Senior System Analyst - Dallas, United States - Apex Systems

Description

Need to have:

• Experience with integration projects
• Experience with APIs and legacy .NET platform
• Strong working knowledge of REST and SOAP services
• Working experience with API tools like Mabl, SOAP UI
• Needs to be able to talk with developers and architects about requirements
• Platform agnostic is great a good BSA will be able to succeed in any environment
• Strong documentation skills
• Good leadership qualities self-starter, able to jump in

Day to day:

• Documentation - context diagrams, system design flows, user stories, etc.
• Bridge between documenting what the business wants and what the technical team needs to accomplish
• Collaboration with Product Owners
• May use Kafka in the future

Job Summary/Description:

This position will be part of DaRT Sales, Services and Marketing Technology (SSMT) building and managing Schwab Representative facing technologies. The DaRT-SSMT Business System Analysts are dedicated to collaboratively understanding business needs and guiding them into robust technical solutions that not only meet business objectives but are also reusable and scalable. They improve delivery outcomes through seamless cross-domain partnership and collaboration with the technology teams. Ideal candidates enjoy fast-paced environments, thrive under ambiguity, and embrace change passionately.

Skillset:

• Identify, prioritize, and deliver tactical long-term solutions that meet the business objective and maximize business value
• Partner with Application Product Owners to manage the business and stakeholder expectations within the defined program scope, vision, and release.
• Lead cross domain process design workstreams and develop comprehensive documentation for a successful delivery of the project.
• Ability to translate larger project vision and business objective into deployable user stories.
• Act as a liaison between the business stakeholders, product owners and the technical team to effectively articulate the business deliverable.
• Work closely with the technical architects to create and maintain business process/architecture documentation
• Active participant in planning quarterly deliverables by collaborating with the cross domain and integration product owners and delivering a roadmap as an output of that collaboration.
• Ability to document and facilitate risk and dependency management with cross team partners.

Required Skills: Must Have

• Proven track record of delivering medium- large scale application integration projects
• Detailed understanding of various data integration patterns; Real Time APIs, event-based architecture, and batch processing
• Working knowledge of .NET application platform
• Strong working knowledge of REST and SOAP services
• Working experience with API tools like Mabl, SOAP UI.
• Hands on experience in relational database SQL, creating end-to-end data dictionary, JIRA (and confluence)
• Hands on experience in creating stories that are user facing UI related and tie them back to the user experience objective/requirement.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills
• Strong interpersonal skills to juggle multiple roles and simultaneous projects
• Experience working in an Agile environment for technical integration teams
• Prior Financial Industry/Brokerage experience preferred (nice to have)

Education and Qualifications:

• Bachelors degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or related field OR met years of experience
• 10+ years of business systems analysis experience
• 5+ years in business architecture or solution architecture
• 6-10 years of legacy ecosystem experience with primary focus on platform integrations, APIs and ETL technologies
• Strong analytical skills with the ability to always think of the big picture.
• Passion for data integration with ability to articulate benefits and downsides of various integration patterns