ANR - Business Systems Analyst Senior - CaseTrac

Job Type Full-time Description

Alaska Northstar Resources (ANR) is currently seeking a Business Systems Analyst to join our industry-leading, cloud computing team on a project that has yet to be awarded. This is a remote role with the potential for occasional travel: candidates in the Metro DC and Dayton, OH area will be given preference. 

The Business Systems Analyst will work remotely and closely with the Appian development team, playing a pivotal role in understanding and translating business needs into system requirements. The ideal candidate should have extensive working knowledge of and experience with the SAMIS and CMCS legacy systems and be able to provide insight into the functionality of these systems. This role involves performing detailed business process analysis, ensuring that the Appian applications align with business objectives and requirements while considering the constraints and capabilities of legacy systems. 

The Business Systems Analyst's duties and responsibilities will include, but be not limited to:  

• Collaborate with business stakeholders to gather and document business requirements. 
• Analyze and translate business needs into detailed system requirements and functional specifications, working closely with the Appian development team to ensure they understand and can meet these requirements 
• Provide in-depth knowledge and insights into the SAMIS and CMCS legacy systems and ensure that their capabilities and constraints are factored into Appian application development. 
• Assist in identifying gaps and opportunities for improvement in the transition to Appian solutions. 
• Collaborate with refactoring and modernization teams to ensure Appian applications are up to date and efficient. 
• Ensure information assurance and quality assurance in all Appian applications. 
• Liaison between the Business (internal operational business units as well as external users), the Government organization, and the Agile Scrum software teams 
• Work with Business Owners, Business Architect, and System Architects to ensure optimization of enterprise solutions as part of the company's system architecture. 
• Capture/understand business objectives, measures and targets to provide traceability. 
• Ensure target solution aligns to and enables business objectives. 
• Understand business issues and challenges of the company's member organization and industry. 
• Critically evaluate information gathered from multiple sources, reconcile conflicts, decompose high-level information into details, abstract up from low-level information to a general understanding, and distinguish user requests from underlying needs. 
• Elicit high/epic level and detailed requirements and translate into Jira user stories; methods of collection can include but are not limited to user interviews/surveys, analyzing documentation/business process workflows, and existing system documentation. 
• Drive and challenge business areas on assumptions; question and understand how they will successfully execute their plans related to the functionality requested. 
• Analyze current business environment to detect deficiencies and identify improvement opportunities. 
• Understand and apply high-level requirements and business processes. 
• Translate into epic user stories/functional workflows – define the ‘what’ and ‘why/value’. 
• Conduct backlog refinement and sizing with agile scrum team(s). 
• Proactively communicate and collaborate with internal and external stakeholders to analyze information needs and functional requirements. 
• Write and deliver functional/ detailed requirements and related workflows, use cases, Jira user stories, interface mock-ups/prototypes, screen designs and field definitions/rules. 
• Collaborate with developers and subject matter experts to establish the technical vision and analyze tradeoffs between usability and performance needs. 
• Deliver informative, well-organized presentations. 
• Document and deliver training as needed. 
• Participate in agile scrum team ceremonies; facilitate backlog refinement, facilitate sprint planning, attend daily standups, participate in sprint retrospective, receive sprint demos of working software. 
• Liaison/conduit between the business (internal and external), technical organization, PMO, and operational areas. 
• Obtain stakeholder buy-in and support for responsible initiatives. 
• Facilitate agile scrum team, product, and/or member meetings when needed. 
• Liaison to QA testers; review test plans/cases/scenarios and swarm on sprint testing activities when necessary. 
• Design and manage user acceptance testing. 
• Communicate and apply agile scrum methodologies; recommend and implement improvements in an iterative fashion. 
• Serves as a primary res