Dairy Grants Systems Analyst - Hybrid

Horizon Organic Dairy, LL; Broomfield (CO); Hybrid; USD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Horizon Organic Dairy, LL is seeking a hands-on Business Systems Analyst – Dairy USDA Grant Process to support, enhance, and oversee technology solutions used to manage dairy grants and farm relationships. This role serves as the technical owner and primary liaison among business stakeholders, IT teams, developers, contractors, and software vendors.

The analyst translates business requirements into practical technical solutions, configures low-code apps, manages integrations, and provides

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Management Information Systems, Business, Data Analytics, or a related field preferred.
• 3-7 years of experience in business systems analysis, application development, low-code platforms, systems integration, or a related technical role.
• Experience configuring, customizing, or developing solutions with Airtable, Jotform, Quickbase, ArcGIS.
• Experience designing or supporting APIs and system integrations.
• Experience working knowledge of REST APIs, JSON, authentication methods, data mapping, error handling, and integration monitoring.
• Strong understanding of the software development lifecycle, including requirements, design, development, testing, deployment, and production support.
• Ability to translate business needs into functional and technical specifications.
• Ability to manage multiple priorities and work independently in a fast-paced environment.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to work effectively with technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Partner with Dairy Grants, Farm Relations, Finance, Legal, and other stakeholders to understand processes, pain points, controls, and technology requirements.
• Translate business requirements into functional specifications, technical requirements, process flows, data models, and user stories.
• Evaluate existing processes and recommend opportunities for simplification, automation, integration, and improved data quality.
• Assess the impact of proposed changes across applications, integrations, data, reporting, security, and support processes.
• Maintain a clear backlog of incidents, enhancements, technical debt, and project priorities.
• Configure, customize, enhance, and support applications built with Airtable, Jotform, Quickbase, and ArcGIS.
• Develop and maintain forms, workflows, business rules, validations, dashboards, reports, permissions, notifications, and automated processes.
• Support custom-built web applications and services used throughout the dairy grant lifecycle.
• Create and maintain APIs and integrations among grant-management applications, enterprise systems, data platforms, and external services.
• Troubleshoot application, data, workflow, and integration issues and implement sustainable solutions.
• Identify opportunities to reduce manual work, duplicate data entry, process delays, and data-quality issues.
• Oversee custom software development delivered by internal teams, contractors, and external vendors.
• Participate in solution design and ensure that proposed architectures are secure, scalable, maintainable, and aligned with business requirements.
• Review functional and technical designs, development estimates, release plans, test results, and technical documentation.
• Ensure custom solutions follow established software development, security, testing, deployment, and change-management practices.
• Monitor vendor performance, delivery quality, budgets, risks, dependencies, and project timelines.
• Minimize reliance on individual developers by ensuring appropriate documentation, code management, knowledge transfer, and support coverage.
• Develop test scenarios and perform functional, integration, regression, and data-validation testing.
• Coordinate and support User Acceptance Testing with business stakeholders.
• Validate that solutions meet functional requirements, data-quality standards, security expectations, and business controls.
• Support release planning, production deployment, cutover, stabilization, and post-implementation reviews.
• Maintain requirements, system configurations, process documentation, test evidence, support procedures, and training materials.
• Provide day-to-day application support, including incident investigation, root-cause analysis, issue resolution, and stakeholder communication.
• Monitor applications, integrations, workflows, and data exchanges to identify failures or performance concerns.
• Coordinate with vendors and support partners to resolve complex technical issues.
• Analyze recurring incidents and implement corrective and preventive improvements.
• Develop training materials and provide guidance to business users and support teams.
• Ensure solutions remain reliable, supportable, cost-effective, and aligned with evolving business needs.

Skills

Experience: 3-7 yrs

APIs & Integrations

Strong communication

Problem solving

Education

Bachelor’s degree in IT / CS / MIS / Business / Data Analytics

Tools

Airtable

Jotform

Quickbase

ArcGIS

Job description

Horizon Organic Dairy, LL is seeking a hands-on Business Systems Analyst – Dairy USDA Grant Process to support, enhance, and oversee technology solutions used to manage dairy grants and farm relationships. This role serves as the technical owner and primary liaison among business stakeholders, IT teams, developers, contractors, and software vendors.

The analyst translates business requirements into practical technical solutions, configures low-code apps, manages integrations, and provides