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Purpose:

The Sr. Business Systems Analyst is responsible for eliciting, analyzing, and documenting business and technical needs of strategic projects and production support initiatives for the Data Integrations team. Projects will involve several business areas with scope of medium to large complexity, ambiguity, urgency, risk, and technical and regulatory sophistication. Production support will involve initial triage of incidents as well as investigative technical and business rule research. Serves as the lead for all or majority of the analysis efforts of assigned programs/projects; coordinating the work of other business system analysts as needed. Acts as a liaison, facilitating and communicating among several business and IT stakeholders. You will report directly to the Manager of Software Development.

Accountabilities:

• Supports projects and production support items encompassing inbound application processing and the downstream integration with other impacted systems.

• Supports sophisticated projects involving ambiguity and risk encompassing multiple multi-functional business areas.

• Fosters relationships as well as facilitates and leads interviews with business and technology partners to coordinate comprehensive needs and potential interdependencies.

• Partners with Product Owners to identify requirements for system and process enhancements as well as production support.

• Captures user requirements and acceptance criteria from business partners and translates them to user stories for the product teams to work from.

• Leads analysis efforts and coordinates efforts of other BSAs.

• Leads/demonstrates techniques to create business and functional requirements (artifacts).

• Analyzes business problems and makes recommendations for creative solutions.

• Facilitates, prioritizes, and proposes business process re-designs to improve process results.

• Participates in vendor requests for information or proposals (RFI/RFPs).

• Embraces change and provides encouragement to guide others through change; manages conflict.

• Increases business acumen and awareness of best practices to continuously improve business analysis capabilities.

• Proficient at right-sizing the message to the audience.

Qualifications and Experience:

• Bachelor's degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Management Information Systems, or equivalent combination of education and work experience required. Military experience will be considered in lieu of formal degree.

• 5+ years of progressive responsibility & successful business system analysis experience required; with 3+ years of experience operating as a Business System Analyst within an Agile framework.

• Annuity order entry systems, DTCC, and other related downstream system knowledge preferred.

• Proficient in business analysis concepts (business process modeling (BPM), context diagrams, use cases, user stories).

• Proficiency with techniques used in requirements elicitation, project scoping, requirements analysis, project planning, and analysis activities.

• Knowledge in Annuity domain is preferred.

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