Lead Systems Analyst

Description

• Client needs a Solution Design Architect Lead, serve as liaison between IT Management & business and development team. Work with the business to analyze and document business requirements and review/propose/produce specifications and solution for any new/change to technology applications. Work with the Technical Analyst and development team to ensure that they understand the specifications and the technology solution. Work with development team to produce documentation for transition technology solution between environments such as development, testing, staging/UAT, production and Disaster Recovery. Work with training team to document system scenarios and identify roles impacted and helps develop a change management/training plan. Conduct business process modeling and generate applicable scenarios for the technology functionality testing team.
• Responsible to identify, assess and document functional requirements, recommend business priorities and advise business on options, risks and costs. Conduct research to determine if solutions to business requirements currently exist within or outside the business unit, and if not, whether new solutions are feasible.
• Analyze impact of proposed solution across the business, develop use cases to explain/demonstrate business requirements/specifications to IT team and contribute a business or process perspective during design reviews.
• Assist Quality Management team to ensure that requirements documentation can be easily translated into test plans and ensure that the proper testing plans have been completed.
• Facilitate implementation of new functionality through training sessions, demos and the development of appropriate documentation. Provide relevant test scenarios for the testing team.
• Work with test team to develop system integration test scripts and ensure the testing results correspond to the business expectations.
• Work with business and other parties to document business process, workflow, requirements and other technical artifacts required for project planning activities.
• Document technical requirements and design specification to promote and implement Cloud architecture and solutions.
• Document technical requirements and design specification to promote and implement software as a service solutions. Look for opportunities for other cloud services
• Document technical requirements and design specification to implement infrastructure and an ERP solution. Promote Cloud architecture
• Document technical requirements and design specification to implement infrastructure and Business Intelligence. Promote Cloud architecture
• Document technical requirements and design specification to implement infrastructure and Content Management. Promote Cloud architecture
• Document technical requirements and design specification to implement infrastructure and Disaster Recovery solutions.
• Document technical requirements and design specification to implement health, transaction and performance monitoring of IT solutions
• Document technical requirements and design specification to implement non-production environment and SDLC processes.
• Document technical requirements and design specification to implement development and management environment including project management tools, SDLC tools, performance monitoring and reporting tools.
• Document technical requirements and design specification to implement VDI solutions for optimized development environment and to address security needs as needed (e.g. Windows 10 rollout).
• Document technical requirements and design specification and implement (code as needed) shared services, micro services and applications
• Research and validate hardware and infrastructure design.

Document technical details for the above legacy systems and modernization solutions

• Analyze code related to above business processes to extract requirements and business rules
• Lead effort to document requirements for enhancement and modernization of above business processes
• Contribute to the Design of the enhancements to the above business processes
• Lead development effort for enhancements to the above business processes
• Participate as needed in the development effort
• Lead the effort to rollout (deploy into production) system enhancements
• Participate, as needed, in the rollout process
• Participate in planning for the enhancement effort. To include cost estimates, scheduling and development of work breakdown structure
• Participate in research and analysis of new technologies that can be used to modernize the above business processes or facilitate the analysis and development of the system enhancements throughout the project lifecycle

Skills Required

• Proven history of working independently
• Experience writing use cases and user stories
• Proven history of working with Agile
• Experience setting up test scenarios
• Experience/understanding of business process reengineering and business modeling concepts, business systems development and analysis
• Awareness of the business and IT strategy
• Basic understanding of the company's business practices and familiarity with the company's products and services
• Line of Business experience (Risk and Finance Technology) - if possible
• Background working with Procurements Services Systems/Tools - if possible

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.