Technical Business Systems Analyst

Description

The company is a consulting firm that uses technology to help clients reach their goals. Its clients include Fortune 100 companies, mid-sized enterprises and government agencies across the country.

You will work alongside business and technical stakeholders to shape complex solutions, guide design, and confirm that what gets built meets real business needs.

Projects range from custom digital products to large integration, modernization and enterprise transformation work that spans several systems, technologies and business lines.

The role suits someone who works between business and technology, is comfortable with unclear problems, and approaches work like a consultant. You will be hands-on from start to finish, helping teams turn vague problems into scalable, maintainable solutions.

Responsibilities

• Learn a client's business, processes and technology landscape quickly so you can advise them and act as a go-to partner for stakeholders.
• Contribute across cross-functional teams from discovery through delivery and validation.
• Gather needs through interviews, workshops and collaborative sessions, and clarify what the solution should do.
• Turn business goals into detailed functional and technical requirements that feed design, build, testing and release.
• Work with architects, engineers and product teams on design, covering data models, API and integration needs, interface definitions and system workflows.
• Examine current data structures, data quality and business effects, and define how data should support the future state.
• Record data mappings, business rules, system interactions and upstream and downstream dependencies for complex integrations.
• Connect business and technical views so solutions are useful, easy to use, scalable and maintainable.
• Review current processes and systems, define the target state with stakeholders, and run gap analysis to propose options and recommendations.
• Write and refine epics, user stories, acceptance criteria and backlog items within an Agile team.
• Coordinate and support integration, system and user acceptance testing, including requirements traceability and validation.
• Spot risks, dependencies, assumptions and impacts across processes, systems and integrations.
• Explain ideas clearly to technical teams, business stakeholders and executives, adjusting your message to each audience.

Requirements

• 3-10+ years working as a Business Systems Analyst, Technical Architect or similar role on IT initiatives and large enterprise solution delivery.
• Consulting experience, or a proven ability to work in a client-facing, advisory role.
• Hands-on work on multi-system implementations, enterprise applications and complex integrations.
• Experience working alongside software development teams across the full delivery lifecycle.
• Experience producing process flows, data flows, sequence diagrams, system context diagrams or other visuals that explain business and technical solutions.
• Experience defining business rules, writing user stories, setting acceptance criteria and managing requirements in Agile settings.
• Solid grasp of enterprise integration patterns, APIs, data flows and modern cloud architectures.
• Ability to write and run SQL queries for analysis, troubleshooting, validation and testing.
• Experience with data analysis, data mapping and requirements traceability across several systems.
• Strong written and spoken communication, with the ability to work with both technical and non-technical people.
• Working knowledge of delivery and collaboration tools such as JIRA, Confluence, Azure DevOps or similar.
• Bachelor's degree in Business Administration, Computer Science, Management Information Systems or a related field, or an equivalent mix of education and experience.
• Preferred: experience supporting digital product development and product-focused delivery models.
• Preferred: experience in regulated industries such as energy, utilities, infrastructure, financial services, healthcare or the public sector.
• Preferred: knowledge of Microsoft Dynamics 365, Power Platform, Salesforce or other enterprise business platforms.
• Preferred: experience with cloud modernization, application modernization or enterprise transformation.
• Preferred: familiarity with system architecture concepts, object-oriented design or software engineering practices.
• Preferred: certifications such as Microsoft Dynamics 365, Power Platform, Scrum, Product Owner, CBAP, PMI-PBA or related credentials.

Conditions

Hybrid schedule with regular onsite visits each week, based on what each engagement requires.

You must be available to work onsite at a client location or a company office when requested. Remote work is allowed when it fits both company and client needs.

No visa transfer or sponsorship is offered for this position. You must be authorized to work directly for any US employer without sponsorship.

The company is an equal opportunity employer committed to equality, inclusion and fairness.

Benefits

• Base pay range is $90,000-$180,000, set by skills, total relevant experience, job level and geographic location. The company follows equal pay practices, including under Virginia's Transparency Law where it applies.
• Performance-based bonus opportunities.
• Three medical plan options (PPO and HDHP), plus dental and vision coverage.
• Company-paid basic life and AD&D insurance, and short- and long-term disability cover.
• 401(k) with a company match.
• Cell phone stipend.
• Competitive paid time off.
• Paid leave for birth or family bonding.
• Adoption assistance.
• Training and certification opportunities with expense reimbursement.
• Team-building and social events.
• A mentor program supporting career growth.
• This list of benefits is not exhaustive.