Senior System Analyst

Role Overview

• Partner with decision makers, stakeholders, and end users to define goals, requirements, user stories, and outcomes—ensuring the technical roadmap aligns with organizational needs
• Develop strong business cases, identify effective technology approaches, and guide product strategies that reduce technical debt, meet regulatory requirements, and deliver meaningful value.
• Lead workshops, build use cases, and create detailed specifications that clarify and refine user and system requirements.
• Oversee configuration, workflows, permissions, reporting, data, upgrades, and critical platform functions supporting financial, compliance, and product operations.
• Translate business needs into vendor requirements, maintain productive vendor relationships, and ensure timely , accurate delivery of enhancements.
• Drive test planning, troubleshooting, defect resolution, and user acceptance activities to ensure successful system implementations.
• Manage patches, upgrades, configuration changes, and disaster recovery planning across in-house , SaaS, PaaS, and third-party systems.
• Break down long-term strategies into actionable objectives and support teams through process, people, and system impact assessments.
• Provide system administration support, improve performance, maintain documentation, troubleshoot issues, and lead lifecycle planning.
• Ensure cybersecurity, data privacy, and regulatory standards are incorporated across all technical solutions.
• Monitor system behavior, identify variances, and proactively implement improvements to support stability, scalability, and efficiency.
• Create user guides, technical documents, and facilitate walkthroughs and demos for stakeholders.
• Support colleagues by sharing knowledge, tools, and best practices.
• Provide expert insight across multiple products and high impact initiatives.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in a technical/related discipline required , or equivalent work or education related experience.
• Minimum seven years of experience working with business software applications
• Solid understanding of cloud computing principles and hands-on experience with Microsoft Azure services.
• Proficiency in microservices and API architecture, including REST, GraphQL , service contracts, versioning, and interoperability considerations.
• Advanced skills with SQL and/or various relational database concepts and languages required , including multiple methods for analyzing, reporting and validating data at the source ( eg. SQL queries)
• Experience in developing and delivering the full system development life cycle and its various phases (including user story creation, test planning, test execution, CI/CD pipeline support, production implementation and break-fix production issue resolution)
• Demonstrated experience with multiple methods for creating and communicating strong business cases, including financial analysis, strategic alignment, and risk analysis.

Tech Stack

• Azure
• Cloud
• Cyber Security
• GraphQL
• Microservices
• SQL

Benefits

• 401(k) Company Match (up to 3%)
• 4% annual contribution to your 401(k) by BECU
• Medical, Dental and Vision (family contributions as well)
• PTO Program + Exchange Program
• Tuition Reimbursement Program
• BECU Cares volunteer time off + donation match