Senior System Analyst

Luxoft; Bellevue (WA); On-site; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company in the technology sector is seeking a Senior System Analyst to support a project in migrating a legacy system to a cloud-based environment. The successful candidate will play a crucial role in defining requirements and optimizing processes within a dynamic team, working closely with international stakeholders. Strong documentation and analytical skills are essential, along with at least three years of relevant experience.

Qualifications

• Experience in a BA/SA role for at least 3 years is mandatory.
• Ability to create concise and coherent documentation in English.
• Experience working with international stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Develop, analyze, and organize requirement specifications.
• Translate non-technical requirements into technical specifications.
• Maintain project knowledge base and optimize team processes.

Skills

Technical background

Documentation skills

Analytical mindset

Understanding of requirements

Effective communication

Education

3+ years experience in BA/SA role

Tools

UML

Job description

Project description

Application Modernization Practice is a horizontal practice supporting all business verticals in Luxoft. We are looking for a Senior System Analyst capable of working across different domain zones. The project involves migrating a legacy system written in HLASM (High-Level Assembler) from mainframe to a cloud-based Java environment for one of the largest banks in the USA.

Responsibilities

• Develop, analyze, prioritize, and organize requirement specifications, data mapping, diagrams, and flowcharts for developers and testers.
• Recover the design, requirement specifications, and functions of a system from code analysis (currently High-Level Assembler, future Cobol).
• Translate non-technical requirements into clear technical specifications.
• Convert low-level code descriptions into meaningful functional requirements.
• Organize requirements into features and stories.
• Maintain knowledge base for the system and project.
• Participate in optimizing internal team processes.
• Mandatory work from the office 5 days per week.

Skills

Must have

• Technical background; readiness to dive into High-Level Assembler code to reverse engineer requirements.
• Ability to provide concise, coherent documentation in English (targeting native speakers).
• Capability to enhance requirements with models and diagrams as needed.
• At least 3 years of experience in a BA/SA role.
• Analytical mindset.
• Understanding of and practical experience with different types of requirements and their representations.
• Good understanding of non-functional requirements.
• Ability to communicate effectively in both business and technical languages.
• High level of seniority when handling complex tasks.
• Experience analyzing and documenting integrations.
• Experience working with international stakeholders (USA, UK).
• Knowledge of analytical tools such as functional/non-functional requirements, use cases, user stories, UML.

Nice to have

• Experience with IBM zOS mainframe.
• Understanding of IBM High-Level Assembler, COBOL.
• Experience with microservices architecture, message brokers.