Senior Systems Analyst - AI-Driven Modernization Lead

Simon-; New York; Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical benefits

Dental benefits

Vision benefits

401(k) plan

Life insurance

Disability benefits

Tuition assistance

PTO

Job summary

Simon & Schuster US is investing in a multi-year modernization of core order management, fulfillment, partner integration, and financial transactions. The Lead Systems Analyst serves as the bridge between business operations and the engineering team, a senior role focused on understanding current behavior, validating replacements, and coordinating production cutovers.

This position works with owners across order management, distribution, EDI, and finance to document required behavior, validate

Qualifications

• 7+ years of business/systems analysis experience, including significant experience on large-scale order processing, fulfilment, or supply-chain systems.
• Experience with EDI, order processing, and shipment-confirmation processing for large-scale distribution or publishing operations — including order intake and acknowledgements, distribution/warehouse orchestration, and invoicing flows.
• Experience using AI tools for discovery and documentation — and the judgement to validate AI output against real system behaviour.
• Demonstrated ability to work effectively with both business users and engineers — eliciting requirements from operations staff in business language and defending those requirements in technical design discussions.
• Proven ability to translate business requirements into coding/solution requirements — data mappings, rule specifications, and acceptance criteria precise enough for direct implementation and test automation.
• Strong analytical writing: able to produce documentation that becomes the authoritative record of system behaviour.
• The judgement to distinguish a true business rule from a historical implementation accident.

Responsibilities

• Discovery and documentation of required functionality, production usage, business rules, interfaces, reports, and dependencies for each modernisation module, using AI-assisted analysis and documentation tooling to accelerate the work.
• Usage validation and retirement analysis of legacy programmes, jobs, reports, and interfaces to determine what is still used and needed; obtain business-owner approval for retirements.
• Requirements translation: convert business requirements into clear, testable solution requirements for engineers (data mappings, rules, acceptance criteria).
• Prioritisation with the business: run recurring reviews to translate operational pain into modernization sequencing.
• Validation and cutover sign-off: review reconciliation and parallel-run results from the business perspective; coordinate testing and sign-off.
• Stakeholder communication: explain changes, timing, and safety to business users.

Skills

7+ years of business/systems analysis

EDI & order processing

AI tools for discovery

Stakeholder communication

Translate requirements to specs

Analytical writing

Rule interpretation judgment

Tools

SQL

Batch scheduling (AutoSys)

Job description

Simon & Schuster US is investing in a multi-year modernization of core order management, fulfillment, partner integration, and financial transactions. The Lead Systems Analyst serves as the bridge between business operations and the engineering team, a senior role focused on understanding current behavior, validating replacements, and coordinating production cutovers.

This position works with owners across order management, distribution, EDI, and finance to document required behavior, validate