Business System Analyst

Athomtech, Inc. is seeking a Senior Business Systems Analyst to support the Texas Education Agency's technology initiatives aimed at improving student outcomes. This role involves advanced business systems analysis, acting as a liaison between technical teams and stakeholders, and ensuring that business needs are accurately translated into system and technical requirements.

Responsibilities:

• Elicits business, system, and technical requirements using joint application development (JAD) sessions, requirements workshops, interviews, document analysis, system reviews, data analysis, and workflow analysis. Collaborates with architects and developers to ensure documentation accurately reflects system design decisions
• Analyzes existing and proposed systems and queries databases to understand functionality and identify gaps, risks, dependencies, and opportunities for automation or improvement. Documents data definitions, business rules, validation logic, and data lineage
• Translates elicitation outcomes into clear, well-structured system requirements, functional requirements, technical requirements, data requirements, design documents, and interface specifications
• Creates and maintains process flows, system context diagrams, data flow diagrams, entity relationship diagrams (ERDs), sequence diagrams, and other UML artifacts to support solution design and communication

Requirements:

• 8 Required Experience with relational database concepts to understand how data is stored and accessed by applications
• 8 Required Experience analyzing data used in system processing and reporting to identify issues and document logic
• 8 Required Experience using SQL or query tools at a basic-to-intermediate level to retrieve, validate, and reconcile data
• 8 Required Experience leading elicitation meetings and creating well-written system and technical requirements
• 8 Required Experience documenting data requirements, rules, validation logic, and data definitions for systems and reports
• 5 Required Demonstrated strong communication and facilitation skills
• 5 Required Demonstrated strong writing and organization skills
• 5 Required Experience collaborating with developers, architects, vendors, and infrastructure teams to support SDLC
• 3 Required Experience supporting large-scale or complex information technology projects with multiple stakeholders
• 3 Preferred Documented work experience with the issue tracking software 'Atlassian Jira'
• 3 Preferred Documented work experience with the requirements management software 'Modern Requirements'
• 2 Preferred Documented experience working for or closely with TEA or another state or local education agency