Senior IT Systems Analyst Job Description

Senior IT Systems Analyst Job Description

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Senior IT systems analyst provides a primary point of contact for supporting the applications and coordinating all change functions in support of one or more specific business processes or areas.

Senior IT Systems Analyst Duties & Responsibilities

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Together with IT management, determines best mix of development, interfacing applications, third party vendor solutions to meet business requirements and project objectives
Responsible for working with all levels of the business and the development team to establish, promote, and enforce architectural guidelines assist in the implementation and the resolution of problems for existing applications and requests
Creating datasets in MS Access or SQL that pulls data in from multiple sources
Utilize expertise of application features to recommend solutions that meet business requirements and resolve questions related to process changes impacting SG&A applications
Develop and maintain documentation of SG&A applications, including process workflow diagrams, detailed business requirements and reports
Design the best technical solution to solve business requirements and ensures the quality of the solution
Responsible for building functional and technical specifications to meet business requirements
Administration and development of in-house treasury management systems including IT2 Treasury Management System, SWIFT, Bloomberg, Exigis, FXAll
Assesses, researches, analyses and documents sponsor/stakeholder needs in accordance with SCRUM, defining requirements with User Stories
Solve application incidents, analyze issues and identify their source

Senior IT Systems Analyst Qualifications

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Licensing or Certifications for Senior IT Systems Analyst

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Education for Senior IT Systems Analyst

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Employers hiring for the senior IT systems analyst job most commonly would prefer for their future employee to have a relevant degree such as Bachelor's and Master's Degree in Computer Science, Business, Education, Information Systems, Engineering, Information Technology, Technical, Technology, Graduate, Business/Administration

Skills for Senior IT Systems Analyst

Desired skills for senior IT systems analyst include:

Health Care Industry and related business functions
DB2 databases
Processes and services
SQL
ASSET programming languages
Applications
Infor’s BPCS
Infor’s LX
Primary and Clinical Care operations and functional models
RGPLE

Desired experience for senior IT systems analyst includes:

Experience in leading multiple streams to produce Systems Requirement Document
Experience in leading SRS review walkthroughs with lines-of-business and senior management
Ability to raise requirements gaps by understanding systems requirement challenges
Ability to be decisive and be able to articulate trade-off's in proposed solutions
Ability to validate / confirm technical architecture and systems design decisions based upon created SRS
High aptitude for interpreting technical documentation authoring or updating documents including help desk run books and training documentation

Senior IT Systems Analyst Examples

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Senior IT Systems Analyst Job Description

Job Description Example
Our growing company is searching for experienced candidates for the position of senior IT systems analyst. If you are looking for an exciting place to work, please take a look at the list of qualifications below.
Responsibilities for senior IT systems analyst
  • Establish project plans including resource and timeline requirements
  • Develop detailed user requirement documents, process flows and other documentation to highlight business requirements
  • Code, debug, and test application programs utilizing JAVA and web based programming tools that integrate data capture, device interaction, and web services
  • Develop test procedures, test scenarios, and test cases
  • Assists in the development of project cost and benefit estimates to establish project worth including the development of alternative considerations
  • Communicate and collaborate with developers and subject matter experts to establish the technical and functional
  • Daily life as a System Analyst for Clinical IT may include examining and clarifying business requirements with Business Analyst or Business resources
  • Partner with the business units to develop an understanding of their business processes, assess end user needs and evaluate proposed system related projects
  • Provide technical leadership to develop product roadmaps
  • Provide ongoing system support, make decisions that best resolves product related issues and appropriately escalate issues that require IT and/or business unit management involvement
Qualifications for senior IT systems analyst
  • Experience in execution of all phases of the SDLC, including requirements gathering, writing technical specifications, system configuration, prototyping application design, build/configuration, testing, production rollout, maintenance and related training
  • Must exhibit a strong process management & business orientation
  • 8-10 years relevant experience or Graduate degree and 6-8 years of relevant experience
  • Completely proficient/fluent in written and spoken English
  • Ability to perform all of the activities described under the “Responsibilities” section
  • Create testing plans for implemented software and provide training on software changes when appropriate
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Senior IT Systems Analyst Job Description

Job Description Example
Our growing company is searching for experienced candidates for the position of senior IT systems analyst. If you are looking for an exciting place to work, please take a look at the list of qualifications below.
Responsibilities for senior IT systems analyst
  • Utilize Product Methodology that ensures proper business, technical and operational requirements are defined, built, tested and deployed
  • Establish and maintain beneficial working relationships with multiple areas of People, Payroll, IT, Project Management, Enterprise Architecture, other business organizations (including VPs, directors, managers, and team points of contact)
  • Document issues and providing supporting documentation to the organization to illustrate current state, problems
  • In this role you will lead and conduct functional business reviews with stakeholders, document business requirements, analyze issues and present and recommend business solutions that meet sponsor/stakeholder needs
  • Work closely with members of IT, Sales, Investment, Credit, Private Banking and Wealth Management teams
  • Responsible for advanced business process and system analysis, research and problem solving skills to define innovative technology solutions in cooperation with stakeholders, third party vendors and project team to meet business objectives
  • Partners with internal IT business leaders, colleagues, vendors and other stakeholders to identify information and process requirements, gaps in existing capabilities and defines opportunities to build systems based on current and future application platforms that improve the business processes and accelerate critical business strategies
  • Document business, functional, data requirements for projects and change requests
  • Define Key Business Elements
  • Integrate with various other development and support (Data Governance – Metadata, Lineage, Data Quality, Data Provisioning ) teams to provide guidance
Qualifications for senior IT systems analyst
  • Three plus years’ experience working with Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012
  • Experience generating system and/or custom reports and workflows in Dynamics AX
  • Experience developing documents for business requirements and process workflow diagrams
  • Strong technical aptitude and the ability to learn new processes and systems quickly
  • Must be able to work independently in a team, effectively manage multiple priorities, and solve complex problems
  • Excellent organizational skills with strong analytical and quantitative background
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Senior IT Systems Analyst Job Description

Job Description Example
Our innovative and growing company is looking to fill the role of senior IT systems analyst. We appreciate you taking the time to review the list of qualifications and to apply for the position. If you don’t fill all of the qualifications, you may still be considered depending on your level of experience.
Responsibilities for senior IT systems analyst
  • Support and test moderately complex information systems and develop adequate error management functionality within assigned technology and/or applications
  • Take ownership of support activities for assigned applications and ensure secondary resources are defined and are well trained to support the application
  • Provide guidance in designing UAT test scenarios and test cases for related changes
  • Participate in production of testing schedule and perform validations
  • Illicit, analyze, validate and manage technical requirements definition, flows and deliverables for projects
  • Develop and manage an overarching project testing program
  • Develop, maintain and mature a robust and collaborative relationship with our RCT business partners
  • Participates in technical meetings with Business Analysts and Developers
  • Typically involved in the project-planning phase of a computer system and provides work estimates
  • Reports status, progress and concerns in a proactive, consistent and accurate manner to senior team members and to the IT Project Manager directly or via the Testing Lead
Qualifications for senior IT systems analyst
  • Bachelor's Degree (or higher) OR High School Diploma/GED with 2+ years of systems analyst
  • 2+ years experience troubleshooting Windows operating systems
  • Data analysis focused
  • Solid written and verbal communication and negotiation skills
  • 5+ years’ experience working in a Linux Virtualized Environment
  • Familiarity with the Community and State business is preferred required
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Our company is hiring for a senior IT systems analyst. Thank you in advance for taking a look at the list of responsibilities and qualifications. We look forward to reviewing your resume.
Responsibilities for senior IT systems analyst
  • Understand industry issues and trends, and present technical solutions that provide value to our business partners
  • Analyze business strategy and user needs, document specifications, and translate business objectives into proper system requirement specifications
  • Participate in defining road maps and strategy
  • Focus on continuous improvement for both the business process and the underlying technologies and system support
  • Take ownership of system development, QA and acceptance testing of projects
  • Provide end-to-end IT coordination for all IT related activities
  • Minimize application support load by refining error management & moving initial triage to the 1st level support staff
  • Proactively maintain an understanding of the business processes
  • Work closely with other Business Units to identify and deliver Enterprise value
  • Ensure delivery against agreed upon SLAs and overall service delivery of operational or project activities
Qualifications for senior IT systems analyst
  • The 5 years of experience must include experience coding, debugging, and testing application programs
  • Bachelor’s degree in Business, Information System, Health Administration, related field or equivalent work experience
  • Ability to problem solve and apply critical thinking to resolve business problems
  • Bachelor’s degree in computer science or related field (4 additional years of comparable work experience beyond the required years of experience may be substituted in lieu of a bachelor’s degree)
  • Bachelor's degree and four years of work experience or Associate's degree and six years of work experience
  • Degree must be in Information Technology, Business or related field (MIS, Computer Science, Business Management)
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Senior IT Systems Analyst Job Description

Job Description Example
Our innovative and growing company is hiring for a senior IT systems analyst. If you are looking for an exciting place to work, please take a look at the list of qualifications below.
Responsibilities for senior IT systems analyst
  • Support integrations to other internal and vendor supported applications
  • Use SQL Reporting Services to create reports for internal groups
  • Manages implementation of changes in applications development, maintenance and system standards
  • Manages important projects
  • Provide support, consultation and training to UTO Deskside teams and their customers
  • Monitor and maintain the UTO Deskside administrative environment
  • Identify improvement opportunities by reviewing business processes, metrics and internal/external feedback on issues
  • Collaborate with various teams to develop technical solutions and process changes to improve efficiency, security and reduction of errors
  • Maintain a high degree of technical knowledge and expertise on a group of technology products or on a technology platform through research, vendor presentations, and training
  • Participate on new and ongoing initiatives that require UTO Deskside involvement
Qualifications for senior IT systems analyst
  • Experience in Requirements review, Business model review and business processes review
  • Work experience must include requirements gathering activities
  • Systems and infrastructure knowledge of the application supported and the technology that supports the application
  • Knowledge of software development methodologies and compliance/regulatory standards
  • Proficiency in Web Development using Python, PHP, Oracle ADF
  • Familiarity with JSON data exchange

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