Senior Business Systems Analyst - Data & Systems Integration; RISE Platform

Position: Senior Business Systems Analyst - Data & Systems Integration (RISE Platform)
City : Austin

State : Texas

Neos is Seeking a Senior Business Systems Analyst - Data & Systems Integration (RISE Platform)for a contract role for with our client in Austin, TX.


*** HYBRID - ONLY CANDIDATES CURRENTLY RESIDING IN TEXAS (AUSTIN AREA PREFERRED) WILL BE CONSIDERED***

This position is hybrid, requiring three days per week in the office.

Work Location: 200

E. 18th St, Austin, Texas 78701

No calls, no emails, please respond directly to the "apply" link with your resume and contact details.

DESCRIPTION OF SERVICES

Our client is seeking a Senior Business Systems Analyst to support the modernization of its Retirement and Insurance System Enhancement (RISE) platform. This initiative involves transitioning from legacy People Soft systems and rebuilding core system capabilities through a modernized architecture.

This role will focus heavily on systems integration, data integration, data mapping, and data management, while helping resolve data and process-related issues across the platform. The analyst will work closely with business stakeholders, technical teams, and vendors to support data migrations, troubleshoot system issues, and ensure accurate data flow between systems.

The ideal candidate is a strong technical Business Analyst with experience supporting data conversion or system modernization projects and working within Agile/Scrum environments.

Key Responsibilities

• Identify opportunities for improving business processes to be more efficient or effective and assist in the business case vetting and preparation of proposals for information management efforts.
• Coordinate the analysis of program policies and procedures to determine their effect on automated systems and system functional areas.
• Focus on business value to develop ideas, including awareness of industry trends, risk assessments, business continuity, and business capability requirements.
• Coordinate and/or analyze user requirements, procedures, and problems to automate or improve existing systems; and coordinate and/or analyze computer system capabilities, workflow, and scheduling limitations.
• Coordinate the service request life cycle through customer-related service request responses, business requirements coordination, technical specifications and related artifacts review, and monitors system integration and user acceptance testing prior to implementation.
• Coordinate with outside vendors and contractors to complete projects and service requests; and defines, may assign, and evaluate their work.
• Identify potential project risks and difficulties, and designs strategies to mitigate or avoid them.
• Review complex project deliverables such as design documentation, test plans, and risk assessment plans, and provides comments and suggestions to document owners.
• Leads and coordinates process change requests and manage a project's scope, acceptance, installation, and deployment.
• Correlate business value and priorities to planning activities and goal-setting.
• Use Microsoft Azure Dev Ops (ADO) or similar tools to manage user stories, requirements, and work items

B. Other

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Develops training curriculum and conduct formal system training.
• Leads and coordinates processes change requests; and manages a project's scope, acceptance, installation, and deployment.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

Required Skills & Experience

Graduation from an accredited four-year college or university with major course work in management information systems or business administration.

• 8 years Experience planning, eliciting, analyzing, and managing business requirements and monitoring throughout the software development life cycle (SDLC)
• 8 years Experience leading simple and complex business process reengineering and transformation efforts that deliver efficiency improvements in quality and customer experience
• 8 years Experience performing a business relationship manager (liaison) role between functional and technical teams
• 8 years Experience leading project teams and/or operational and strategic organizational efforts that involved managing changes and stakeholder relationships, tracking and communicating performance, ensuring resource availability and allocation, coordinating third parties/vendors and delegating tasks
• 8 years
  
  Experience with projects addressing some of the following fields:
  • data management, data quality, data warehousing, data modeling, data migration and integration
  • secure file transfers
  • enterprise system analysis
  • enterprise architecture
  • information security principles
• 8 years Experience working in a scrum master role or in an agile scrum environment
• 8 years Strong SQL skills, ability to write and execute advanced SQL in both Oracle and SQL Server

Preferred

• 8 years Experience in a wide range of business environments including business consulting
• 8 years Experience with a variety of system implementations and enhancements supporting business areas related to: building operations, finance, benefits processing, procurement, contracts, legal, audit, human resources,…