business needs and in accordance with technology architecture standards
• Ensures effective communication of solutions development requirements for respective area and contributes to project plans, estimations, timelines and status updates to support management team/clients on prioritizing new and existing projects against IT requirements and business objectives
• Informs key stakeholders of any issues that may impact other areas of the project and resolves or escalates issues as required
• Supports business inquiries and business activities through execution of small enhancements and break/fix implementations (e.g. source code changes)
• Works with Business Analysts/Systems Analysts, other technology Developers/Solution Designers to ensure the configuration and custom components meet application requirements and performance goals
• Creates and maintains quality code, ensures defect free programming consistent with standards; provides code maintenance and supports during testing cycles and post-production deployment and participate in reviewing peer coding
• Adheres to standard security coding practices to ensure application is free of most common coding vulnerabilities
• Participates in identifying and recommending development/testing solutions/tools in support of project/application objectives
• Completes unit and integration testing for conformance to standards and adherence to design specifications
• Complies with well-defined enterprise technology delivery practices and standards and project management disciplines by participating in scope assessment, risk and cost analysis
• Assists in the development/maintenance of comprehensive processes for prevention of issues and participate in problem determination and timely resolution of incidents applying appropriate quality measures
• Perform Systems Administration of applications/environments supported by the LOB, monitors application/service performance, and performs configuration, backup, authentication & tuning
• Ensure both state-of-health monitoring and monthly SLA targets are in place, and are being met
• Provides technical expertise during Incident management, analyzes incident reports and outages, performs impact assessment for incidents and facilitates internal and external communication throughout incident resolution
• Continuously enhances knowledge/expertise in area and keeps current with leading-edge technologies, emerging trends/developments and grows knowledge of the business, applications, infrastructure, analytical tools and techniques
• Prioritizes and manages own workload in order to deliver quality results and meet timelines as assigned
• Supports a positive work environment that promotes service to the business, quality, innovation and teamwork and ensures timely communication of issues/points of interest
• Identifies and recommends opportunities to enhance productivity, effectiveness and operational efficiency of the business unit and/or team
• Establishes effective relationships across multiple business and technology partners, program and project managers
• Participates in knowledge transfer within the team and business units
• Impact assessment for incidents and facilitates internal and external communication throughout incident resolution

Preferred Qualifications

No preferred qualifications provided.