Business Analyst at The Computer Merchant, LTD.

Boston, MA 02108

About the Job

JOB TITLE: Senior Business Analyst
JOB LOCATION: Boston, Ma.
WAGE RANGE*: 70-75
JOB NUMBER: RFR-FY25-001

REQUIRED EXPERIENCE:

Minimum of five years in a Business Analyst role with implementation experience in one or more of the following disciplines: large scale data integration across platforms, application development, application programming interfaces (APIs) or database management.
Exposure to technical configurations, technologies, and processing environments in one or more projects of similar size and complexity to BEST.
Demonstrated experience in implementing successful data integration projects.
Demonstrated experience in business integration solutions with different interface types: batch interfaces, near real time interfaces, and real time interfaces.
Demonstrated experience within a highly regulated operational environment.
Knowledge of structured data, such as entities, classes, hierarchies, relationships, and metadata.
Experience of database management system (DBMS) implementation, including tables, joins, SQL querying, and JSON.
Experience establishing data from multiple sources to support analysis needs.
Ability to quickly familiarize oneself with the use cases, business purposes and quality of the data.
Exposure with data modeling.
Demonstrated communication and interpersonal skills.

JOB DESCRIPTION

Integration Sr. Business Analyst will be part of a team of System Integration (SI) staff and product vendor and Program staff that will design and implement tasks necessary to transition existing interfaces or implement new data-sharing strategies for the new cloud Financials solution. The team will be responsible for business alignment and transition assurance, activities in the areas of data integration, including developing integration transition support materials, requirements, and tasks to accomplish the Team's objectives as part of the overall implementation of the new Financials solution. This position will be responsible for ensuring that each existing interface business team / organization understands their role during this transition and feels like they have the support necessary to ensure success.

Confer with user community to conduct research and analysis to formulate and define data integration requirements, scope, timing, and objectives.
In conjunction with the BEST Program systems integration (SI) vendor:

Provide options for data integration other than the current interface landscape.
Support detailed mapping specifications from which integration software will be written or programmed.
Develop "integration materials” that allow business teams of the interfacing agencies to understand current and future interface solutions, such as process flows, support models, data, and testing approaches.
Support agencies on their inbound interfaces that will be certified with the new solution.
Review existing specifications for unique interfaces with the agency owning the interface to highlight modifications in the system specifications of the new solution.

Provide complete documentation for new or modified integration protocols and processes, including operational procedures and manuals as needed.
Support unit, system, integration, conversion, or other testing of integration deliverables.
Support the SI and product vendors in building unique interfaces in partnership with the agency application owner and in testing and certification of the interface for use with the new solution.

Equal Opportunity Employer Veterans/Disabled

* While an hourly range is posted for this position, an eventual hourly rate is determined by a comprehensive salary analysis which considers multiple factors including but not limited to: job-related knowledge, skills and qualifications, education and experience as compared to others in the organization doing substantially similar work, if applicable, and market and business considerations. Benefits offered include medical, dental and vision benefits; dependent care flexible spending account; 401(k) plan; voluntary life/short term disability/whole life/term life/accident and critical illness coverage; employee assistance program; sick leave in accordance with regulation. Benefits may be subject to generally applicable eligibility, waiting period, contribution, and other requirements and conditions.