Senior Business System Analyst - Avalara

We’re building cloud-based tax compliance solutions to handle every transaction in the world. Imagine every transaction you make — every tank of gas, cup of coffee, or pair of sneakers, every movie ticket, meal kit, or streamed song, every sensor-to-sensor ping. Nearly every time you make a purchase, physical or digital, there’s an accompanying unique and nuanced tax compliance calculation.

POSITION:     Senior Business System Analyst

WORK LOCATION:  Durham, NC. Telecommuting permitted from anywhere within the U.S.

JOB DUTIES: Analyze complex business problems to be solved with automated systems. Identify gaps and provides technical expertise in business requirements for system functional specifications and scale new and current systems, processes and procedures in a cost effective manner. Configure system settings and options; plan and execute unit, integration and acceptance testing to meet business requirements. Design details of automated systems. May provide consultation to users in the area of automated systems. Work with cross-functional teams to support and maintain solutions and address business or systems issues in an enterprise-wide production system using agile principles and methodologies. Respond to a broad range of service requests by engaging with end users to investigate, diagnose, and resolve their concerns. Telecommuting permitted from anywhere within the U.S.

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS:

• Bachelor’s or foreign equivalent degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or related field
• 5 years of progressive, post-baccalaureate experience in a Computer Systems Analyst-related occupation, including 5 years of experience in each of the following:
  • ServiceNow administration and development
  • Working with offshore teams
  • Creating dashboards for performance analytics
  • Developing and customizing ITIL modules
  • Developing Web Services using REST and SOAP
  • Software development life cycle, including requirements gathering, analysis, design, coding, testing, production support, and documentation
  • Using JavaScript, AngularJS, and SQL

 All experience may be gained concurrently.

We’re Avalara. We’re defining the relationship between tax and tech. 

We’ve already built an industry-leading cloud compliance platform, processing nearly 40 billion customer API calls and over 5 million tax returns a year. 

Last year, we became a billion-dollar business, and our tribe expanded by a cool thousand people - there’s nearly 5,000 of us now.  Our growth is real, and we’re not slowing down - not until we’ve achieved our mission - to be part of every transaction in the world.

We’re bright, innovative and disruptive, like the orange we love to wear.  It captures our quirky spirit and optimistic mindset. It shows off the culture we’ve designed, that empowers our people to win. Ownership and achievement go hand in hand here. We instill passion in our people through the trust we place in them.

We’ve been different from day one. Join us, and your career will be too.

EEO Statement

We’re an Equal Opportunity Employer. Supporting diversity and inclusion is a cornerstone of our company — we don’t want people to fit into our culture, but to enrich it. All qualified candidates will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, creed, religion, age, gender, national orientation, disability, sexual orientation, US Veteran status, or any other factor protected by law. If you require any reasonable adjustments during the recruitment process, please let us know.