Sr Technical Business Analyst with Snowflake & Azure
About The Position
The Senior Business Systems Analyst – Business Unit (BU) is responsible for identifying opportunities for improving services and products to BECU members and processes internal to BECU through the use of technology, exhibiting a broad knowledge base of multiple applications and BECU business units in a highly collaborative environment. The SBSA accomplishes this through leveraging the functionality of applications, management of vendor relationships and maintenance of a professional working relationship with the end user of the applications. This role acts as a liaison between business and IT departments to translate business needs and objectives into technology solutions. The Senior Business Systems Analyst – BU works on complex projects/teams and acts as a mentor and lead to Business Analysts. Role incumbents will be self-motivated, display leadership and forward-thinking skills and be capable of operating at strategic and tactical levels.
Requirements
- Minimum of 8 years of experience working with business software applications required.
- Must have project methodologies, including waterfall and agile.
- Must have SQL and/or various relational database concepts and languages.
- Excellent troubleshooting skills to identify problems from a functional perspective, specifically when supporting end-user testing and training.
- Experience with multiple problem-solving methods and ability to use them as situationally appropriate.
- Ability to plan, organize, schedule, and implement projects and in accordance with BECU and industry project management methodologies.
- Advanced knowledge of SDLC practices.
- Ability to draw technical diagrams to represent existing application relationships as well as designs for future state applications or data/process flows.
- Proven ability to stay current with emerging technologies and new applications of existing technologies.
- Proven ability to manage solutions delivered in multiple programming languages and technical environments.
- Proficient verbal and written skills to effectively communicate in the English language.
- Experienced with multiple methods for creating and communicating strong Business Cases, including financial analysis, strategic alignment and risk analysis.
- Skilled in multiple methods for analyzing and validating data at the source (eg. SQL queries).
Nice To Haves
- Snowflake and Azure are a Must Have
- Ability to distill complex technical topics into understandable processes
Responsibilities
- Perform all responsibilities in accordance with BECU Competencies, compliance, regulatory and Information Protection requirements.
- Elicit, document and communicate business and user requirements and functional specifications.
- Lead team with design of technical solutions to meet business requirements.
- Translate functional specifications to software vendor requirements and coordinate vendor delivery.
- Lead test planning of technical solutions and support testing by facilitating resolution of identified bugs.
- Manage the installation of application patches, releases and enhancements on development, test, disaster recovery and production systems, following IT Change Control guidelines.
- Act as project manager for some enhancements and small projects.
- Consult with and advocate to multiple BECU business units outside of project efforts.
- Partner with the business units in documenting and prioritizing business objectives.
- Lead Business Readiness (Enterprise Analysis) efforts for complex projects/teams.
- Lead activities to identify people, process and system impacts of business objectives for all sizes of projects/teams.
- Assist Technical Analysts with application specific production support, as needed (4 th tier support).
- Coordinate the development and maintenance of manuals, procedures and other documentation required for the effective operations of the application support team.
- Maintain application upgrade and life-cycle activity roadmaps.
- Develop disaster recovery plans for business applications.
- Act as a mentor to and resource for less experienced Business Analysts.
- Develop and execute strategies for data management, including automation of data flows between systems and data required for external regulatory reporting.
- Perform additional duties, as assigned.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
Education Level
No Education Listed
