Senior Data and System Analyst

Expleo • Minneapolis, MN

14h • $155,000 - $165,000 • Hybrid

About The Position

Trissential is hiring a Senior Data and System Analyst to join our client's team and lead deep discovery, analysis, and documentation efforts across critical financial services platforms. This is a highly visible role where you'll connect business processes, data flows, and technology systems to help shape future-state solutions and modernization initiatives.

Requirements

• 8+ years of experience in business systems analysis, technical business analysis, data analysis, or solution discovery
• Strong financial services experience supporting brokerage cash, deposits, ACH, payments, cards, checks, or money movement functions
• Demonstrated experience reverse-engineering undocumented systems, processes, and integrations
• Deep understanding of systems integration concepts and enterprise application ecosystems
• Experience working with batch files, APIs, messaging platforms, event streams, and data movement processes
• Strong knowledge of data lineage, data flows, and information lifecycle management
• Experience writing user stories, acceptance criteria, and requirements documentation in Agile environments
• Excellent facilitation, interviewing, and stakeholder management skills
• Strong analytical and problem-solving capabilities
• Ability to work effectively in hybrid environments with regular onsite collaboration in Minneapolis
• Authorized to work in the United States

Nice To Haves

• Experience with banking and brokerage platforms
• Experience using Erwin or other enterprise data modeling tools
• Knowledge of data modeling methodologies and best practices
• SQL querying and data-profiling experience
• Experience supporting enterprise modernization, migration, or transformation initiatives
• Exposure to architecture documentation and solution design efforts
• Experience working with enterprise data governance and controls
• Certified Business Analysis Professional (CBAP) certification
• Agile, Scrum, Product Owner, or Business Analysis certifications
• Relevant data analysis, financial services, or system architecture certifications

Responsibilities

• Trace transactions from initiation through internal systems and downstream repositories
• Reverse-engineer existing business processes, integrations, and workflows to document current-state operations
• Interview stakeholders across operations, technology, product, vendor, and business functions to uncover processing requirements
• Observe users, applications, and operational procedures to gain a complete understanding of workflows
• Identify undocumented dependencies, manual workarounds, inefficiencies, and operational risks
• Document transaction types, systems of record, ownership structures, and reconciliation processes
• Analyze data movement across batch processes, APIs, message queues, event streams, and integrated platforms
• Map data lineage, transformations, data attributes, interfaces, and dependencies across applications
• Identify data quality concerns, latency issues, control gaps, and data loss risks
• Develop comprehensive inventories of interfaces, integrations, and source systems
• Create end-to-end process maps and workflow diagrams
• Produce system-context diagrams, interface inventories, and data flow documentation
• Develop current-state assessments and identify opportunities for future-state improvement
• Consolidate findings into centralized documentation repositories and knowledge assets
• Deliver actionable insights to product, architecture, and development teams
• Convert discovery findings into Agile-ready user stories and acceptance criteria
• Partner with product managers and development teams to refine business and system requirements
• Support backlog creation, prioritization, and requirements clarification activities
• Ensure business needs are accurately translated into technical solutions
• Facilitate knowledge transfer sessions for delivery teams and stakeholders
• Coordinate analysis activities across multiple analysts and functional domains
• Lead daily discovery stand-ups and progress reviews
• Facilitate workshops and stakeholder discussions to validate findings and requirements
• Build trusted relationships across business and technology organizations
• Present findings, recommendations, risks, and opportunities to leadership audiences

Benefits

• Competitive Compensation – You choose the model that works best for you, both with company-sponsored benefits! $155,000-$165,000 annually or $92-$102 per hour.
• Comprehensive Benefits for you and your dependents – Extensive Medical Plans, Dental, Vision, HSA with company contribution, company sponsored Life Insurance and Short / Long term disability insurance, a host of voluntary plans including legal, hospital, accident, pet wellness, and 401k with matching
• Paid Holidays and Paid Time Off
• Career Development and Advancement
• Strong Team Culture

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior