What are the responsibilities and job description for the Senior System Analyst position at Agility Partners?
This position will be focused on unattended retail solutions for clients and consumers across the US. This role will be responsible for functional and systems analysis efforts related to enhancements of existing Micromarket and Vending management applications.
The Sr. Systems Analyst is responsible for providing system analysis, configuration, QA, and escalated support for Enterprise level applications. This includes the following responsibilities:
- Work directly with business team members, third party technology vendors, developers, and user community to identify business needs and interpret them as application requirements.
- Draft requirements and specifications documentation, complete to signoff and validate deliverables to specifications.
- Work on backlog refinement, collaborate with other analysts and developers, along with the Product Owner and the Business to ensure backlog is populated with the granular stories needed for development.
- Function as primary liaison between business and developers to ensure understanding of documented system requirements.
- Ensure standards are maintained related to documents and deliverables.
- Write and execute functional test scripts and coordinate with other analysts for system integration testing.
- Evaluate system deliverables to ensure they are free of defects and meet the quality standards of the department.
- Perform analysis and critical thinking required to troubleshoot application-related issues and assist in the resolution.
- Learn a very complex business and facilitate projects and decisions across many disparate user groups.
Qualifications:
Bachelor’s degree required.
3-5 years of experience in a functional analysis role.
A solid track record of the following is a must:
- On time development of user stories, application requirements, and/or process flow diagrams
- Use of various requirements elicitation techniques, such as end user interviews, job shadowing, brainstorming, business process analysis, and process flow documentation, facilitation.
- Translate business requirements into solution design, in partnership with product owners, architects, and developers.
- UI design and/or mockups, with detailed requirements
- The ability to work independently and in a team environment.
- Creative problem-solving skills to help identify, communicate, and resolve systems issues to maximize the benefit of IT systems investments.
- Managing conflicting priorities and gaining consensus across multiple user groups
- Committed and enthusiastic approach to supporting business customers and end users.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
- Excellent organizational and time management skills
- General understanding of application architecture and technology
Special Skills and/or Training Desired:
- Experience working in an Agile / Scrum environment.
- Formal training or certification in Business Analysis, group facilitation, or project/product management
- Experience with Azure DevOps
- SQL skills and ability to read stored procedures and understand desired functionality within the SP, parameters, and data flow.
- Familiarity with JSON
- Experience in a technical/system/integrations analyst role
