Principal Systems Analyst

Job Description:

Position Description: 

Performs technical analysis of sophisticated Web application development concepts, using Spring MVC, Spring Core, XML, and Cascading Style Sheets (CSS). Performs systems analysis with Hava and Confluence. Designs new systems based on requirements. Provides analysis on complex systems analysis projects, often across subsystems and companies, in a matrix organization. Advises on risk assessment and risk management strategies. Consults with business users to develop recommendations that address difficult and complex business needs and opportunities. 

Primary Responsibilities: 

• Leads and conducts interviews with business users to gather requirements and analyzes technology needs and system and workflow challenges. 

• Develops Application Programming Interface (API) definitions and service call strategies to execute business logic. 

• Establishes full project life cycle plans for complex systems analysis projects and defines project scope, leads analysis, design, coding, system and user testing, problem resolution and planning.     

• Leads other analysts in the execution of documents on large and complex projects and monitors the quality and progress of documents created by other analysts.   

• Leads and participates in the definition of test strategies, and coordinates user acceptance testing efforts. 

• Communicates progress of multiple projects to management, engages stakeholders on a regular basis, and manages expectations of internal and external stakeholders.  

• Proactively navigates the organization to accomplish tasks and works on multiple features simultaneously when needed. 

• Works with other teams to evolve standards and best practices for systems analysis processes.  

• Participates in incident and crisis management to assess business impact, determine and facilitate any workarounds, in concert with the production support organization.  

• Coaches and mentors junior product analysts and developers on systems analysis techniques and business workflows. 

• Assesses design recommendations made by other analysts. 

• Verifies that objectives, requirements, use cases and specifications remain current. 

• Responsible for meeting on-time and on-budget project goals. 

• Advises on risk assessment and risk management strategies for projects. 

• Acts as a primary liaison for business units to resolve various project/technology issues. 

Education and Experience: 

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology, Information Systems or a closely related field (or foreign education equivalent) and five (5) years of experience as a Principal Systems Analyst (or closely related occupation) orchestrating the design, development, and implementation of highly scalable, secure, Cloud-ready enterprise Web applications within the financial services sector.