Business Systems Analyst - Remote
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POSITION SUMMARY:
The Business Systems Analyst is responsible for defining, analyzing and documenting software application requirements and data to ensure cohesive software application and system designs in the IT Ecosystem. The systems analyst will play a central role in solving interesting technical challenges by documenting, defining, designing, deploying and troubleshooting key platforms, applications, and infrastructure and is always thinking about reliability, scalability, resilience, security and performance. The Systems Analyst will have in-depth knowledge of the enterprise ecosystem and how each application interacts with another application to address a business need. This is a remote position (US). #LI-Remote
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ACCOUNTABILITIES:
System Process and Workflow Management:
- Evaluates, and analyses technical processes, workflows, data flows, integration patterns, data models defined while building system requirements and ensures efficiencies are created during the software development life cycle of the application/system.
- Identifies current state of processes and associated systems, elicits useful and inefficient or ineffective attributes of process and software designs, documents models of the processes and facilitates stakeholder groups to consensus regarding new software designs.
- Diagrams business processes at different levels (Level 2, 3) and enterprise models using tools such as Visio, Power Designer.
- Analyzes and depicts the structures of systems, actors or processes using behavioral and structural UML diagrams such as activity diagrams, use case diagrams, interaction overview diagrams, state machines, communication diagrams, sequence and timing diagrams, class, objects, component, context, profile diagrams.
System Requirements Planning, Elicitation, Analysis and Monitoring:
- Elicits and analyses system requirements across the enterprise and represents system functional, non-functional requirements using various tools and methods such as data flow diagrams, context diagrams, use case modeling, sequence diagrams, state machines.
- Collaborate with Product Owners, Solution Architects, Developers, and Business analysts in ensuring system requirements are documented and covered by documented system requirements and managed in a central document management system.
- Conducts analysis by focusing on defining the future and transition states needed to the software/system. Analyzes current state, defines future state, assesses risk and defines change strategy.
- Ensures systems analysis deliverables are documented with clarity and delivered on time.
- Ensure regulatory and security requirements are addressed or not violated by the recommended technical solution.
Data and Integration Analysis:
- Comprehensive analysis and research of business requirements and corresponding systems requirements related to data.
- Analyzing and defining data requirements needed to support the business processes including reviewing data architecture models.
- Documenting the types and structure of the business data (logical modeling) required to fulfill a requirement.
REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS:
Knowledge of:
- Knowledge of enterprise frameworks, systems integration, software development and testing methodologies is required.
- Software Designs, Software Architecture, SQL (Structured Query Language), Object Oriented Design (OOD) and Modeling (OOM), UML and/or BPMN, Project Management, Agile, Software Development Life Cycle, RDBMS, Oracle SQL and MS SQL Databases, Sequence Diagrams, Data Mapping and Data Analysis, Business Process Management, systems requirements elicitation, use case analysis, mind mapping, business modeling, data flow diagraming, business rules analysis, business capability analysis.
- Power Designer, Any BPMN Tools, Atlassian Suite (Confluence, Jira), SharePoint, Microsoft Office Suite (Excel, Visio, PowerPoint), Microsoft Visual Studio Team Services (Azure).
- Formal modeling experience (UML and/or BPMN) including, but not limited to business process modeling, system use case development, class and object modeling, state modeling, activity modeling and context modeling.
- Technical work experience in a software development environment, which included experience performing systems analysis for software development on proprietary software applications.
- Investigating potential system and/or reporting issues to identify the root cause and determine possible solutions by collaborating with software developers and vendors, IT staffs and subject matter experts.
- Using model-based representations that can be adjusted as required to collect, aggregate or disaggregate complex and conflicting information about the business.
Ability to:
- The ability to act as liaison conveying information needs of the business to IT and data constraints to the business; applies equal conveyance regarding business strategy and IT strategy, business processes and workflow automation, business initiatives and IT initiatives, and benefit realization and service delivery.
- To define and analyze requirements using Object Oriented Analysis and Design principles.
- To explain technical details and the ability to ask questions and challenge ideas, requests, business needs to ensure business value is delivered.
- Team player able to work effectively at all levels of an organization with the ability to influence others to move toward consensus.
- Possess strong situational analysis, analytical thinking and decision-making abilities.
- To communicate appropriately at all levels of the organization; this includes excellent written and verbal communications, as well as visualizations.
Education and/or Experience:
- Bachelor's degree in business administration with an emphasis on information technology or a related field that includes software development, or equivalent related experience and/or education.
- A minimum of 2-5 years of experience as a systems analyst, data analyst, solution architect, or software engineer.
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS: (Additional qualifications that may make a person even more effective in the role, but are not required for consideration)
- IIBA designation of Certified Business Analysis Professional (CBAP) or Certification of Competency in Business Analysis (CCBA) is preferred.
- Knowledge of technical standards used in healthcare (HL7, FHIR)
- Experience with regulatory oversight is helpful.
- Strong presentation and facilitation skills including experience applying requirements elicitation techniques is preferred.
DEI COMMITMENT:
As part of our values, we are committed to supporting diversity, equity, and inclusion at NMDP. We actively celebrate colleagues' different abilities, sexual orientation, ethnicity, faith, and gender. Everyone is welcome and supported in their development at all stages in their journey with us.
BENEFITS:
NMDP offers regular, full-time employees medical, dental, vision, life and disability, accident/critical illness/hospital, well-being, legal, identity theft and pet benefits. Retirement, paid time off/holidays, leave and incentive plans are also offered to eligible employees. Please reference this link for more information: NMDP Benefit Information