Lead System Analyst

Rainforest Alliance • Amsterdam, NL

2d • Hybrid

About The Position

The Lead Systems Analyst shapes, defines, and supports the delivery of complex technology and data solutions across complex, cross-system, and cross-domain landscapes. You will blend deep systems analysis expertise with an understanding of enterprise architecture, integration patterns, and business strategy. This ensures solutions are robust, scalable, and aligned to organizational objectives. It enables informed investment decisions and measurable business outcomes.

The Lead Systems Analyst works with senior stakeholders, cross-functional delivery teams, architects, and third-party partners to translate complex business problems into clear, relevant requirements and solution options. You will drive clarity across the full analysis lifecycle. This lifecycle includes discovery and planning, solution design, implementation support, and handover. You will ensure that it well understands and effectively manages risks, dependencies, and impacts.

You will report to the Solution Delivery Director.

Requirements

• Degree or equivalent experience in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or related discipline.
• BCS Business Analysis Diploma or equivalent
• Agile certification (e.g. Certified ScrumMaster (CSM) or equivalent)
• TOGAF Foundation (or equivalent architecture certification)
• Cloud fundamentals (e.g. AWS Cloud Practitioner, Azure Fundamentals)
• Data-related certification (e.g. data analysis, SQL, or governance-focused)
• Experience with Agile, Scrum, Waterfall, and hybrid delivery models.
• Experience with integration patterns, APIs, events, cloud, and data platforms.
• Familiarity with engineering best practices, CI/CD, and software development lifecycles.
• Knowledge of project governance, risk management, and business change processes.

Responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end systems analysis across discovery, delivery and BAU, covering legacy and greenfield environments.
• Produce integrated analysis plans showing timelines, milestones, dependencies, and required inputs across technology and business teams.
• Provide forward-looking views of analysis priorities, solution options, and agreement on organisational goals, promoting informed decision-making and investment trade-offs.
• Map inter-system and inter-team dependencies, ensuring clarity of impacts across architecture, data, and integration layers.
• Provide decision-ready reporting on progress, risks, and important insights to support governance and executive decision-making.
• Ensure compliance with organisational policies, industry standards, and regulatory requirements.
• Produce stakeholder maps identifying important influences, interests, and decision-makers.
• Facilitate workshops, discovery sessions, and decision-capture activities to shape solution direction.
• Be a mediator between business, engineering, data, and architecture teams to resolve conflicts and align outcomes.
• Foster a culture of accountability, ensuring clarity of ownership for analysis deliverables.
• Analyse performance metrics and provide recommendations to improve predictability, throughput, and quality.
• Lead systems analysis across AS-IS, gap analysis, target journeys, processes, and data flows.
• Assess end-to-end integration impacts across APIs, events, batch processes, and third-party interfaces, ensuring understanding of target architecture.
• Define and validate non-functional requirements including security, resilience, and performance.
• Produce high-quality artefacts including functional specifications, user stories/BDD, acceptance criteria, UML/BPMN models, and interface contracts.
• Conduct data profiling, reconciliation, lineage analysis, and control assessments.
• Translate data analysis into applicable insights to support solution design, risk mitigation, and business outcomes.
• Work with product, engineering, architecture, and operations to ensure solutions are aligned, scalable, and secure.
• Mentor analysts to uplift capability, consistency, and pace.

Benefits

• Be a part of a global organization with a strong mission and a collaborative, respectful, and accountable culture.
• Enjoy opportunities for professional growth and career development.
• Benefit from remote working flexibility and flexible hybrid working environment.
• Receive a competitive salary package.
• A favourable time‑off policy, including annual leave and Resilience Days, to help you recharge and balance life outside of work.
• Prioritize your wellbeing. We have numerous ways to promote work-life balance, so you get the chance to take some time off, recharge, and remain at your best. This includes: Resilience and personal leave days, Employee assistance programs, Wellbeing activities, Sabbatical opportunities.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: Associate degree