Systems Analyst VI

TX-HHSC-DSHS-DFPS • Austin, TX

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About The Position

The Systems Analyst VI position resides within the SSA / MES applications and product organization and serves as a senior leader responsible for application product and lifecycle management. This role provides strategic oversight for complex, multi‑stakeholder application products, ensuring capabilities are planned, prioritized, delivered, and evolved in alignment with business objectives, organizational priorities, and enterprise standards.

The position acts as a key liaison between business partners and delivery teams, translating operational needs, legislative or regulatory drivers, and funding considerations into clear product direction, roadmaps, and outcome‑focused delivery plans. Responsibilities include defining product scope and success measures, managing dependencies and risks, and ensuring application solutions deliver measurable value while remaining supportable, compliant, and aligned with long‑term enterprise direction.

The role works closely with cross‑functional stakeholders—including business leaders, technical teams, security, operations, and external vendors—to apply effective product governance, maintain delivery transparency, and support informed decision‑making. Through consistent oversight across product planning, delivery, change management, and quality review activities, the position promotes accountability, clarity, and high‑quality outcomes throughout the application lifecycle.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or Business Administration. Related work experience degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or Business Administration may substitute for the education on a year-for-year basis.
• 8–10 years of hands‑on IT experience, including product management, delivery, and oversight.
• Executive and legislative communication experience.
• Oversight of vendor‑based application delivery, including limited‑scope enhancements, performance assessment, risk management, and validation of contractual, regulatory, and quality expectations.
• Understanding of enterprise application capabilities and constraints, including the impact of architecture, integrations, and non‑automated processes on product design and maintainability.
• Executive‑level communication practices for conveying product health, risks, tradeoffs, and delivery status to technical and non‑technical leadership.
• Leadership of complex, multi‑stakeholder product initiatives, including dependency management, prioritization across competing demands, and delivery of measurable business outcomes.
• Product governance frameworks and enterprise delivery standards to ensure accountability, transparency, and compliance throughout the application lifecycle in regulated or public‑sector environments.
• Leadership and coordination of complex initiatives across internal teams and external partners
• Executive‑level communication of status, risks, impacts, and recommendations
• Planning, prioritization, and delivery of work across dependencies to achieve high‑quality outcomes
• Analytical and systems thinking to assess impacts, trade‑offs, and organizational priorities
• Stakeholder engagement that drives alignment, collaboration, and informed decision‑making
• Ability to lead and influence without direct authority
• Ability to operate independently with sound judgment, initiative, discretion, and consistent follow‑through
• Ability to maintain situational awareness across multiple efforts, identifying risks, dependencies, and emerging issues
• Ability to balance competing priorities while aligning work to goals, timelines, and resource constraints
• Ability to adapt communication and leadership approach based on audience and context

Nice To Haves

• Experience overseeing the delivering of solutions in heavily regulated industries or compliance‑driven environments
• Prior public sector experience
• Experience overseeing applications implemented as cloud‑native containerized systems, including microservices, event‑driven and serverless workloads, API gateways, and orchestration.
• Industry‑recognized product management or agile-related certifications are preferred, not required.

Responsibilities

• Lead Application Product Outcomes and Lifecycle Delivery
• Align Business Needs to Product Strategy and Roadmaps
• Provide Product Governance, Oversight, and Vendor Coordination
• Communicate Product Status, Risks, and Value to Leadership

Benefits

• comprehensive benefits package includes 100% paid employee health insurance for full-time eligible employees, a defined benefit pension plan, generous time off benefits, numerous opportunities for career advancement and more

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Number of Employees: 1-10 employees