Senior Cloud Delivery and Systems Analyst (Remote)

The Cigna Group; Manchester (NH); On-site; USD 123,984 - 130,872; Part time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical

Dental

Vision

401K

Job summary

This is a 6-month to 1-year contract for a Systems Analyst / Technical Delivery Analyst, fully remote, contracted through Magnit. The role supports Cloud and Platform Engineering, translating business needs into well-defined epics, features, and stories.

Ideal candidates have 7+ years in systems analysis, strong documentation skills, and experience with Agile delivery and cross-functional collaboration. AWS and microservices knowledge is a plus.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of experience as a Systems Analyst, Business Systems Analyst, Technical Analyst, Product Analyst, or Technical Project Manager.
• Experience writing detailed user stories, acceptance criteria, and technical requirements.
• Ability to decompose large initiatives into executable work items.
• Experience working within Agile delivery teams.
• Strong communication and stakeholder management skills.
• Experience documenting complex technical systems and workflows.
• Ability to independently drive requirements gathering sessions.

Responsibilities

• Gather requirements from stakeholders, architects, engineering teams, and leadership.
• Analyze and decompose complex initiatives into epics, features, stories, and tasks.
• Define acceptance criteria that enable engineers to execute work with minimal ambiguity.
• Ensure stories are implementation-ready before entering delivery backlogs.
• Identify gaps, dependencies, assumptions, risks, and unanswered questions.
• Document current-state and future-state architecture.
• Create process flows, system interaction diagrams, and service dependency documentation.
• Maintain project documentation and technical runbooks.
• Develop solution overviews that clearly communicate scope and expected outcomes.
• Understand interactions between microservices, APIs, databases, messaging platforms, cloud infrastructure, and supporting services.
• Analyze service dependencies and identify impacts across systems.
• Assist with application and platform onboarding efforts.
• Support architecture review discussions by documenting findings and recommendations.
• Track project deliverables and cross-team dependencies.
• Facilitate discussions between business, application engineering, and platform teams.
• Drive requirement clarification and stakeholder alignment.
• Support planning activities, backlog refinement, and prioritization sessions.
• Improve consistency of intake requests and story quality.
• Establish repeatable documentation and requirements management practices.
• Help create standards for acceptance criteria and work decomposition.
• Contribute to governance and delivery process improvements.

Skills

Requirements Analysis

Story Development

Agile Delivery

Stakeholder Management

Technical Documentation

Independent Facilitation

Education

Advanced degree in CS or related

Tools

Jira

Confluence

DevOps

Job description

This is a 6-month to 1-year contract for a Systems Analyst / Technical Delivery Analyst, fully remote, contracted through Magnit. The role supports Cloud and Platform Engineering, translating business needs into well-defined epics, features, and stories.

Ideal candidates have 7+ years in systems analysis, strong documentation skills, and experience with Agile delivery and cross-functional collaboration. AWS and microservices knowledge is a plus.