System Senior Analyst

Luxoft; United States; Remote; USD 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a Senior System Analyst to join their Application Modernization Practice. This role involves working on a significant project to migrate a legacy system from High-Level Assembler to a cloud-based Java environment for a major bank in the USA. The ideal candidate will possess a strong analytical mindset, excellent documentation skills, and the ability to communicate effectively with both technical and business stakeholders. If you're ready to tackle complex tasks and contribute to a transformative project, this is an exciting opportunity for you.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of experience in a BA/SA role.
• Ability to reverse engineer requirements from High-Level Assembler code.

Responsibilities

• Develop and organize requirement specifications and flowcharts for developers.
• Translate non-technical requirements into clear technical specifications.

Skills

High-Level Assembler

Analytical mindset

Documentation skills

Business analysis

Communication skills

Understanding of non-functional requirements

Experience with analytical tools

Experience with COBOL

Microservices architecture

Message brokers

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 who will be able to work with different domain zones. For this project, we have an ambitious goal to migrate a legacy system written in HLASM (High-Level Assembler) from the 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 to follow;
• Recover the design, requirement specifications, and functions of a system from an analysis of its code (currently High-Level Assembler, Cobol in the nearest future);
• 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 the project;
• Participate in the optimization of internal team processes.

SKILLS

Must have

• Must be ready to deep dive into High-Level Assembler code to reverse engineer requirements;
• Must be able to provide concise and coherent documentation in English (target audience is native speakers);
• Must be able 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 representation;
• Good understanding of non-functional requirements;
• Ability to communicate in both business and technical languages;
• High level of seniority when dealing with complex tasks;
• Experience in analyzing and documenting integrations;
• Experience of working on projects with international stakeholders (USA, UK);
• Good theoretical and practical knowledge of analytical tools (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.