System Senior Analyst

Luxoft; United States; Remote; USD 110,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Luxoft is seeking a Senior System Analyst to support Modernization as a Service (MaaS) across multiple domains in the United States. You will develop, analyze, and organize requirement specifications, data mapping, diagrams, and flowcharts for developers and testers to follow.

You will recover design and functions from code (High-Level Assembler, Cobol soon), translate non-technical needs into technical specs, and organize requirements into features and stories.

Qualifications

• Technical background is a must.
• 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.

Responsibilities

• Develop, analyze, prioritize, and organize requirement specifications, data mapping, diagrams, and flowcharts for developers and testers to follow.
• Recovering 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

BA/SA experience

Reverse engineering

Documentation in English

UML modelling

Requirements modeling

Analytical mindset

Interacting with international stakeh

Communication business/technical

Senior-level reliability

Code analysis for specs

Tools

IBM zOS

Mainframe Cobol

Microservices architecture

Job description

Project description

Modernization as a Service (MaaS) is a horizontal practice, supporting all business verticals in the company.We are looking for a Senior System Analyst who will be able to work with different domain zones.

Responsibilities

• Develop, analyze, prioritize, and organize requirement specifications, data mapping, diagrams, and flowcharts for developers and testers to follow;
• Recovering 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

• Technical background is a must;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 neededWe expect from the candidate:
• 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