Senior System Analyst Lead

Senior System Analyst Lead (Hybrid - Columbia, SC)

The Senior System Analyst Lead works with Business Solution Leaders and Product Owners to design and implement solutions using the AgFirst technical platform. Focuses on improving business process efficiency, reducing operational risk, and aligning technology with strategic goals. Provides technical leadership, ensures best practices, and bridges communication between business and IT teams.

What You'll Do: 

• Lead efforts to identify and translate business and functional requirements into system workflows, technical design inputs, and test conditions.
• Evaluate systems to identify inefficiencies, technical debt, functional gaps, and drive opportunities for modernization.
• Support design reviews with insights on system testability, integration architecture, and data dependencies.
• Lead impact assessments for proposed changes by evaluating feasibility, identifying dependencies, and assessing downstream effects.
• Mitigate system risks by proactively identifying integration issues, dependency conflicts, and process breakdowns.
• Own system documentation across the lifecycle, ensuring clarity, traceability, and alignment with enterprise architecture standards.
• Define and execute test strategies that ensure full coverage across functional and non-functional scenarios, including data preparation and validation oversight.
• Drive integration testing efforts across APIs, third-party systems, and internal platforms by collaborating with developers and analysts.
• Analyze current test coverage and automation frameworks and propose enhancements or automation opportunities that reduce execution time and support continuous delivery.
• Take initiative to mentor junior team members by promoting best practices in system analysis, stakeholder engagement, and structured problem-solving.

What You'll Need: 

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, business, or related field
• Strong expertise (10+ years of experience) in System analysis, Business Requirements gathering, and Solution design
• Proficient in UML, BPMN, Data Mapping, and SQL for data analysis
• Hands-on experience with JIRA, Confluence, Visio, and Azure DevOps
• Skilled in Agile, Scrum, and Hybrid SDLC methodologies
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills
• Experience (at least 5+ years) leading cross-functional teams and mentoring teams
• Ability to translate complex business needs into clear technical requirements.
• Expertise with API integration, functional testing, and UAT coordination
• Skill with middle layer (Message Queues, API management), SQL, development tools like Visual Studio, mobile development libraries, low code platforms, etc.
• Solid understanding of business analysis and business process analysis concepts.
• Ability to depict design and architecture with structured, logical, and deployment diagrams
• Solid programming experience (5+ years) in any of the programming languages (.NET, Java)

AgFirst Farm Credit Bank provides financing, as well as technology and other value-added services, to association partners so they can lend to rural residents and agricultural operations of all sizes. We take pride in investing in our employees, our partners and our community.

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