Sr Business Systems Analyst

loanDepot•Irvine, CA

27d•$99,000 - $136,500

About The Position

The Sr Business Systems Analyst contributes to the Business Intelligence group by improving information management, business processes, physical process controls, and workflows to support operational reporting and analytics. The role explores, documents, and designs ways to meet business requirements through process improvements, data repository development, or user interface development that improve corporate performance. It involves working with internal teams to understand requirements, identify data sources, cleanse and standardize data, and match datasets, while addressing challenges in data sourcing, integration, capture, reporting, analytics, and statistics.

Requirements

Experience serving as a Product Owner, Lead Business Analyst, or in a similar role within an Agile delivery environment.
Proficiency with modern productivity, collaboration, analytics, and AI-enabled tools to improve requirements management, documentation, analysis, decision-making, and business efficiency.
Experience using AI-assisted technologies such as Microsoft Copilot, ChatGPT, or similar tools to enhance business analysis, process design, documentation, research, and stakeholder communication.
Ability to quickly learn and adopt emerging technologies, automation capabilities, and data-driven solutions.
Advanced working knowledge of SQL.
Proficiency with the MS Office product suite.
Bachelor’s degree in Information Science or Computer Science preferred.
At least 3 years of experience in business systems analysis, requirements documentation, data structure design or specification, and test case development.

Nice To Haves

Experience with Salesforce CRM, SSAS, SSIS, SSRS, Azure Cloud, Snowflake, Alteryx, Tableau, Power BI, or other data management tools.
Mortgage experience is highly preferred.
Bachelor’s degree in Information Science or Computer Science.

Responsibilities

Own and prioritize the backlog for assigned initiatives, ensuring requirements align with business objectives and delivery priorities.
Partner with business stakeholders, Product, and Engineering teams to define requirements, refine user stories, support UAT, and drive successful delivery.
Engage with business users to analyze needs and gather and document business and solution requirements using best practices.
Conduct business process analysis, needs assessments, and preliminary cost-benefit analyses to align technology solutions with business initiatives; evaluate and document requirements, translate them into system requirement specifications, and support implementation.
Formulate and define systems scope and objectives based on end-user needs and knowledge of business systems, applications, data architecture, and industry requirements.
Work across business organizations to create and maintain an integrated approach to data flow, information management, and report and dashboard deliverables for end users.
Work with technology architects and developers to design integrated solutions across company systems and ensure data requirements, migrations, and standards are understood and implemented.
Understand the business implications of technical solutions and assist in defining, designing, and documenting technology solutions for future business needs.
Update project documentation when change requests are approved during development to ensure quality and traceability.
Create, review, and deliver end-user documentation, including user guides, process flow charts, and training materials, and provide training for new business solutions.
Work with users to select or create scenarios for testing results against project specifications and support end-user acceptance testing, including validating resulting datasets.
Apply research, analytical, and interpretation skills to solve problems of diverse scopes and develop solutions to moderately complex problems.
Screen, evaluate, reconcile, and report data, and identify data integrity issues.
Exercise judgment and initiative in resolving problems and making choices, decisions, or recommendations.