Senior Lead Business Systems Analyst

Fairygodboss; Roseland (NJ); On-site; USD 110,000 - 165,000; Full time

Job summary

ADP Technology Services, Inc. in Roseland, NJ is seeking a Senior Lead Business Systems Analyst to influence executives, define requirements, and drive complex product features end-to-end.

The role emphasizes collaboration across product, IT, and business stakeholders within an Agile environment. The candidate should have a strong background in SDLC processes, documentation, and backlog management, with experience presenting to senior leaders and enabling cross-functional teams to deliver

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Information Systems, or related field plus five years of related experience.
• Master's degree with two years of related experience also acceptable.

Responsibilities

• Present to senior leaders and peers with executive presence and clear communications on milestones.
• Manage challenges and proactively seek solutions.
• Participate in SDLC planning, development, testing, reviews, and demonstrations.
• Collaborate with product owners and stakeholders to understand requirements, prioritise backlog, and groom user stories.
• Formulate product feature roadmap with product owners and SMEs.
• Develop strategic initiatives aligned with high-level business objectives.
• Conduct structured analysis per Agile SDLC and produce analysis documentation.
• Document current processes and identify optimization opportunities with developers.
• Facilitate demos and walkthroughs to gain business consensus on designs.
• Assist sprint planning, estimation, and retrospectives.
• Collaborate with scrum teams to design alternative solutions if needed.
• Assist in testing features and in estimating/scheduling product tasks.
• Support IT in troubleshooting and opportunities for improvement.

Skills

Jira

Confluence

Agile/Scrum

DevOps

APIs

Testing frameworks

Logging frameworks

MongoDB

Oracle

Postman

Splunk

Pendo

Visio

Diagramming

Test cases

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/CE/IS

Master's degree with 2 years acceptable

Tools

MongoDB

Oracle

Postman

Splunk

Job description

Applications for this role will be accepted on an ongoing basis.

Senior Lead Business Systems Analyst – Roseland, NJ

ADP Technology Services, Inc. is hiring a Senior Lead Business Systems Analyst in our Roseland, NJ location.

Job Overview

• You are empathetic to client needs and inspired by transformation and impacting millions of people every day.
• You are looking to join a dynamic, inclusive team environment with a culture of collaboration and belonging.

To thrive in this career, you need to be enthusiastic, eager to learn, and take on stretch assignments. You strive to learn new technologies and find ways to incorporate what you learn into building your results. You are curious, persistent, and at times persuasive.

Responsibilities

• Influence and inspire confidence. You are comfortable presenting to senior leaders, product owners, and peers with a compelling voice that you demonstrate through executive presence, leading change, and creating clear executive-level communications on milestone achievements.
• Manage inevitable challenges, proactively seeking solutions.
• Participate in relevant aspects of the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), including planning, construction, testing, reviews, and demonstrations.
• Work with product owners and business stakeholders to understand requirements, create features, prioritize and size the backlog, and ensure user stories are fully groomed prior to development.
• Collaborate with product owners and technical SMEs to formulate the product feature roadmap.
• Develop strategic initiatives in support of high-level business objectives.
• Conduct structured analysis according to Agile SDLC standards and prepare analysis documentation, including user stories, use cases, or other requirements documentation.
• Understand and document current processes, identify potential optimizations, and work with developers to define future state.
• Facilitate demos and walkthroughs to gain consensus from the business on design and implementation of product features.
• Assist sprint planning, estimation, and retrospectives.
• Collaborate with scrum teams to document and design alternative solutions if needed to satisfy user, business, statutory, and system requirements.
• Assist in testing the features developed by the scrum team as needed.
• Assist in estimating and scheduling product or product tasks.
• Provide assistance to the IT Organization to troubleshoot and resolve problems and explore opportunities for enhancement and improvement.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Information Systems, or related field, plus five (5) years of related experience; a Master's degree with two (2) years of related experience also acceptable.
• Two (2) years of experience with Jira, Confluence, Agile/Scrum, DevOps practices, APIs, software testing frameworks, logging frameworks, MongoDB, Oracle, or Postman, Splunk or Pendo, technical issue troubleshooting, Visio, Envision Design/Diagraming, and building and reviewing test cases for feature certification.

Benefits & Culture

• Courageous team collaboration: associates are encouraged to have difficult conversations, speak up, take ownership, and challenge ideas to find the best solution.
• Deliver at an epic scale: real user outcomes using strong judgment and good instincts; focus on simplicity, client happiness, and productivity.
• Curious learners environment: growth and elevation through smart teamwork.
• Owner & doer mindset: mission‑driven, leading change, tackling any challenge, mastering craft.
• Community giving: giving back to clients and community, supported by ADP's Philanthropic Foundation.
• Equality and equity: commitment to lasting change through actions.

A Little About ADP

We are a global leader in HR technology, offering AI and machine learning‑enhanced payroll, tax, HR, benefits, and more. We believe our people make all the difference in cultivating an inclusive culture that welcomes ideas, encourages innovation, and values belonging. ADP is committed to diversity, equity, and inclusion as a global Best Places to Work, DiversityInc® Top 50 Company, and more.

Diversity, Equity, Inclusion & Equal Employment Opportunity

ADP is committed to an inclusive, diverse and equitable workplace, and is further committed to providing equal employment opportunities regardless of any protected characteristic including race, color, genetic information, creed, national origin, religion, sex, affectional or sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, lawful alien status, ancestry, age, marital status, protected veteran status or disability. Hiring decisions are based upon ADP’s operating needs, and applicant merit including, but not limited to, qualifications, experience, ability, availability, cooperation, and job performance.

Ethics at ADP

ADP has a long proud history of conducting business with the highest ethical standards and full compliance with all applicable laws. We expect our people to uphold our values with the highest level of integrity and behave in a manner that fosters an honest and respectful workplace.