Business System Analyst (Governance)

Eliassen Group; Augusta (ME); Remote; USD 72,000 - 85,000; Full time

Job summary

Eliassen Group is seeking a Business System Analyst (Governance) to work remotely with our financial services clients in the United States. You will partner with Enterprise Architecture, Engineering, Security, and Risk teams to assess architectures, data flows, and integration patterns, driving modernization and governance improvements.

The role emphasizes analyzing current-state architectures, ensuring adherence to standards, and delivering governance artifacts, metrics, and reporting to

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree with required experience or equivalent; enterprise tech governance knowledge.
• Experience partnering with architecture, engineering, risk, security, and audit teams.
• Comfort evaluating architectures, data flows, and integration patterns.

Responsibilities

• Evaluate current and target-state architectures for alignment with tech direction.
• Analyze interfaces, data flows, and dependencies to identify risks and improvements.
• Participate in architecture reviews and provide recommendations on scalability and security.
• Develop governance artifacts like capability maps and process flows.
• Measure governance effectiveness with defined metrics and reporting.

Skills

Enterprise architecture

Governance

Analytics

Business analysis

Risk management

Education

Bachelor's Degree + 6 years experience in Systems Support/Analytics

High School Diploma + 10 years experience in Systems Support/Analytics

Tools

Power BI

APIs

Cloud solutions

Middleware

Job description

Business System Analyst (Governance)

Anywhere

Type: Contract

Category: Business Analysis

Industry: Financial Services

Workplace Type: Remote

Standard Hours: Open

Description

Remote

Our client seeks an analytical technical expert and trusted advisor for enterprise systems, enterprise integration, and technology governance. The role will partner with Enterprise Architecture, Engineering, Infrastructure, Security, Development, Risk, and Operations teams. The position will assess architectural hygiene, resiliency, scalability, maintainability, and supportability of technology solutions while identifying risks, technical debt, integration complexity, and opportunities for modernization.

Rate: $52.16 to $62.16/hr. w2

Responsibilities

• Partner with Enterprise Architecture and Engineering teams to evaluate current-state and target-state architectures to ensure alignment with strategic technology direction.
• Analyze application architectures, system interfaces, APIs, data flows, and infrastructure dependencies to identify design risks and improvement opportunities.
• Participate in architecture reviews and solution design sessions and provide recommendations on scalability, resiliency, security, maintainability, and operational supportability.
• Develop and maintain business capability mappings, solution context diagrams, process flows, and system interaction models.
• Assess the technical impact of proposed changes across applications, platforms, integrations, and business processes.
• Ensure initiatives adhere to enterprise technology standards, architecture principles, information security requirements, and risk management frameworks.
• Partner with Technology Risk, Information Security, Compliance, and Audit teams to identify and mitigate technology-related risks.
• Evaluate process and system controls and recommend improvements to strengthen governance and operational effectiveness.
• Support governance forums and decision-making bodies through development of analysis, recommendations, and reporting.
• Establish, maintain, and enforce governance standards, policies, and best practices across the enterprise.
• Support the development and maintenance of enterprise governance frameworks, reference development documentation, and technical user guidelines.
• Measure and report on governance effectiveness through defined metrics and key performance indicators.
• Assess technology risks from an architectural perspective, including application obsolescence, integration complexity, infrastructure dependencies, security exposures, and operational resilience.
• Evaluate adherence to enterprise architecture standards, cloud strategies, technology lifecycle requirements, and engineering best practices.
• Challenge solution designs and implementation approaches when technical, operational, or architectural risks are identified.
• Serve as a trusted advisor for business and technology stakeholders regarding enterprise systems, processes, and capabilities.
• Identify opportunities to improve operational efficiency, user experience, process automation, and data quality.
• Coordinate with technical stakeholders to resolve complex issues and implement enhancements.
• Drive continuous improvement initiatives using data, stakeholder feedback, and industry best practices.
• Lead the assessment of complex business and technology challenges by partnering across business units, technology teams, risk functions, and third-party providers.
• Analyze current-state processes, controls, systems, and dependencies to identify root causes and develop sustainable solutions.
• Drive end-to-end solution delivery and coordinate internal and external resources to achieve desired business outcomes.
• Facilitate decision-making among stakeholders with competing priorities and requirements.
• Develop business cases, implementation roadmaps, and success metrics for strategic initiatives.
• Analyze and define business, operational, application, and technology performance data to identify trends, risks, opportunities, and areas for improvement.
• Define, develop, and maintain metrics, KPIs, Power BI dashboards, and reporting that measure governance effectiveness, technology adoption, operational health, and business outcomes.
• Evaluate middleware platforms, APIs, messaging technologies, and integration patterns for adherence to enterprise standards and architectural principles.
• Establish and maintain governance standards for middleware services, event streams, messaging platforms, and integration technologies.
• Partner with business, technology, and SRE teams to establish SLO and SLI performance metrics and success criteria for initiatives and solutions.
• Assess service-to-service communication, event-driven architectures, messaging solutions, and integration dependencies to identify operational and architectural risks.

Experience Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree and 6 years of experience in Systems Support, Analytics, or Operational Support OR High School Diploma or GED and 10 years of experience in Systems Support, Analytics, or Operational Support.
• 6+ years supporting enterprise technology solutions, application portfolios, or technology transformation initiatives.
• Experience partnering directly with Solution Architects, Enterprise Architects, Engineering, Infrastructure, and Security teams.
• Experience evaluating system integrations, APIs, application dependencies, cloud solutions, and enterprise platforms.
• Experience supporting technology governance, architecture review boards, or technology risk assessments.
• Banking or financial services technology experience preferred.
• Experience evaluating application architectures, integrations, APIs, middleware platforms, data flows, and infrastructure dependencies.

Education Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree and 6 years of experience in Systems Support, Analytics, or Operational Support OR High School Diploma or GED and 10 years of experience in Systems Support, Analytics, or Operational Support.

Recruitment Transparency Notice

Eliassen Group values transparency in our recruitment practices. Please be advised that Eliassen Group utilizes artificial intelligence (AI) tools as part of its initial application screening and hiring process. You may receive email and SMS notifications from the Eliassen Virtual Recruiting Team ([e-mail], 781-808-2924) inviting you to complete a brief voice screening as part of your application process. These tools assist our hiring teams in different ways, including but not limited to, assistance in reviewing application materials to help identify candidates whose qualifications most closely match the requirements of the position. All AI-assisted evaluations and responses are reviewed by human recruiters before any hiring decisions are made. The use of AI in our process is intended to support fairness, efficiency, and consistency, and Eliassen Group takes measures to prevent bias or discrimination in connection with its hiring practices. By proceeding, you acknowledge, agree, and consent to Eliassen Group’s use of these tools, including AI tools, as part of the application and hiring process.

Skills, experience, and other compensable factors will be considered when determining pay rate. The pay range provided in this posting reflects a W2 hourly rate; other employment options may be available that may result in pay outside of the provided range.

W2 employees of Eliassen Group who are regularly scheduled to work 30 or more hours per week are eligible for the following benefits: medical (choice of 3 plans), dental, vision, pre-tax accounts, other voluntary benefits including life and disability insurance, 401(k) with match, and sick time if required by law in the worked-in state/locality.

Eliassen Group is a strategic consulting firm that helps organizations reach further and achieve more through our technology, business advisory, and life sciences solutions. For nearly 40 years, we have combined exceptional people, deep domain expertise, and intelligent capabilities to expand our clients’ capacity and accelerate meaningful outcomes. We are driven by a purpose to positively impact the lives of our employees, clients, consultants, and the communities we serve.

Eliassen is committed to building a diverse and inclusive team from a variety of backgrounds, perspectives, and skills. We are an Equal Opportunity and Aff…